ecology

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When the ecology was disrupted, most life forms, dependent on that ecology - in fact a product of that ecology, died.

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  1. noun The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Also called bionomics.
  2. noun The relationship between organisms and their environment.
  3. noun The branch of sociology that is concerned with studying the relationships between human groups and their physical and social environments. Also called human ecology.

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  • One must say "almost" because the deep-sea ecology is uniformly dark, and yet sustains a surprisingly complex ecology -- witness the thermal vent communities. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
  • When the ecology was disrupted, most life forms, dependent on that ecology - in fact a product of that ecology, died. —  WordPress.com News
  • Coaxed from their classrooms to hold forth in the midst of life are Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Judith Butler, and the voluble subject of Taylor's previous doc, Slavoj Zizek, who typically steals the show by staging his rant - a critique of "ecology" - in a garbage dump. —  SF Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Marx didn't use the word "ecology" - it was coined in 1866 - but metabolism. —  Dissident Voice
  • The teams will have 13 hours (over 2 days) to produce a sugar showpiece, a plated dessert, three types of "ecology" - themed petite gateau and several other items.
 

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  1. German Ökologie : Greek oikos, house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots + German -logie, study (from Greek -logiā, -logy).
 

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