I have been fascinated with the book and the PBS documentary, both titled: The Serengeti Rules.
Molecular biologist, scientist writer, and gifted story-teller Sean B.Carroll, proposes that complex biological systems are regulated by rules. The first hundred pages cover a century or more of science in physiology, genetics, and neuroscience to discern the rules that operate on a molecular level. The rest of the book covers about seventy years of work in ecology that led to defining rules on how the number of species and their populations are regulated in various environments: oceans, rivers, forests, the Serengeti. PBS Nature picked up on this part of the book and produced a most interesting documentary. It has gotten me thinking a little differently about Bowen theory. Trying to be careful about drawing parallels between how biological systems are regulated, and how the family is regulated, I am interested in thinking further on this. I welcome ideas from my fellow Bowen scholars. As a first step, I have written a blog for the CFC website. The link is: