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Published as Chapter 52 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “The stability of complex continental ecosystems was no armour against the Japanese beetle, the European gypsy moth [...]
The cult of randomness and the taboo on teleology This article is an extended version of a combination of three chapters, 5, 26, and 27, of The Way: An ecological world view by Edward Goldsmith. It was first published in this form in The Ecologist Vol. 27 No. 5, 1997, under the title “Scientific Superstitions”. [...]
Published as Chapter 53 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » ” No single organism can make use of all forms of energy and nutrient resources, attack all [...]
Published as Chapter 16 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “In animal and human behaviour, trials are not chosen randomly.” Keith Oatley “Learning takes place not simply [...]
Published as Chapter 60 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents · next chapter » “Men may make kingdoms, but the community seems to come from the hand of God.” Alexis [...]
Published as Appendix 4 of The Way: An Ecological Worldview, originally published in 1992. This text is taken from the revised and enlarged edition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1998. « previous chapter · contents Mainstream science sees evolutionary change as exclusively the result of changes affecting the genes of individual living things. No other [...]
Neo-Darwinism does not provide a satisfactory explanation for evolution and however resilient it may prove to criticism, it must eventually give way to a more realistic theory. This can only occur if we abandon the reductionistic and mechanistic ‘paradigm of science’, which neo-Darwinism so faithfully reflects. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 20 No. 2, March–April [...]
This was the final outline of what would become Edward Goldsmith’s great work The Way: An Ecological Worldview (first published in 1992). Many of the key principles of ecological thinking which it discusses had already been published by Goldsmith in several different forms previously (see Related Articles on the right below). Published in The Ecologist [...]
