Abstract
AS geographers become more agreed on their province of study, they approach nearer to what might well be termed human ecology and find a field of observation that has been largely neglected in other studies. The analytical outlook, in geography as in other sciences that deal with living organisms, gives place to the more difficult synthetic outlook, which in geography is one of great complexity, because man is more concerned in improving, or at least in changing, his environment than in being dominated by it. In human ecology, the organism's reaction is far greater than in plant and animal ecology, and the risk of neglecting human influence on surroundings is a constant danger.
The Earth and Man
A Human Geography. By Dr. Darrell Haug Davis. Pp. xxiii + 675. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942.) 21s. net.
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B., R. The Earth and Man. Nature 152, 147 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152147b0
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