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 * Relative youth of the discipline of ecology, constituent parts older than modern disipline
 * Breadth of ecology (Egerton, #1), diversity as an integrative science
 * Early ecology as an intersection between natural history and natural philosophy or "scientific natural history" (Kingsland 2004); natural history as description of nature, natural philosophy as an attempt to discern the laws of nature.(Kingsland) NH transformed in the early C19th into a "philosophical" inquiry - "a search for the laws of the history and distribution of species and, within the science of anatomy, a search for the laws of structure" (Kingsland) driven by the "Newtonian ideals of exact science". (Kingsland). Humboldt inspired by Lavoisier, conceived of "terrestrial physics" combining earth sciences with biogeography (KIngsland)