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THE author discusses theoretically the use of the A concepts of plant biology in considering human phenomena. The advances made by the human sciences in recent years may be attributed largely to the introduction of biological methods and ideas into these studies. Human ecology is an extension of this principle. It has boon defined as “the study of the spatial and temporal relations of human beings as affected by the selective, distributive and accommodative forces of the environment”.
Social Ecology:
a Critical Analysis. By Milla Aïssa Alihan. Pp. xiii + 267. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 14s. net.
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COHEN, J. Social Ecology. Nature 143, 498 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143498a0
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