Gaia's Gift Biosystems Engineering Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists

Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long recognised Professor Tinbergen's great prescience in placing the study of animal behaviour firmly in an ecological and evolutionary context nearly fifty years ago

The central element in his framework from which all else derives is ‘the theory of value’

little is known about the potential of these technologies that call for innovative and prospective analysis

Over the last year companies such as BP

Gaia's Gift Biosystems Engineering Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologistsGaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importancene. They challenged the notion of our God given centrality within the universe and within earth's evolutionary history. Yet as our continuing exploitation of earth's resources and species demonstrates, we remain wedded to the theological