Food Chain

A food chain is a network of relationships between organisms, where each element acts as a consumer of the other. This term was introduced by the American biologist Charles Elton in 1927 while working on the second edition of the book Ecology, which became famous for its elegance of style and accuracy of predictions. It was written as a textbook for schoolchildren, but gained popularity in the scientific world much earlier. Elton compiled the basic ecology for the book in less than a year and a half, but the content nevertheless follows the entirety of Linnaeus's Seasons series and Darwin's Nature, published by fellow authors Alan Russell and Gerard Whately four years earlier.

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