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Life and Mind
This volume provides a broad overview of some cutting-edge philosophical topics of growing interest at the juncture between cognitive science and biology. The main goal is not to integrate the variety of approaches into a single account, but rather to offer diverse perspectives on a collection of selected biological issues of particular philosophical relevance, reflecting the plurality of current research in these areas. Four conceptual vectors give this volume its coherence: Animal and human cognition: With respect to animal cognition, this volume focuses on self-awareness and methodological flaws in the science of animal consciousness. Regarding human cognition, the authors of this volume ...
Evolution "On Purpose"
A unique exploration of teleonomy—also known as “evolved purposiveness”—as a major influence in evolution by a broad range of specialists in biology and the philosophy of science. The evolved purposiveness of living systems, termed “teleonomy” by chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh, has been both a major outcome and causal factor in the history of life on Earth. Many theorists have appreciated this over the years, going back to Lamarck and even Darwin in the nineteenth century. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the complex, dynamic process of evolution was simplified into the one-way, bottom-up, single gene-centered paradigm widely known as the modern synthesis. In Evolution ...
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The Nassau Herald
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El origen de las especies
«Estoy plenamente convencido de que las especies no son inmutables, sino que las que pertenecen a lo que se conoce como un mismo género son descendientes directas de alguna otra especie por lo común extinta, de igual modo que las variedades reconocidas de una especie cualquiera son descendientes de esa especie. Es más, estoy convencido de que la selección natural ha sido el mecanismo principal de modificación, aunque no el único.» La publicación de la primera edición de El origen de las especies en 1859 no sólo sacudió los cimientos de la ciencia natural, abriendo un nuevo camino para todas las disciplinas que se agrupaban bajo ese amplio sello y facilitando el nacimiento de much...
Biography Index
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
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