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3rd article that shaped my career: “Is an environmentally sustainable future for the European Community compatible with continued growth: carbon dioxide and the management of greed.” Slesser, 1993

I bumped into this article completely by chance. My former lab had a subscription of the journal ‘Science of the Total Environment’, and one day, while I was organizing the issues in a shelf, this one felt in front of me open at this article page. The title called my eye. I started to read […]

2nd article that shaped my career – “Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History” Ludwig, Hilborn & Carl, 1993

Paul Kinas, professor os Statistics at FURG, introduced this article to me during his grad school course on Bayesian statistics. It is impressive how much I learned from Kinas and how many times I mention him throughout my scientific life. There are currently many plans for sustainable use or sustainable development that are founded upon […]

1st article that shaped my career: “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” – Gould & Lewontin, 1979

Euclydes Santos used this article during his course ‘Physiological adaptations to estuarine environment’, in graduate school. I seriously doubt that, even with all the interest that I have for everything that is Gould’s or Lewontin’s, I would bump into it if it wasn’t for him. So, thank you (again) Euclydes (The) adaptationist program (…) is […]