Medicine, Evolution, and Natural Selection: An Historical Overview
- F. Zampieri
- BiologyThe Quarterly review of biology
- 1 December 2009
This work aims to arrive at an evolutionary understanding of those aspects of the body that leave it vulnerable to disease through evolutionary theory.
The discovery of pulmonary circulation: From Imhotep to William Harvey
- Mohamed Elmaghawry, A. Zanatta, F. Zampieri
- PhysicsGlobal Cardiology Science & Practice
- 18 June 2014
In his quest to comprehend his existence, Man has long been exploring his outer world (macro-cosmos), as well as his inner world (micro-cosmos). In modern times, monmental advances in the fields of…
Identification of Giovanni Battista Morgagni remains following historical, anthropological, and molecular studies
- A. Zanatta, F. Zampieri, Girolamo Zampieri, A. Giuliodori, G. Thiene, L. Caenazzo
- HistoryVirchows Archiv
- 16 July 2014
It is assumed that the skull found in the tomb of Giovanni Battista Morgagni is that of his children and that the series of skull fragments are from his children who were buried together with their parents.
An etymological "autopsy" of Morgagni's title: De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis (1761).
- F. Zampieri, A. Zanatta, G. Thiene
- MedicineHuman Pathology
- 2014
The prehistory of the cytoskeleton concept
- F. Zampieri, M. Coen, G. Gabbiani
- BiologyCytoskeleton
- 1 August 2014
Here we discuss how the concept and the name of cytoskeleton were generated and started to evolve over the last two centuries into what is presently a basic topic of modern biology. We also attempt…
Should the annular tendon of the eye be named ‘annulus of Zinn’ or ‘of Valsalva’?
- F. Zampieri, D. Marrone, A. Zanatta
- MedicineActa ophthalmologica
- 1 February 2015
The annular tendon is commonly named ‘annulus of Zinn’, from the German anatomist and botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759) who described this structure in his Descriptio anatomica oculi humani…
Evaluated Model of Pedestrian Movement Based on Space Syntax, Performance Measures and Artificial Neural Nets
- F. Zampieri, Décio Rigatti, C. Ugalde
- Computer Science
- 2009
It is argued that the space syntax theory and measures explain the pedestrian movement as a phenomenon emerged from society, but the linear approach is not capable of explaining their relationships.
Gender differences in the interrelations between digit ratio, psychopathic traits and life history strategies
- Vanessa Marchegiani, F. Zampieri, M. della Barbera, A. Troisi
- PsychologyPersonality and Individual Differences
- 1 December 2018
Andreas Vesalius: Celebrating 500 years of dissecting nature
- F. Zampieri, Mohamed Elmaghawry, A. Zanatta, G. Thiene
- ArtGlobal Cardiology Science & Practice
- 22 December 2015
It is better to dissect nature, than to reduce her to abstraction, according to Francis Bacon.
Vincenzo Malacarne (1744–1816) and the First Description of the Human Cerebellum
- A. Zanatta, Céline Cherici, F. Zampieri
- BiologyCerebellum
- 27 February 2018
Vincenzo Malacarne, professor of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in Turin, Pavia, and Padua, Italy, represented a perfect example of an eighteenth century “letterato”, combining interests in…
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