How do we use evidence to construct a clearer picture of natural systems?
What is the framework Miller uses
| Input | Throughput | Output |
| ingredients | material flows | products, outcomes |
| Sunlight and water | proteins and genes | organisms, stability |
How do the authors fit into this conception of parts functioning together to form a whole system?
| biologist | botanist | wildlife zoologist | novelist, writer |
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Amazonia
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Kalimantan
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N.
America
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Pacific
Northwest
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| Storm... | ...powerhouse | ...mountain | ...weasels. |
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lightning
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rain
forest trees
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wolf
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walk
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spiders
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photosynthesis
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deer
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woods
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biodiversity
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vegetation
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animal
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genes
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predators
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instinct
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stability
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integrity
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necessity
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what
we know
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how
we know
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what
it knows
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what
we don't know
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