biography
| name: |
Ehrlich, Paul Ralph
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pronunciation:
[airlik]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Entomologist and ecologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. An entomologist at the University of Kansas (1953–9), he made major contributions to field research on Arctic insects and parasitic mites, then in 1959 moved to Stanford, where he performed extensive studies of butterflies. He became a crusader for the human conservation of natural resources following a 1966 trip to India, which made him aware of the ecological effects of poverty and overpopulation. His best-selling book, The Population Bomb (1968), predicted worldwide famine and advocated the concept of zero population growth. He became professor of population studies at Stanford in 1976, won Sweden's Crafoord Prize in 1990, and became a MacArthur Fellow for his work in population biology and the conservation of biological diversity. His wife, Anne (1933– ), contributes to his work, and is a director of Friends of the Earth. |
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