New World New Mind " Argues that the human mind has failed to comprehend the modern world and suggests that it must be trained to notice large gradual changes as well as short sudden ones. " Argues that changing cultures and biological changes have rendered traditional ways of thinking obsolete, the authors advocate a new set of thoughts and reactions in keeping with contemporary life. " Argues that the human mind has failed to comprehend the modern world and suggests that it must be trained to notice large gradual changes as well as short sudden ones. Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of hundreds of scientific papers, and numerous books including The Population Bomb and Betrayal of Science and Reason (Island Press, 1997). His latest book is The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment, which he co-authored with his wife Anne.