Talk:History of ecology

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I'd say this page is a nice start, but needs some development, especially in the second half. To me, the whole section on "Ecology comes of age" should be moved into one of the environmentalism pages (there are a bunch of redundant pages in need of merging and sorting). On my first quick reading, it looks to me like no material in "ecology comes of age" is ecology (science), but instead all is political / social / philosophical stuff. As it stands, the article does not cover the science of ecology past the 1950s or so.

Best, - Scott D. White 05:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep. CHE 16:27, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the section heading to "Ecology and environmentalism," and I expect to eventually merge all this into the environmental movement page (leaving only a brief discussion and link on this page). I've added a section heading, on modern ecology, with no text. Right now, I'm going to look around for the tag to announce "this article needs work." Best, -Scott D. White 05:16, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this should be conflated with the environmental movement. While there is considerable overlap, ecology is fundamentally something different from environmentalism. But needs work is an understatement... it's on my list of "get to it eventually," but hopefully someone who knows more than I do will attend to it first. Thanks for your input, Scott. --ragesoss 23:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] human ecology section

To me, Human ecology is really a branch of sociology and not ecology or biology. Wikipedia has a separate human ecology page already. I would propose to remove this section from the history of ecology page, perhaps leaving a link to the HE page. Best, -Scott D. White 03:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)