No joy in discoveries of new mammal species -- only a warning for humanity, Paul Ehrlich says
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 17:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the era of global warming, when many scientists say we are experiencing a human-caused mass extinction to rival the one that killed off the dinosaurs, one might think that the discovery of a host of new species would be cause for joy. Not entirely so, says Paul Ehrlich, co-author of an analysis of the 408 new mammalian species discovered since 1993.