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Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin is a professor of Earth System Science at University College London and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Scholar.
Enrique Shore / Reuters
How Disease and Conquest Carved a New Planetary Landscape
Migration and a global shipping network have flattened biodiversity worldwide.
Simon L. Lewis
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Mark A. Maslin
August 24, 2018