Two ways to see Navigating the site:
Making Reasonable Sense of the World.
Two perspectives are needed, like binocular vision, one lens represents our past (evolution) and the other lens our present (ecology).
Your ecology – Bateson's figure;
For example, what do you see here?
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The Edge of the Sea, Rachel L. Carson Design with Nature, Ian L. McHarg The Diversity of Life, E. O. Wilson |
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What where the components of Darwin's explanatory model?
1. super fecundity –numerous offspring– excessive fertility
a. Malthus' idea:
b. potential exponential increase in daughters
2. Observed steady state or stability of populations
3. Limitation of resources due to space & carrying capacity
4. Uniqueness of the individual (resemblances)
5. Inheritance of individual variation
These 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 is a case study.
The dam pictured here blocked the migration of fish and the renewal of sediment to the lower Nile River Valley so that the once fertile Nile Delta was starved for nutrients and fisheries declined.
What do we account for vs. what do we exclude?
First Law of Ecology "connectedness"
The essential orientation of ecology is all-inclusive
“Take account of several factors at the same time”
(This is the direct opposite of limited and sequential analysis of one cause or causative factor at one time.)
Hardin criticizes “everything is connected to everything else” as not a numerate statement
and instead suggested that a better rule to apply is:
√ You can never do merely one thing.
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