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Garrett James Hardin (
April 21,
1915 –
September 14,
2003) was a leading and controversial
ecologist from
Dallas, Texas, who was most known for his 1968 paper,
The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which states "You can't do only one thing", and used the ubiquitous phrase "Nice guys finish last" to sum up the "
selfish gene" concept of life and evolution.
Biography
Hardin received a B.S. in
zoology from the
University of Chicago in 1936 and a PhD in
microbiology from
Stanford University in 1941. Moving to the
University of California, Santa Barbara in 1946, he served there as Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978.
A major focus of his career, and one to which he returned repeatedly, was the issue of
human overpopulation. This led to writings on controversial subjects such as
abortion, which earned him criticism from the
political right, and
immigration and
sociobiology, which earned him criticism from the
political left. In his essays he also tackled subjects such as
conservation and
creationism.
In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "
Mainstream Science on Intelligence", an editorial written by
Linda Gottfredson and published in the
Wall Street Journal, which defended the findings on
race and intelligence in
The Bell Curve.
Hardin and his wife Jane were both members of the Hemlock Society (now
Compassion & Choices), and believed in individuals choosing their own time to die. They committed
suicide in their
Santa Barbara home in September 2003, shortly after their 62nd wedding anniversary. He was 88 and she was 81.
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