Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

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Sep 26, 2025, 6:12 pm196 ptsTrendingTop
In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo Gómez-Pompa believed tropical forests were not untouched wilderness but “landscapes of memory,” shaped for…

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