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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Etherea Island Biogeography

In the 19 sixties, eo wilson and robert m it his name came up with a theory of island bio geography. They saw that only arelvely small increase in the area of going from one island to the next resulted in a substantially faster addition in the number of species on the island. This fortunate relation between area and the numbers of species that can be save should be translated into a policy. And so when we had a natioral organization meeting in 20 16,. i went to this meeting expecting to be pilloried for suggesting such a wild sweeping perception. I was the contrary. It was s praised widely as an idea to pursue. We're beginning to more and

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