Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Ecological Complexity

I like this comment from Sharon Begley's column in the June 9, 2008 issue of Newsweek:
"Biologists draw an analogy between ecosystems and airplanes. The latter can fly without some of their rivets, and the former can survive without some of their species. But in neither case can you tell how many, or which ones, are dispensable until the thing crashes."

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