‘Specialised animals are usually the ones that go to the wall first. The generalists inherit the earth’
- Extinct: the Irish elk, Wall to Wall Productions, 2002




Specialisation is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein



‘Wherever you have a large predatory animal, like the dinosaurs, they can become over-specialised so that when there is a catastrophe, and there is a great upheaval in the ecological balance, it is usually those over-specialised animals which go first. Its those generalist organisms which then to be better at coping with these ecological shifts.’
- Dr. Simon Braddey, Bristol University






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