IN THE EARLY 1680s, at just about the time that Edmond Halley and his friends ChristopherWren and Robert Hooke were settling down in a London coffeehouse and embarking on thecasual wager that would result eventually in Isaaewton’s Principia , Henry dish’sweighing of the Earth, and many of the other inspired and endable uakings thathave occupied us for much of the past four hundred pages, a rather less desirable milestonewas being passed on the island of Mauritius, far out in the Indian O some eight hundredmiles off the east coast of Madagascar.
There, some fotten sailor or sailor’s pet was harrying to death the last of the dodos, thefamously flightless bird whose dim but trusting nature and lack of leggy zip made it a ratherirresistible target for bored young tars on shore leave. Millions of years of peaceful isolationhad not prepared it for the erratid deeply unnerving behavior of human beings.
We don’t know precisely the circumstances, or even yea……（内容加载失败！）
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