Beyond Equilibria
Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution
$117.50
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2025
Summary
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists, especially those with theoretical and mathematical leanings, have tended to dismiss historical approaches as descriptive, smacking of particularities, allowing few generalizations (or even being untestable), and even antithetical to scientific explanation. By contrast, the concept of biological equilibrium pervades every aspect of ecology and evolution, from the popular notion of the ‘balance of nature’ to sophisticated mathematical analyses of critical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192859006 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192859005 |
| Author: | Hamish G. Spencer |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 155mm x 232mm |
| Series: | Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution |
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Critics Review
…this book is a brilliant little set of considerations for those that think ‘model first’ regarding biological questions. Rather like a billiard ball, Beyond Equilibria is small, dense, and could be used as an effective weapon (academically). * Joel Gibson, The Canadian Field-Naturalist *
Hamish G. Spencer
Hamish Spencer received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics (1982) and his master’s degree in zoology (1983) from the University of Auckland. He then studied for his doctorate at Harvard University, supervised by renowned geneticist Richard Lewontin. After graduating in 1988, he moved to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Waikato, before taking up a lecturing position at the University of Otago’s Department of Zoology, wheretoday he is Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2023 he became a Fellow of the International Science Council.
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