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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"History of biology"”.
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More than meets the eye: A taxonomic revision of the Nearctic species in the eye-gnat genus Amiota Loew (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
… Drosophilidae have had an outsize effect on the history of biology because of their pivotal role in the study of genetics, development, and evolution. Even with more than a century of intensive study, large gaps remain in our understanding of diversity in this fly family, including well-studied …
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Research in motion: patterns of large-scale migration in dragonflies and birds
… temporal, and ecological basis to patterns of movement by highly vagile organisms. From this perspective, the differences between chapters are matters of scale: community versus population ecology, and movement by thousands of birds through two localities versus a study of a single …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the first book published in Britain in the nineteenth century that made a comprehensive case arguing for the evolution of life. It appeared anonymously fifteen years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and it was read and discussed by many …
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Aprendizaje significativo crítico del concepto de gen en estudiantes de la carrera docente de Biología de la UPEL-IPC de Venezuela
… en estudiantes de la carrera de formación de profesores de Biología en la Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas en Venezuela. El concepto de gen es complejo, fundamental y está involucrado en el conocimiento de gran parte de la Biología; su aprendizaje …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
The goal of this thesis 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 …