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Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of evolution that incorporates an understanding of the interactions between the species under consideration. The main subfields of evolutionary ecology are life history evolution, sociobiology (the evolution of social behavior), the evolution of interspecific relations (cooperation, predator-prey interactions, parasitism, mutualism) and the evolution of biodiversity and of communities. Pristine, natural environments that have been relatively unaltered by humans are of particular importance in evolutionary ecology because they constitute the environments to which any particular organism has become adapted to over time.〔Eric R. Pianka. 2011. Evolutionary Ecology. Seventh Edition - eBook. Page 6. Accessed 7 June 2014.〕 ==Evolutionary ecologists== * Charles Darwin, whose theory of natural selection is essential background to understanding evolutionary ecology and had explicitly include population dynamics; * George Evelyn Hutchinson * Robert MacArthur * Eric Pianka * Michael Rosenzweig * David Lack *R. A. Fisher whose 1930 fundamental theorem of natural selection recognised the power of rigorous application of the theory of natural selection to population biology.〔Eric R. Pianka. 2011. Evolutionary Ecology. Seventh Edition - eBook. Page 13. Accessed 7 June 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「evolutionary ecology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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