G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology

A man so various

"The circumstances of my upbringing"

Becoming a zoologist : the hunter and gatherer

From Naples to South Africa : a failed career?

First years at Yale

Chief biologist : the Yale North India Expedition

The first crop : W.T. Edmonton, Gordon Riley, Ed Deevey, and Max Dunbar

The old and the new limnology

Radioisotopes : radiation ecology and systems ecology

Biogeochemistry : from Linsley Pond to the Guano Islands

The three wives and Yemaiel

Good friends : Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Fond correspondents : Rebecca West and Evelyn Hutchinson

From the N-dimensional niche to Santa Rosalia

Hutchinson the environmentalist

The polymath : art history and many other fields

The last years

from Yale to England

Concluding remarks: Hutchinson's legacy in ecology.