“当我带领我的年青的研究生们跋涉在雪飘的森林之中时,我总是在想:如果我不能参与缔造人类的第三次文明,我将感到于心有愧。” ——这是当今在国际上享有盛誉的“熊猫专家”、北京大学生命科学院博士生导师潘文石教授,在最近出版的学术专著《继续生存的机会》的扉页上写下的题记。当我读完这部书再次采访潘教授的时候,仍像十几年前一样, “When I led my young graduate students to the snow-covered forest, I always wondered if I could not participate in creating a third human civilization, I would feel ashamed.” - This is an internationally acclaimed “Panda expert,” Professor Pan Wenshi, a doctoral tutor at the Peking University School of Life Sciences, wrote the inscription on the front page of the recently published academic monograph “The Survival Opportunity.” When I read this book again after reading Professor Pan, still like a dozen years ago,