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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
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Human nature and the limits of science
John Dupre warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday…
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Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science
Reading is a hobby to open the knowledge windows. Besides, it can provide the inspiration and spirit to face this life. By this way, concomitant with the technology development, many companies serve…
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The Latest on the best : essays on evolution and optimality
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These original essays take up both sides of the controversy over the role of optimality models in evolutionary biology, providing a refreshingly insightful and balanced discussion of Optimality issues by an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers of biology, biologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and an economist.
Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
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This chapter discusses the history and present situation of genomics, as well as some of the issues raised in the book's subtitle, "Beyond the Monogenomic Differentiated Cell Lineage".
Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things
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This article sets out alternative models to the tree of life to study prokaryote-eukaryote evolution, surmising that phylogeny opted for a single model as a holdover from the Modern Synthesis of evolution.
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Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa
Travaux de Putnam et Kripke sur la taxonomie biologique. Aspects theoriques et philosophiques.
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Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism
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The central argument is that life arises when lineage-forming entities collaborate in metabolism, and the view of life as a continuum of variably structured collaborative systems leaves open the possibility that a variety of forms of organized matter might be usefully understood as living entities.
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Genomes and What to Make of Them
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The authors are now living with a new knowledge as powerful in its way as nuclear physics, and the stark choices that face us - between biological warfare and gene therapy, a new eugenics or a new agricultural revolution - will demand the full engagement of both scientists and citizens.
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Fundamental issues in systems biology.
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It is suggested that resolving basic problems is a key task for successful systems biology, and that philosophers could contribute to its realisation, and an argument for more sociologically informed collaboration between scientists and philosophers is concluded.
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