“There is something I do not understand here. Why are you writing about ecosystems after the world market and the whole of human history? So far I thought we were going from small to big.” And you were right, Spite We are still going from small to big. Humankind with all its global glory and a few thousand years of written history only occupies a part of Gaia’s ecosystem, which has been developing for almost 4 billion years (Schidlowski, 1988; Holland, 1997). On our seventh and last trip into Netland, we shall learn about the properties of the oldest and biggest network of all: the ecoweb.
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Csermely, P. (2009). The Ecoweb. In: Weak Links. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31157-7_11
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