hexiology (n.)

"生物的发展和行为受其环境影响的历史"，1882年，由英国生物学家圣乔治·杰克逊·米瓦特（1827-1900）创造，源自希腊词汇 hexis "状态或习惯"，来自 ekhein "拥有，持有"； 在不及物用法中，意为"处于特定状态或条件"（来自 PIE 词根 *segh- "持有"）。

Every living creature has also relations with other living creatures, which may tend to destroy it, or indirectly to aid it, and the various physical forces and conditions exercise their several influences upon it. The study of all these complex relations to time, space, physical forces, other organisms, and to surrounding conditions generally, constitutes the science of hexicology (hexiology?). [Mivart]

每个生物也与其他生物有关系，这些关系可能会破坏它，或间接地帮助它，各种物理力量和条件对它产生各种影响。研究所有这些复杂的关系，包括时间、空间、物理力量、其他生物和周围条件等，构成了 hexicology（hexiology？）的科学。[米瓦特]