Book Review: Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons, Volume 47, Number 5
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approaches to biological diversity; Hutchinson contrasted the ecological theatre with the evolutionary play. Thus Darwin sought to understand the origins of diversity among individuals and species, while ecologists such as Elton and Hutchinson have tended to concentrate on the maintenance of diversity at the species level and above. As Levin repeatedly informs us, this division of processes is largely expedient and need not reflect what is going on in nature. The ecology of the future will be one that explains selection acting at many scales of organization and therefore is made a partner of evolutionary theory. This will include describing ecological patterns using measures of fitness derived at lower levels of organization. The advantages are obvious: in place of descriptive theories of patterning, one obtains an optimality criterion upon which to base the observed order.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000