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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"evolutionary theory"”.
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The Use of Evolutionary Theory by American Poets: 1900-1950
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Indiana high school biology teachers and evolutionary theory : acceptance and understanding
… among the variables of teacher acceptance of evolutionary theory, teacher understanding of evolutionary theory, and teacher understanding of the nature of science among Indiana public high school biology teachers. The relationships between these variables and the emphasis evolution receives in …
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Visions of Evolutionary Theory in the Political Thought of British Socialists, 1880-1901
This thesis examines the fissiparity of Socialist groups in the last two decades of nineteenth-century Britain. I reject the predominant view in scholarship that their inability to coalesce was caused by inter-personal conflict and posit instead that the failure was rooted in disparate …
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AN ANALYSIS OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND A CRITIQUE OF THEORIES OF EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY.
AN ANALYSIS OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND A CRITIQUE OF THEORIES OF EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY.
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The Breakup Project: using evolutionary theory to predict and interpret responses to romantic relationship dissolution
… pair bonds is a well-represented topic in human evolutionary sciences. This extensive body of work, drawn mostly from the field of evolutionary psychology, has proposed mechanisms for attracting a mate (e.g., resource display, physical cues), attaining a mate (e.g., intrasexual competition), and …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… and deliver solid scientific instruction of evolutionary theory despite the conflicts that may arise. The latter were the topic of this study.</p> <p>I interviewed five teachers that had experience dealing with resistance to learning evolution in their school community. Through these in-depth …
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Balanced biosocial theory for the social sciences
Evolutionary theory is the unquestioned paradigm for all biological sciences and is gaining acceptance in many of the social sciences, predominantly psychology and anthropology. Sociology, as a discipline, has failed to embrace evolutionary theory and remains uninformed about the most powerful …
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Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach to Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"and "Wamsutter Wolf"
… environment in Proulx's work lends itself to an evolutionary perspective. Proulx's fiction, like evolutionary theory, examines humanity's unique, reciprocal relationship with nature. The evolutionary approach provides readers with a framework to understand the human relationship to our …
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Modeling Socioeconomic Evolution and Continuity in Ancient Egypt: The Value and Limitations of Zooarchaeological Analyses
… methodology demonstrated the utility of applying evolutionary theory to understanding the development, adoption and perpetuation of alternative economic and social production strategies in ancient Egypt. This multi-stage analysis formed a necessary first step for future research to identify the …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… of interpreting these observations based on evolutionary science as Howells understood it. Charles Sprague's "The Darwinian Theory," published in the Atlantic in 1866, the year Howells became assistant editor, provided the foundation for this new method, and Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay …
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Molecular Epigenetics in Evolution and Development
The dominantly held view in evolutionary theory focuses on gradual or punctuated change, primarily via natural selection, as the mechanism by which novel traits arise and evolution occurs. Noticeably absent from this portrayal of evolution is mention of the conservation of general characteristics, …
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Business Models and Performance: Entrepreneurial aspects in the New York wine industry
… using for their business model design. Utilizing evolutionary theory, I focus upon organizational routines to identify innovation. I explored characteristics within the firm associated with innovativeness in the business model including customer information processes; willingness to pursue …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
… explores the popularisation of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in Romania from 1859 to 1918. Placing Darwinism in the Romanian context is important in several ways, as not only gives a picture of the interconnectedness between the political and the scientific construction of knowledge, but …
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The Role of Evolutionary and Social Factors in the Same-sex and Partner Aggression
… ranging from social theories (Bandura, 1973) to evolutionary theories (Buss, 1999). This report uses evolutionary theory to derive predictors of aggressive behaviour, in particular whether there are sex differences in predicting aggression. Four evolutionary-derived predictors (impulsivity, …
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The End of Capitalism, Again? An institutional-evolutionary view
… regulation. In this thesis I use institutional-evolutionary theory to critically assess the limitations of key arguments in the debate on capitalism's future. Institutional-evolutionary theory is based on a contemporary revival of Thorstein Veblen's work. I argue the theory contains the …
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The root of all evils: creation science and the fundamentalist mission
… rejection of modernist thought and evolutionary theory. The thesis concludes that creation science is not a valid scientific endeavor, and is in instead a form of Biblical apologetics.
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Inuit and Iroquois and Inca, Oh My: Societal Formation in the Americas
… influence. By applying anthropological political evolutionary theory to the three case studies, probable likelihoods are considered and analyzed. The Inuit were a stable society that would have continued as they were without the introduction of a European-level influencer. The Iroquois were …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
… of understanding basic tenets of this important theory is just now coming to light. Knowledge about evolution is constructed from both formal and "free-choice" opportunities, like television. Nature programs are commonly considered "educational" by definition, but research indicates the …
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