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Science 10 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5447, p. 2091
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5447.2091
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ECOLOGY:
How the Biosphere is Organized

A review by Robert May

Fragile Dominion Complexity and the Commons
Simon Levin
Helix (Perseus), Reading, MA, 1999. 264 pp. $27, C$40. ISBN 0-7382-0111-1.

Writing for a general audience, Levin argues that the biosphere is a complex adaptive system, which exhibits self-organization, diversity, non-linear interactions among parts, and feedback flows. He finds our challenge is to harness the forces that organize the biosphere rather than fruitlessly try to resist them.
The author is chief scientific advisor to the UK Government, on leave from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. E-mail: robert.may{at}zoo.ox.ac.uk

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