Yazar: Gary Lease

At the time of publication, Michael E. Soule was professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests included morphological and genetic variation in natural populations of animals, island biogeography, and conservation biology. He was the founder and first president of the Society for Conservation Biology and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Gary Lease was professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served in a wide variety of chairships, including environmental studies for three years; since 1990 he also has been dean of humanities. He took his doctorate at the University of Munich in history of theology. His ongoing work is concentrated in the history of religious thought in nineteenth and twentieth century Germany and late-antiquity Mediterranean religious history. He has published extensively in those areas.