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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Charles Darwin"”.
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Charles Darwin. In doing so, I examine the material inscriptions and historical particularity regarding the entangled secular and theological forms of reasoning, knowledge traditions, and temporalities that emerged in relation to the contingencies …
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Evolution in the Cornbelt : how a few special species are adapting to industrial agriculture
… new agricultural landscape. With his finches, Charles Darwin read the record of evolution in the past. In the Corn Belt, today's scientists can see evolution in real time.
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… and philosophical sources for Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Mary and Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. I connect aesthetic innovation to ethics to ask more broadly how literature can provide an affective and effective space to represent and engage scientific discourse. …
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Identification of Novel Genes Involved in Female Mating Choice
… and its inheritable nature was first remarked by Charles Darwin, we still have a poor understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern this behavior. To begin tackling this problem, I focused on a group of highly divergent genes from three closely related Drosophila species in …
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Analyzing the IT architecture landscape in the biopharma Industries
As Charles Darwin explained his theory of evolution "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent but the one that is most responsive to change". This statement holds good for the role of IT in the Biopharma world. Today the role of IT is rapidly evolving, and the …
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Quantifying the effects of airflow distortion on anemometer wind speed measurements from merchant ships
… to wind speed measurements made from the RRS Charles Darwin. <br/><br/> Experimental and CFD techniques have been used to devise scaling rules that predict the effects of the flow distortion. Both techniques have shown that the pattern of the flow distortion above the bridge scales with the …
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
… and folk. Embracing the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, Geddes proposed subtle town planning interventions as a means by which cities could adaptively respond to change over time. He advocated the employ of a graphic device, which he called his "thinking machines," and which served as a …
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
… to the Natural Laws identified by Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, and, in particular, Herbert Spencer. Positivist progress was, however, contingent upon the elimination of the pathological, amorphous 'savage lower races. Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial …
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Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism
… the origins of this theory in the work of Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel, and traces its influence in psychology from early psychoanalytic theory to late twentieth-century evolutionary neuroscience. It is argued that recapitulationism (or the “biogenetic law”) appealed to psychological …
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Genetisch programmeren en codegroei
… systemen te ontwerpen volgens de principes van Charles Darwin. Genetisch programmeren is zo een dergelijke evolutionaire optimalisatiemethode voor het automatisch creëren van computerprogramma's. Echter, wanneer genetisch programmeren wordt gebruikt om steeds complexere taken op te lossen, …
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genetisch programmeren en codegroei
… systemen te ontwerpen volgens de principes van Charles Darwin. Genetisch programmeren is zo een dergelijke evolutionaire optimalisatiemethode voor het automatisch creëren van computerprogramma's. Echter, wanneer genetisch programmeren wordt gebruikt om steeds complexere taken op te lossen, …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
<p>Even 150 years after Charles Darwin published <em>On the Origin of Species</em>, public school teachers still find themselves dealing with student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in …
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A qualitative and physical analysis of processes around the Mascarene plateau
… as there was a research cruise on board the RRS Charles Darwin during June/July 2002. However, the June/July 2002 cruise did not sample the banks of the Mascarene Plateau.
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Beyond Enlightenment: The Evolution of Agency and the Modularity of the Mind in a Post-Darwinian World
… embrace the insights that have been secured by Charles Darwin. It is a post-Darwinian evolutionary worldview that can shed some new light on these traditional problems. Two such innovations from the theory of evolution have been <em>evolutionary</em> <em>explanations</em>, which attempt to …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… historical scientists, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Fred Hoyle, Robert Oppenheimer, Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. The representations of the contemporary celebrity scientists feature associations with these famous historical figures, associations …
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Sculpture as artifice: mimetic form in the environment
… of camouflage in nature, examining essays by Charles Darwin, Abbott Thayer, Ann Elias and David Haskell, and explore its militaristic uses, focussing on the development of camouflage patterns by Roy R. Behrens, Norman Wilkinson and United States Army field manuals. I will also consider …
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Death Before the Sin of Adam: a Fundamental Concept in Theistic Evolution and its Implications for Evangelical Theology
<p>Charles Darwin established theoretically that evolution cannot operate without struggle and death. Therefore, evolution presupposes the presence of death on earth for aeons prior to the appearance of Homo sapiens. This means, for theistic evolution, that a long history of death preceded the …
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Constructing Science and Status in Charles Darwin’s Cross-Class Correspondence Network
… dissertation uses the letters exchanged between Charles Darwin and individuals of differing socio-economic statuses to examine problems of social definition and intellectual categorisation in science in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain. One means by which historians have sought to recover …
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Maternal environment and offspring physiology : the inheritance of information across a generation
… and biologists ranging from Hippocrates to Charles Darwin hypothesized that information about the environment could be passed from parents to progeny. However, in 1893, German biologist August Weismann tested these hypotheses and based on his observations concluded that information about the …
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