id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ebl-729	Pierotti, Raymond	The Role of Myth in Understanding Nature	2016	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5829	364	57	Although Numic beliefs appear “irrational” to Western society, they are more attuned to twenty-first century ecological and evolutionary thought than balance in nature, which lay at the root of Western ecological ideas until the 1980s. From Western scientific tradition, I examine the “Balance of Nature,” which dominated ecology and conservation biology from the 1850s until the 1990s.	cache/ebl-729.pdf	txt/ebl-729.txt