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- Title
LE COMMENSALISME : D'UN CONCEPT MORAL A UN CONCEPT SCIENTIFIQUE.
- Authors
POREAU, BRICE
- Abstract
In the book entitled Les commensaux et les parasites dans le regne animal, published in 1875, Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894), a Belgian zoologist, put forward three different biological associations: parasitism, mutualism and commensalism. The last one considers an association with two different species: one partner benefits, while the other neither benefits nor is harmed, in a kind of stable equilibrium. In the first definitions given by Van Beneden in the 1860's, the language style is not the same as we use in this definition. It is clearly an anthropomorphic point of view. Commensalism was seen then as a moral concept. In this article, we want to show the history of commensalism that transits from a "moral" concept to a scientific and biological one during the twentieth century.
- Subjects
VAN Beneden, Pierre; ZOOLOGISTS; COMMENSALISM; SOCIAL parasites; MUTUALISM; STABLE equilibrium (Physics)
- Publication
Ludus Vitalis, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 38, p53
- ISSN
1133-5165
- Publication type
Article