Ecology, Ethnology, and Evolution Literature Guide  Tags: biology ecology ethnology evolution  

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Welcome to the Ecology, Ethnology, and Evolution Literature Guide. 

This guide contains selected core reference and other literature finding aids for this subject area. 

Definitions:

Ecology is "the subdiscipline of biology that concentrates on the relationships between organisms and their environments; it is also called environmental biology."¹  more  

Ethnology is "the study of the characteristics of different peoples and the differences and relationships between them."²

Evolution is "the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth."³    

Also see "History of Ecology" and "Natural Selection: Introduction" from the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (requires netid/password off campus computers).  

References

1. Samuel J. McNaughton, "Ecology", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.212500 (accessed March 10, 2008).

2. "Ethnology," in The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition), Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press, 2005, http://www.oxfordreferenceonline.com (accessed March 10, 2008).

3. "Evolution," in The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition), Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press, 2005, http://www.oxfordreferenceonline.com (accessed March 10, 2008).