 Strangely enough, we can roughly date when the term ‘biodiversity’ was coined (Takacs 1996: 34–40). It occurred during the National Forum on BioDiversity sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of the Sciences 21–24 September 1986. Approximately 14,000 people attended what was a media spectacle that included the likes of Jared Diamond, Paul Ehrlich, Thomas Eisner, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Ernst Mayr, Charles D. Michener, Harold A. Mooney, Peter Raven, and E. O. Wilson. The coiner of the term is thought to be Walter G. Rosen. He said,