Michael Novacek Quotes

Without his insights, we would fail to appreciate the dangerous potentials of rapid evolution in the avian flu virus.

- Michael Novacek

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Our hope is to make it emphatically clear just how important Darwin's work is to modern science and to what we and other scientists do in everyday life. - Michael Novacek

We didn't think the issue would be as white-hot as it is right now. It kind of raised the ante for us. My sense was, let's make this show good, because people really want to see it. They need it. - Michael Novacek

We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution. - Michael Novacek