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 Darwinism & Ecology: Making Reasonable Sense of the World.    

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

a. Malthus' idea:
b. potential exponential increase in offspring
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

What do we account for vs. what do we exclude?

accountng for environmental assets

First Law of Ecology   "connectedness"

fufu

The essential orientation of ecology is all-inclusive

“Take account of several factors at the same time

 (Opposite of limited analysis)

Hardin criticizes “everything is connected to everything else” as not numerate

You can never do merely one thing.

(58)