Ecological Orbits

How Planets Move and Populations Grow

By: Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan

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eText | 29 April 2004

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A famous ecologist and a philosopher of science team up to offer a fresh new approach to population biology and ecology. Challenging the traditionally accepted Lotka-Volterra model, which is based on predator-prey interactions, this new model emphasizes maternal effects, specifically the significance of a mother's interest in the success of her female offspring.