Homo Sapiens, an Endangered Species
Mankind, now so abundant, has for long parts of its history been reduced to tiny numbers, and almost to extinction. I will talk about the evidence for this, about how we reached our present enormous abundance, and what the future of the human population might be.
Professor Steve Jones is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London and an author of several popular science books. He is one of the world's top six experts on the genetics of snails (and the other five agree) and has also studied the genetics and evolution of fruit flies and humans.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
| Homo Sapiens, an Endangered Species |
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