Alan Ternes

I found this in a bin of free books outside a used book store. It was apparently given to subscribers of Natural History magazine on its 75th anniversary, and contains articles from 1911 to 1975 that originally appeared in the magazine. Some of the information is very outdated. The articles on Peking Man and Java Man were written before it was found that they are both the same creature, Homo Erectus (or Homo Ergaster), and even question if it's a human at all, or some other form of ape. The article by Theodore Roosevelt on hunting the White Rhinoceros was somewhat sad, considering the species has recently been declared extinct. The many articles on the environment and overpopulation were prescient, however. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone interested in nature and science.… (more)