Dean’s Scholars Distinguished Lecture Series Presents:

The Race to Extinction

FOOD PRODUCTION VS. POPULATION GROWTH

 
  • Award-winning author Daniel Quinn and conservation biologist Alan D. Thornhill, Ph.D., show how cultural mythology obscures the causes of population growth and encourages people (including national leaders) to put their faith in utopian remedies that fly in the face of biological reality.
Daniel Quinn
  • Author of Ishmael (winner of the 1991 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award)
Alan D. Thornhill, Ph.D.
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Rice University

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Painter 3.02
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
(i.e. FREE FOOD!!!)