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Showing 1 to 20 of 177 for “"Darwin"”.
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Du Bois meets Darwin
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… analyse both the course and the effects of the Darwin debate in Dublin during the first fifty years after the landmark publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of species in 1859. Darwin’s hypothesis that species evolved gradually over time by a process of natural selection was so vastly contrary …
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Darwin in context: the London years, 1837-1842
This thesis explores Darwin's life in London in the context of the social relationships he formed there. Recent studies have highlighted the paradox between his speculative work, with its dangerous associations with political radicalism and infidelity, and his intense desire for social …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
… is to reassess our understanding of Charles Darwin’s theory of beauty by tracing the history of a distinctive aesthetic philosophy within the British natural theological tradition. I propose two new critical concepts as a way of characterising the common features of this aesthetics: …
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The need, opportunity and will for urban renewal : Darwin after Cyclone Tracy
The built environment has proved a major obstacle to urban planning objectives (Woods, 1975). Urban development, not redevelopment, has provided the celebrated achievements of the urban planning movement; planners point to new towns in Europe and to Canberra in Australia to illustrate their visions …
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The need, opportunity and will for urban renewal : Darwin after Cyclone Tracy
The built environment has proved a major obstacle to urban planning objectives (Woods, 1975). Urban development, not redevelopment, has provided the celebrated achievements of the urban planning movement; planners point to new towns in Europe and to Canberra in Australia to illustrate their visions …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
… half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's <italic>On the Origin of Species</italic> in 1859. To assert various qualities of difference, distance, similitude, and proximity between species, visual artists represented animals either in humanized guises or in contexts of encounter …
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Disney meets Darwin : an evolution-based interface for exploration and design of expressive animated behavior
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1994.
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Seepage of hydrocarbon bearing fluids at the Carlos Ribeiro and Darwin mud volcanoes (Gulf of Cadiz)
… mud flow activity at the Carlos Ribeiro and the Darwin MVs in the Gulf of Cadiz. Analyses of the chemical composition of pore fluids, sediments and authigenic carbonates are combined with a 1-D transport-reaction pore fluid model. Pore fluids from both MVs contain high concentrations of …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have established ties between developments in …
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The Argument from Design with special reference to Paley and Darwin and its significance for contemporary Christian apologetic
… to compare and contrast it with the Darwinian theory of evolution which resulted in the demise of the Argument in the nineteenth century, and to assess the significance it can still conceivably have for Christian apologetic today.The thesis begins with an examination of Paley's …
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Five new genera and species of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: ichneumonidae) from the lower oligocene renova formation of Montana
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Darwin, Design, and Dysteleology: A Critical Evaluation of William Dembski and Francisco Ayala on the Problem of Suboptimal Design
… and weaknesses of Ayala’s proposal that Darwin is a gift to theology in light of Dembski’s information-theoretic account of reality.
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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 of …
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Ship Design Optimization Using Asset
… integrated with the design optimization software DARWIN to obtain results representing the best designs over a range of LCA. Model Center software is used to integrate the processes ASSET and Darwin. The results generated will provide the owner with the best designs possible (designs with high …
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The basic morphology of Nangikurungurr
… area, situated approximately 150 kms SSW of Darwin. The majority of Nangikurungurr speakers live on or around the Daly River Mission and at Pepiminati, a cattle station near the Moyle River.
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