Paul R. Ehrlich reads from his new memoir with Yale University Press, Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics. In this excerpt, Ehrlich reflects on his time as a professor at Stanford and the growing number of women faculty in the field of conservation biology. Many of the photos in this video were taken by the author, documenting his personal life, scientific research, and public advocacy.
Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics is available now at yalebooks.com.
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More about the author: Paul R. Ehrlich is cofounder of the field of coevolution and a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, and deterioration of the environmental systems that support humanity. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University. He lives in Palo Alto, CA.
All images, video, and audio in this reading were sourced from the public domain (Stanford Oval Panorama, author credit: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons).
