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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology /
"Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E.O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius." In this fascinating book, Nancy G. Slack presents for the first time the full life st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.