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Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

Individual Fellow

Mark Colyvan

Field of study: Life Sciences
Residencies at STIAS: 2012 & Earlier

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Biological Laws: Analogies and Allometries
The question of whether there are laws in ecology is important.

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publication

The Dawn of Universal Ecology

Colyvan, Mark, John Damuth, Lev R. Ginzburg. 2019. The Dawn of Universal Ecology. The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/the-dawn-of-...

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