Abstract

Practical ecology is the oldest area of human knowledge. Members of all primitive cultures daily demonstrate a working familiarity with the components of their immediate surroundings, and it is only through such knowledge that our ancestors were able to survive and eventually to overcome the hazards of their hostile environments. From prehistoric times, mankind has filled cave walls, pottery, clay tablets, and book pages with local natural history information. As a formal science, ecology began around the turn of the present century, and during the first three or four decades it developed a respectable, if somewhat diffuse, volume of natural history information. The 1930's and 1940's saw the

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