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Grassland Management and the Early Development of British Ecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

John Sheail
John Sheail
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Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood Experimental Station, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE17 2LS, U.K.
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Worster depicted ecology as ‘a stranger who has just blown into town’ — it had ‘a presence without a past’. In seeking to remedy this deficiency, historians have drawn attention to the fact that an interest in the relationship of wild species to their environment, and to one another, can be discerned well before the theory of evolution by natural selection was enunciated by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , November 1986 , pp. 283 - 299
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1986

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