An Ecological Lineage of Mind, or ELM, is a short overview of key thoughts and their original authors that have inspired, through combination, abduction or laterally extended thinking specific reasonining, concepts, or conclusions.
Rationale of the ELM is to enable others to find interesting connecting ideas 'from where we stand'. So it is a learning tool.
Of course, ELMs are perfectly graphable as Knowledge Graphs.
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Organisms have evolved a great variety of life histories, from Pacific salmon, which produce thousands of eggs at one time and then die, to human beings, who produce a few offspring over the course of decades. The theory depends on principles of evolutionary biology and ecology and is widely used in other areas of science. wikipedia 
Elaboration likelihood model is a general theory of attitude change. According to the theory's developers Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo, they intended to provide a general "framework for organizing, categorizing, and understanding the basic processes underlying the effectiveness of persuasive communications". wikipedia