... born.¹

No, I wasn't born in the Dark Ages, just the 1950's. OK. Maybe that was the dark ages.

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... biology²

There weren't any ecology and evolutionary biology departments until the mid 1960s, so far as I am aware.

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... and systematics.³

Aldo Leopold was appointed Professor of Game Management at the University of Wisconsin in 1933, the same year he published Game Management.

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... field.⁴

It's worth noting, however, that the journal Biological Conservation began publishing in 1968. Moreover, many biologists working in resource-oriented departments have regarded what they do as conservation biology since the 1930s.

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... conservation⁵

We will obviously deal with politics to a limited extent. It's unavoidable when talking about conservation issues. Our focus, however, will be on the biological issues associated with conservation, not the political ones.

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