Christian David Thomas (born 9 September 1959) is a past president of the Royal Entomological Society. He is also Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the

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. He completed his first degree (BA) in

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, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and a

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. A Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of York, he also serves as director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, a new £10 million transdisciplinary research centre funded for 10 years from 2019. In July 2012, he was elected as a

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Selected publications

*''Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction''. 2017.

References

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