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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Consilience"”.
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A cause for consilience: Utilizing multiple genomic data types to resolve problematic nodes within Arthropoda and Ecdysozoa
… to resolve the relationships within Ecdysozoa, consilience of three independent phylogenetic data sets was investigated. EST and rRNA and microRNA (miRNA) data were sampled across all major ecdysozoan phyla. In particular, a major contribution of this thesis is the first time sequencing of …
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Fossil Poetry, theBirth of Geology, and the Romantic Imagination, 1790-1860
… written between 1790 and 1860 describes a 'consilience,' or synergistic relationship, between creative and scientific literatures as an engine of discovery and understanding in the nineteenth century. Poetry's exploration of the relation between the subjective and objective experiences of …
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
… intervention, and integrated explanation—via consilience, coherence, and explanatory surprise—can strengthen analogical arguments and render them evidentially credible. Across six chapters, I trace a progression from the challenges of trace degradation and superficial similarity to the …
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A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: enhancing the integration of human development and well-being in participatory environmental decision making
… of stakeholders. It explores the potential consilience of the capabilities approach and that of environmental assessment, with emphasis on the principles of justice in participatory decision making. A mixed methods approach explores, tests and evaluates a selection of five South African …
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Habitat of grace : biology, religion and the global environmental crisis
… very first to respond to E.O.Wilson's call for consilience between all branches of learning (Wilson 1998), since the unity of all knowledge is an ancient belief of the Church. Rational, passionate and updated Christianity could make a real contribution to developing some solution to the …