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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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Philosophers and Theologians on Happiness. An analysis of early Latin commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics [PDF]

, 2004
Avant 1250, même avec un champ d’études statutairement restreint, les maîtres ès arts de Paris abordaient un certain nombre de disciplines philosophiques.
Buffon, Valeria
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La miseria de la degeneración: el materialismo de Buffon y las 'limitaciones' de su transformismo The misery of degeneration: Buffon's materialism and the 'limitations' of his transformism

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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Félix de Azara, crítico de Buffon

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
En sus "Apuntamientos para la Historia Natural de los Cuadrúpedos del Paraguay y Río de la Plata", de 1802, Félix de Azara (1742-1821) no sólo corrigió la identificación y descripción de muchas especies sudamericanas hechas por Buffon; él también ...
Gustavo Caponi
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The affinities of Afrophoca libyca from basal Middle Miocene of Gebel Zelten, Libya [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Re-interpretation of the holotype and only known speci-men of Afrophoca libyca reveals that it represents a me-dium -sized anthracothere, Afromeryx zelteni, a species that is common in the basal Middle Miocene deposits at Gebel Zelten, Libya.
Martin Pickford, Christian De Muizon
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Contrasted habitat selection among Eurasian curlew populations according to landscape heterogeneity and breeding stage

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
This study aimed to quantify the spatio‐temporal use of breeding environments by the Eurasian curlew in 5 contrasting agricultural landscapes. To this end, 64 individuals were tagged with GPS devices to assess their space use according to their breeding stages and define their foraging habitat selection.
Marie Donnez, Emmanuel Joyeux, Frédéric Jiguet, Jean‐Noël Ballot, Jeanne Bienvenut, Alain Chartier, Etienne Debenest, Charlotte Francesiaz, Aurélien Lacondemine, Christophe Lartigau, Yves‐Marie Le Guen, Jacques Maout, Charline Pierrefeu, David Pinaud, Nicolas Terrel, Pierrick Bocher   +15 more
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Natural history and temporalization: reflections on Buffon's Natural history [PDF]

, 2013
This article presents a rereading of Buffon´s Natural History in the light of the concepts of temporal reversibility and irreversibility. The goal is to determine to what extent Buffon introduces a transformationist concept of natural forms in this work.
Galfione, María Verónica
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Buffon's problem with a pivot needle

, 2014
In this paper, we solve Buffon's needle problem for a needle consisting of two line segments connected in a pivot point.Comment: 4 pages, 1 ...
Bäsel, Uwe
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Clinical Impact of Angiographic Complications Occurring During Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The clinical impact of different types of angiographic complications during elective PCIs remains largely unexplored. Aims To explore the incidence, management, and outcomes of angiographic complications by type and severity during non‐urgent, non‐CTO PCIs. Methods Clinical and procedural characteristics were prospectively collected
Emiliano Bianchini, Mattia Lunardi, Fabio Casamassima, Francesco Bianchini, Mattia Basile, Enrico Romagnoli, Cristina Aurigemma, Lazzaro Paraggio, Francesco Fracassi, Rocco Antonio Montone, Antonino Buffon, Luigi Cappannoli, Carolina Ierardi, Tommaso Sanna, Antonio Maria Leone, Carlo Trani, Francesco Burzotta   +16 more
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Combinatory Library of Microorganisms in the Selection of Reductive Activity Applied to a Ketone Mixture: Unexpected Highlighting of an Enantioselective Oxidative Activity

Microorganisms, 2023
Biocatalytic processes are increasingly used in organic synthesis for the preparation of targeted molecules or the generation of molecular diversity. The search for the biocatalyst is often the bottleneck in the development of the process. We described a
Sofiane Ali Rachedi, Maximillien Genest, Stéphane Mann, Didier Buisson   +3 more
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