Conservation biology past and present

As the Modern Synthesis rearranged the building blocks of biology, and new insights emerged from population genetics, devel- opmental genetics (heritability studies), and island biogeography in the 1960s, the application of biology in conservation was bound to shift as well.

Summary · Conservation biology emerged in the mid-1980s as a new field focused on understanding, protecting, and perpetuating biological diversity at all scales and all levels of biological organization. management, etc.). but with an explicit interdisciplinary approach that incorporated insights from the social sciences, hu- manities, and ethics.