No Joy In Discoveries Of New Mammal Species, Only A Warning For Humanity, Paul Ehrlich Says

Monday, February 16, 2009 - 18:42 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.

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