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}} | doctoral_advisor = C. D. Michener | doctoral_students = | thesis_title = The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) | thesis_year = 1957 | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7853 | known_for = ''The Population Bomb'' | prizes = }} }}2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award | spouse = | children = Lisa Marie }} Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist, best known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. Ehrlich became well known for his controversial 1968 book ''The Population Bomb'', which asserted that the world's human population would soon increase to the point where mass starvation ensued.〔〔 Among the measures he suggested in that book was population control, to be used in his opinion if voluntary methods were to fail. Ehrlich has been criticized for his views; for example, Ronald Bailey called Ehrlich an irrepressible doomster.〔 On the other hand, Carl Haub observed that Ehrlich's warnings had encouraged countries to take action to avert disaster.〔 Ehrlich has acknowledged that some of what he had written had not come about, but has restated his view that over-population remains a major problem.〔 ==Early life, education, and academic career== Ehrlich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ruth (Rosenberg) and William Ehrlich. His father was a shirt salesman, his mother a Greek and Latin scholar. Ehrlich earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, an M.A. at the University of Kansas in 1955, and a Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Kansas, supervised by the prominent bee researcher C.D. Michener. During his studies he participated in surveys of insects on the Bering Sea and in the Canadian Arctic, and then with a National Institutes of Health fellowship, investigated the genetics and behavior of parasitic mites. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Stanford University, being promoted to professor of biology in 1966. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies); he published a landmark paper about the evolution of plants and insects. He was appointed to the Bing Professorship in 1977.〔Lewis, J. "Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich. Six billion and counting". ''Scientific American'' October 2000, pages 30, 32.〕 He is president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul R. Ehrlich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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