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In the dominion of artefacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Madhav Gadgil
Affiliation:
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore 560012, India

Abstract

Evolutionary biology is above all concerned with the way life on earth and its setting change over time. The problem posed by Daily and Ehrlich, of how humans, the myriads of organisms that humans carry around in their bodies and the stage on which they interact have been changing over time, may then be viewed as one of the concerns of this discipline.

Type
Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © 1996, Cambridge University Press

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