Sentence examples for bionomics from inspiring English sources

In 1997 he singled out the purveyors of so-called "bionomics".

Ecology, also called bioecology, bionomics, or environmental biology, study of the relationships between organisms and their environment.

Ms. Borsook contends that many of the favorite arguments of technolibertarians come from "bionomics" -- that is, they like to use metaphors drawn from biology to explain economic behavior and endorse a decentralized free-market system.

Reduced to a bumper slogan, Ms. Borsook writes, bionomics states that "the economy is a rain forest"; in other words, it suggests that "no one can manage or engineer a rain forest, and rain forests are happiest when they are left alone to evolve, which will then benefit all the happy monkeys, pretty butterflies and funny tapirs that live in them".

Bionomics argued that economics was hopelessly wedded to the principles of mechanics, and should instead borrow ideas from evolutionary biology.