Questioning chance -- Chance in living systems -- Lessons for managing living systems -- The contribution of models and modelling : some examples -- Biodiversity and ecological theories -- Chance and evolution -- Evaluating biodiversity : the example of French Guiana
Summary
Chance is necessary for living systems - from the cell to organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. It is at the heart of their evolution and diversity. Long considered contingent on other factors, chance both produces random events in the environment, and is the product of endogenous mechanisms - molecular as well as cellular, demographic and ecological. This is how living things have been able to diversify themselves and survive on the planet. Chance is not something to which Life has been subjected; it is quite simply necessary for Life. The endogenous mechanisms that bring it abo
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index
