History of Ecological Sciences, Part 34: A Changing Economy of Nature

Click here for all previous articles in the History of the Ecological Sciences series by F. N. Egerton In 1749, when Linnaeus believed in unchanging species, he developed a static economy of nature concept, in which the organisms in nature interact with each other according to a designed plan (Egerton 2007). Later, he lost confidence that species never change, but did not rethink the economy of nature from his new perspective. After him, others...