The philosophy of ecology : an introduction / James Justus, Florida State University.
"In his inimitable way, G.E. Hutchinson (1965) coined the phrase "the ecological theater and the evolutionary play." At the time, the metaphor complemented other attempts to fortify the value of the synthesis of Mendelian genetics and Darwin's theory (achieved just a few decades...
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why Philosophy of Ecology?; 1. The Ecological Niche; 2. Distinctively Ecological Laws and the Reality of Biological Communities; 3. The Balance of Nature; 4. Modeling in Ecology: Representation and Reduction; 5. Biodiversity; 6. Progress in Applied Ecology; 7. Fact and Value in Applied Ecology.