"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Let me just call this top one-- Jones' torso with the left half of Shelly Kagan's brain-- let's call him Lefty.

让我叫上面的这个-,带有Shelly，Kagan左脑的Jones的躯体-,我们叫他小左。

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