“Suppose there were discovered relicted populations in the forests of Africa between humans and chimpanzees. What would we do, what would those speciesists do, if a live specimen of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) were to be discovered? It’s a pure accident that they’re extinct. We ought to do be able to do something about our morals and our ethics taking account of the fact that they might not have been extinct. This major ethical distinction should not depend upon the mere accident of extinction.”

— Richard Dawkins in Speciesism: The Movie (2013)