Changing Man's Habitat: Physical and Biological Phenomena

Abstract

Dr. Sears is Chairman of the Conservation Program and Professor of Botany at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and for 1953-1955 is also Chairman of the Department of Plant Science. He has been Presi? dent of the Nebraska Academy of Science, Ohio Academy of Science, Ecological Society of America, and is President-elect (for 1957) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, His present research interests are on Pleistocene vegetation, pollen analysis, and applied ecology. His works include: Deserts on the March, 1935; This Is Our World, 1937; and Charles Darwin, the Naturalist as a Cultural Force, 1950.