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There is no doubt a reclusive aspect to the practice of science: Darwin in retreat at Down House, far from the hubbub of London, patiently studying barnacles; young Newton secluded in the countryside to avoid the plague in Cambridge, contemplating and calculating gravity. Consider as well the anonymous toilers, cloistered for interminable days in laboratories, or (as in my case) in offices hunched over computers. Then, too, there are naturalists, alone in the wild, patiently recording an animal’s movement. Every so often, however, the scattered tribe must unite.
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Volk, T. (1998). Worldwide Metabolisms. In: Gaia’s Body. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2190-6_5
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