The Age of Extinction and the Age of Existence

The Greatest Mistake in History — And Why We’re Still Making it

40,000 year old handprints, believed to have been made by Neanderthals, in El Castillo Cave, Spain. Image Credit: Pedro Saura

When it’s late at night — 4AM — I go to the window to sneak a cigarette. Snowy wakes up, and trots over — even though I say “It’s OK, buddy. Just rest!” He noses my leg aside, sits in his favorite spot underneath the sill, and looks up at me, sleepily. Dad, seriously? It’s 4AM…