• Biology and ecology - Ernst Mayr
  • Population thinking
  • Plurality
  • Proximate and Ultimate causations

• Ecology and sociology
  • Sociology and fishing ecologies - Jacquie McGlade - Communicative approaches
  • Sociology and farming ecologies - Vandana Shiva - Global and local knowledge

• Mathematics and biology
  • 1860's Mendel
  • 1900's The rediscovery of Mendelian genetics
  • 1930's Synthetic theory
  • 1970-80's Motoo Kiruma - The neutral theory of molecular evolution
  • Game theory - (Richard Dawkins)

• Computation and biology
  • Neural nets
  • Autocatalysis and chaos
  • Protein computation - Dennis Bray
  • Gas nets
  • Virtual heart - Denis Noble

Translations between biology and sociology

Part I: Initial points of translation

• Formalism: a linking theme between mathematics, computation, and cultural theory
• Initial points of translation from formalism
• Conclusion: Possible grounds for translation