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Economics from a Biological Viewpoint
Abstract
THE field variously called population biology, sociobiology, or ecology is concerned to explain the observed interrelations among the various forms of life--organisms, species, and broader groupings and communities-and between forms of life and their external environments. The subject includes both material aspects of these interrelations (the geographical distributions of species in relation to one another, their respective numbers, physical properties like size differences between the sexes) and behavioral aspects (why some species are territorial while others flock, why some are monogamous and others polygamous, why some are aggressive and others
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hirshleifer, J.
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1977-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-52
- ISSN
- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
- OpenAlex
- W2032706496
- Cited by
- 577
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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