During his studies he participated with surveys of insects in the areas of the Bering Sea and Canadian arctic, and then with a National Institutes of Health fellowship, investigated the genetics and behavior of parasitic mites. from the University of Kansas in 1957, supervised by the prominent bee researcher Charles Duncan Michener (the title of his dissertation: 'The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)'). from the University of Kansas in 1955, and a Ph.D.

Įhrlich earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, an M.A. During his childhood his family moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, where he attended Columbia High School, graduating in 1949. Ehrlich's mother's Reform-Jewish German ancestors arrived in the United States in the 1840s, and his paternal grandparents emigrated there later from the Galician and Romanian part of the Austrian Empire. His father was a shirt salesman, his mother a Greek and Latin scholar and public school teacher. Early life, education, and academic career Įhrlich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William Ehrlich and Ruth Rosenberg. Ehrlich has acknowledged that some of what he predicted has not occurred but maintains that his predictions about disease and climate change were essentially correct and that human overpopulation is a major problem. For example, Ronald Bailey termed Ehrlich an 'irrepressible doomster'.

Ehrlich has been criticized for his approach and views. Ehrlich, in which they famously stated that 'n the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.' Among the solutions suggested in that book was population control, including 'various forms of coercion' such as eliminating 'tax benefits for having additional children,' to be used if voluntary methods were to fail. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and President of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.Įhrlich became well known for the controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb which he co-authored with his wife Anne H. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) (1957)

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