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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology
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Title
G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology / Nancy G. Slack ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.
ISBN
9780300161380 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xviii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A man so various
"The circumstances of my upbringing"
Becoming a zoologist : the hunter and gatherer
From Naples to South Africa : a failed career?
First years at Yale
Chief biologist : the Yale North India Expedition
The first crop : W.T. Edmonton, Gordon Riley, Ed Deevey, and Max Dunbar
The old and the new limnology
Radioisotopes : radiation ecology and systems ecology
Biogeochemistry : from Linsley Pond to the Guano Islands
The three wives and Yemaiel
Good friends : Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
Fond correspondents : Rebecca West and Evelyn Hutchinson
From the N-dimensional niche to Santa Rosalia
Hutchinson the environmentalist
The polymath : art history and many other fields
The last years
from Yale to England
Concluding remarks: Hutchinson's legacy in ecology.
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