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The Background and Some Current Problems of Theoretical Ecology.- A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism.- A Note on Simberloff’s ‘Succession of Paradigms in Ecology’.- Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology.- Reply.- Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy.- Ecology — A Mixture of Pattern and Probabilism.- Useful Concepts for Predictive Ecology.- The Domain of Laboratory Ecology.- Null Hypotheses in Ecology.- The Role of Theoretical Concepts in Understanding the Ecological Theatre: A Case Study on Island Biogeography.- Randomness and Perceived-Randomness in Evolutionary Biology.- Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology?.- Natural Kinds, Natural History and Ecology.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.