![]() Most importantly, their deep commitment to the ecosystem as the central concept in ecology and environmental sciences shaped their work, both independently and collaboratively. ![]() ![]() Yet, despite the differences and some sibling rivalry, they collaborated in a number of significant ways to influence the direction of modern ecology. The two brothers had contrasting personalities, intellectual perspectives, and styles of research. Despite their close identification with the study of ecosystems, both of the younger Odums maintained a strong interest in natural history throughout their careers. More generally, Howard Washington Odum encouraged his sons’ boyhood interests in science, particularly ornithology. The New Deal progressivism that their father espoused became the basis for the Odums’ optimism about protecting the environment through rational planning based on the application of ecological principles. From their father, Eugene and Howard took the idea of the integration of parts to form a larger social whole, which they later expanded in their holistic ecosystem thinking. Their father, the sociologist Howard Washington Odum, was a leading organicist thinker. ![]() ![]() They were from a prominent academic family. (b. 1924–d. 2002) Odum were leading figures in the development of ecosystem ecology after the Second World War. ![]()
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