tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17262131.post115805513063138454..comments2023-09-30T21:01:03.664+01:00Comments on El Gentraso: The British Ecological Society, and why ecology is unpopularJohn Whitfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07808639289887327978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17262131.post-1158693121678742482006-09-19T20:12:00.000+01:002006-09-19T20:12:00.000+01:00I liked your blog and this article reminded me, in...I liked your blog and this article reminded me, in an admittedly elliptical way, of Darwin's famous 'tangled bank' quote. As I recall (OK, Googled), he wrote <I>It is interesting...to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.</I><BR/><BR/>Although I presume that Darwin's focus was on the laws acting to produce the <I>elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other</I>, a little wilful misreading hints that the laws acting to make things <I>dependent upon each other in so complex a manner</I> are also implicit in Darwin's passage. So ecology might be unpopular now, but people have been ignoring it for ages...<BR/><BR/>All the best with the book, by the way!<BR/><BR/>P.S. That was a bit pretentious, wasn't it? Ah, heck, I'm a comment virgin - go easy on me...postbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17452493585178844137noreply@blogger.com