From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 15:23:31 MDT
The following futurist discussion seems completely
clueless to me. Humanity and its descendants will change
so fast that they will completely dominate changes in the
biosphere. Within a thousand years, there probably won't
be a substantial biosphere that we would recognize.
>Papers from the National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on The Future of
>Evolution: 8 May 2001; Vol. 98, No. 10
>URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/vol98/issue10/index.shtml
>
>The biotic crisis and the future of evolution
> Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll
> PNAS 2001;98 5389-5392
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5389
>
>
>Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions
> David Jablonski
> PNAS 2001;98 5393-5398
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5393
>
>
>Lessons from the past: Biotic recoveries from mass extinctions
> Douglas H. Erwin
> PNAS 2001;98 5399-5403
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5399
>
>
>Loss of speciation rate will impoverish future diversity
> Michael L. Rosenzweig
> PNAS 2001;98 5404-5410
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5404
>
>
>What was natural in the coastal oceans?
> Jeremy B. C. Jackson
> PNAS 2001;98 5411-5418
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5411
>
>
>The future of coral reefs
> Nancy Knowlton
> PNAS 2001;98 5419-5425
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5419
>
>
>Disrupting evolutionary processes: The effect of habitat fragmentation on
>collared lizards in the Missouri Ozarks
> Alan R. Templeton, Robert J. Robertson, Jennifer Brisson, and Jared
> Strasburg
> PNAS 2001;98 5426-5432
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5426
>
>
>Human-caused environmental change: Impacts on plant diversity and evolution
> David Tilman and Clarence Lehman
> PNAS 2001;98 5433-5440
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5433
>
>
>Plant biology in the future
> F. A. Bazzaz
> PNAS 2001;98 5441-5445
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5441
>
>
>The evolutionary impact of invasive species
> H. A. Mooney and E. E. Cleland
> PNAS 2001;98 5446-5451
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5446
>
>
>Rapid plant diversification: Planning for an evolutionary future
> R. M. Cowling and R. L. Pressey
> PNAS 2001;98 5452-5457
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5452
>
>
>Human-modified ecosystems and future evolution
> David Western
> PNAS 2001;98 5458-5465
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5458
>
>
>The current biodiversity extinction event: Scenarios for mitigation and
>recovery
> Michael J. Novacek and Elsa E. Cleland
> PNAS 2001;98 5466-5470
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5466
>
>
>Declines of biomes and biotas and the future of evolution
> David S. Woodruff
> PNAS 2001;98 5471-5476
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5471
>
>
>Intervening in evolution: Ethics and actions
> Paul R. Ehrlich
> PNAS 2001;98 5477-5480
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/10/5477
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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