A case of malignant maladaptation: Human occupation of global ecosystems.

Presented at the symposium: Why Adaptation Becomes Maladaptive: The Dynamics of Population Growth and Resources. 161st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 21, 1994. San Francisco, California.

Has the human species become a cancer on the planet?

A theoretical view of population growth as a sign of pathology. Current World Leaders 36(6):1089-1124, 1993

How many times has the human population doubled? Comparisons with cancer.

Population and Environment 21(1):59-80, 1999.
Hern, W.M.

Humankind is like a global cancer

Ogle. The Edmonton Journal, Sunday, October 14, 1990 A9

Is human culture carcinogenic for uncontrolled population growth and ecological destruction?

BioScience 43(11):768-773, 1993

Latin American Immigration and Trade

Some Preliminary Observations By Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Prepared for Hon. John Salazar 3rd Congressional District Colorado, 31 March 2006

Malignant Land Use/Cover Expansion in Human Communities

Presented at the Fifteenth Annual International Symposium on Urban Form, Artimino, Italy, November 21-23; 2008.

Planetary malignancy

Holden, C. –  Science 251:1311, 1991.

Population and Peace

By Dr. Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PhD – Colorado Peace Mission Vol. 6 #5, June 1995

Urban Malignancy – Similarity in the fractal dimensions of urban morphology and malignant neoplasms.

International Journal of Anthropology 23(1-2):1-19, 2008. Malignant Land Use/Cover Expansion in Human Communities. Presented at the Fifteenth Annual International Symposium on Urban Form, Artimino, Italy, November 21-23; 2008

Water sets the limits on exponential growth.

Hern, W.M. –  The Denver Post, January 10, 1982.

Why are there so many of us?

Why are there so many of us?

Papers and conference presentations discussing the theory that the human species displays the characteristics of a malignant process. Description and diagnosis of a planetary ecopathological process. Population and Environment 12:9-39, 1990.

Warren M. Hern
University of Colorado

Man is an apparition. Eliot Porter, April 5, 1989 Tesuque, New Mexico