The Ecology Book

REDEFINE “TOOL,” REDEFINE “MAN,” OR ACCEPT CHIMPANZEES AS HUMANS USING ANIMAL MODELS TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR US_118-125_Usi ...

120 M odern molecular studies mapping the genomes of humans and other animals have confirmed a theory that was first suggested b ...

121 Goodall’s knowledge of natural history had impressed Leakey on their first meeting in 1957 and he offered her a job studying ...

122 camp, the chimps fled from her, but they then began to forget she was there. Goodall sat for many hours observing the chimps ...

123 An alpha male’s body language says “keep away” to begging chimps wanting a share of his prey in Gombe National Park. The mai ...

124 USING ANIMAL MODELS TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR Chimps may fight over territory in order to acquire more resources or mates ...

125 Bonobos are very social primates. Their capacity for empathy makes them less aggressive and may align them more closely with ...

126 I nsects are usually described as “cold-blooded,” or ectotherms. Unlike mammals and other “warm-blooded” endotherms, animals ...

127 See also: Evolution by natural selection 24–31 ■ Ecophysiology 72–73 ■ Animal ecology 106–113 ■ Organisms and their environm ...

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The journal Ecology posthumously publishes Raymond Lindeman’s article “The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology.” 1942 1935 Arthur ...

surrounded by ocean but also “islands” of distinct habitat surrounded by a very different environment—is so important in ecology ...

132 EVERY DISTINCT PART OF NATURE’S WORKS IS NECESSARY FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE REST THE FOOD CHAIN IN CONTEXT KEY FIGURE Richard ...

133 See also: Predator–prey equations 44–49 ■ Mutualisms 56–59 ■ Keystone species 60–65 ■ Optimal foraging theory 66–67 ■ Animal ...

134 B ritish biologist Arthur Tansley was the first to insist that communities of organisms in a particular area had to be seen ...

135 This idea had been developing long before Arthur Tansley published his influential paper on the subject in 1935. As early as ...

136 biological and physical elements of the environment. The different types of ecosystem can be defined by their physical envir ...

137 The Eden Project, in Cornwall, UK, simulates a rain forest ecosystem in one of its giant dome greenhouses. The domes’ panels ...

138 LIFE IS SUPPORTED BY A VAST NETWORK OF PROCESSES ENERGY FLOW THROUGH ECOSYSTEMS IN CONTEXT KEY FIGURE Raymond Lindeman (1915 ...