Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

摘要

In the 1950s, the distinguished limnologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson was invited to give a seminar at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, USA. I was asked to determine the compatibility of his slides with the Academy's projector. Slide 1 was two monkeys, one holding a lantern; slide 2 was a depiction of the onset of the menstrual cycle in Swedish women; slide 3 was a sketch of a Dodo. Other slides in the group were equally unrelated.