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Rodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34

Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani

CHAPTER

Roots of Curiosity: From Cuernavaca to Ecology

This chapter chronicles the speaker's formative experiences in Cuernavaca, Mexico, emphasizing their early fascination with local biodiversity. It follows their academic transformation from a potential career in biomedicine to a dedicated pursuit of botany and evolutionary biology, enriched by fieldwork and inspired by historical scientific contributions.

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