My presentation at AEA 2025 is an Ignite Session that gives me all of five minutes to make the case that concepts from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) can be valuable additions to how we think about how programs operate and what they accomplish. This is the one and only slide I am using. It makes the point that individual programs can be thought of as organisms and that types of similar programs can be thought of as species – all nested within ecosystems and ecological niches. I then present a table that lists some EEB constructs cross-referenced with the kinds of change that one can observe.
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