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Darwinism & Ecology:
Making Mayr, pp. 73-84. - Hardin, pp. 53 - 69. Your ecology-- Bateson's figure; what
do you see?
Two perspectives are needed, like binocular vision, to comprehend nature. ( E. O. Wilson) What where the components of Darwin's
explanatory model?
Five facts: 1. superfecundity
2. Observed steady state or stability
of populations
3. Limitation of resources 4. Uniqueness of the individual (resemblances) 5. heritability of individual variationThese five facts are the basis of biological wealth or life's diversity. Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution Ecology as the study of unanticipated “side effects." Aswan High Dam
First Law of Ecology "connectedness"
The essential orientation of ecology is all-inclusive
(Opposite of limited analysis)
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