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Not all naturalists want to do science; many take refuge in nature's complexity as a justification to oppose any search for patterns.... Doing science is not such a barrier to feeling or such a dehumanizing influence as is often made out. It does not take the beauty from nature.

Robert H. MacArthur

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts, and to do the science of geographical ecology is to search for patterns of plants and animal life that can be put on a map.

Robert H. MacArthur

Robert H. MacArthur

Robert H. MacArthur

Born: April 7, 1930

Died: November 1, 1972 (aged 42)

Bio: Robert Helmer MacArthur was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology.

Known for:

The Theory of Island Biogeography (1967)
On This Patient Rock
The biology of populations (1966)

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