…reading a profile of Mark Plotkin that was published in the New York Times in 1999. And there was an interview with Wade Davis where he made a comment saying something along the lines of, that the low-hanging fruit had already been picked, that the…

…that we live in a world of almost infinite biodiversity and we've only scratched the surface. But on the other hand, what Wade Davis said seems to be more or less true. I'm not aware of any major ethnobotanical breakthroughs that have occurred in recent…