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A man who lived three lives? A piker! Jerry Norcriss lived hundreds -- all over the Galaxy! ZOOLOGY 2097
Trial-and-error familiarization with new life-forms is dangerously impractical on a far planet, where the representation of Earth men may be a solitary five-man crew. The loss of even a single man constitutes, in effect, obliteration of one-fifth of that planet's Earth-population. This is the "why" of the Space Zoologist.