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Newton en el pensamiento naturalista de Buffon: La analogía biológica de la gravedad
Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 1992 Desde muy temprano Buffon mostró gran interés por la obra y pensamiento de Newton. La idea dé progresión y expansión infinita, su cosmología, el problema de la generación de los animales sobre todo, van a apoyarse de modo explícito en el concepto de ...
Antonio Pereira Poza
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La unidad de tipo en la historia natural de Buffon
Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência, 2008 En la Historia Natural de Buffon, tanto la semejanza general de los animales, como sus diferencias más importantes, se explican por los principios generales y las condiciones particulares que rigieron su constitución.
Gustavo Caponi
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Impacts of coastal realignment on biodiversity. A systematic review and meta-analysis
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 In the context of climate change and sea-level rise, several types of management are employed, including coastal realignment, which consists in reopening polders to marine intrusions. This intervention induces changes in biodiversity. A systematic review,
Marianne Debue +3 more
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Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting positions within early-nineteenth-
Zygmont, Bryan J.
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Large-scale semi-automated acoustic monitoring allows to detect temporal decline of bush-crickets
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016 Monitoring biodiversity over large spatial and temporal scales is crucial to assess the impact of global changes and environmental mitigation measures.
Alienor Jeliazkov +5 more
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The organism: reality or fiction? [PDF]
, 2014 What is an ‘organism’? A state of matter, or a particular type of living being chosen as an experimental object, like the fruit fly or the roundworm c. elegans, which are ‘model organisms’?
Wolfe, Charles
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Two-index generalisations of Superconformal Algebras [PDF]
, 1996 The superconformal algebras of Ademollo et al are generalised to a multi-index form. The structure obtained is similar to the Moyal Bracket analogue of the Neveu-Schwarz Algebra.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, no ...
Fairlie, D. B., Nuyts, Jean
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A Quantized Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma: The Finding of Buffon's Needle [PDF]
, 2015 In 1733, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in France, set the ground of geometric probability theory by defining an enlightening problem: What is the probability that a needle thrown randomly on a ground made of equispaced parallel strips lies on ...
Jacques, Laurent
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Buffon, Jefferson and the theory of New World degeneracy
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2019 In his magnum opus, Natural History: General and Particular, Count Buffon, one of the leading natural historians of the 18th century, argued that all life in the New World, particularly North America, was degenerate—weaker, smaller and feebler—than life ...
Lee Alan Dugatkin
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009 En "De la degeneración des animales", de 1766, Buffon sostuvo un 'transformismo limitado' que, doce años después, en Las épocas de la naturaleza, sería complementado por una teoría materialista sobre el origen de la vida que ponía en evidencia que, para ...
Gustavo Caponi
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