A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
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The Evolution of Ecology and Evolution
During the 50s and 60s, I think there was a lot of debate about just among ecologists to try to explain the phenomenon that they saw. It was very strictly a mechanistic interpretation of what regulated populations through, for example, rainfall. They viewed those explanations as very distinct from any kind of evolutionary explanation. And so when reading Ernst Meyer's descriptions of the big meeting that sort of led to the coining of the term modern synthesis, he makes some comment about how they invited developmental biologists and physiologists to attend the meeting and nobody was interested.
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