In a 1973 essay with the same name, geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky made famous the idea that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. From a careful reading of The Serengeti Rules, one could also argue that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of regulation. Do you agree or disagree with this claim

I agree with this claim because organisms interact with one another in an ecosystem, thereby regulating population sizes in the community.

The Serengeti Rules is a documentary film based on biologist Sean B. Carroll's book (2017). This book explains the balanced functioning of an ecosystem by exploring the discoveries of five pioneering scientists: Mary Power, Bob Paine, Tony Sinclair, John Terborgh, and Jim Estes. The term 'Serengeti rules' is due to many of these rules were obtained by studying natural populations in the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). These rules are a set of simple ecological rules of nature that indicate how ecosystems work.  The Serengeti rules explain how organisms interact with one another in the ecosystem, thereby regulating population sizes in the community. Some key concepts of the Serengeti rules are as follow: Keynote species is a type of species whose activities govern the wellbeing of other species in the ecosystem. A trophic cascade is a phenomenon by which species impact other species even when they do not directly interact with each other. Downgrading refers to cascading effect of the removal of a species at the top of a food web (e.g., predators)

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