Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born 29 May 1932) is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies), but he is better known as an ecologist and for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources. Ehrlic...
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Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born 29 May 1932) is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies), but he is better known as an ecologist and for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources. Ehrlich became a household name after publication of his 1968 book The Population Bomb, in which he warned of the dangers of mass starvation during the 1970s and 1980s due to growing population - this is interpreted as unfulfilled predictions by critics.
Ehrlich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelors degree in zoology from the the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, an M.A. at the University of Kansas in 1955, and a Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Kansas, under the prominent bee researcher C.D. Michener. During his studies...
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