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Consilience and unity in ocular anterior segment research [PDF]
In his beautiful book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, the eminent biologist Edward O Wilson, advocates the need for integration and reconciliation across the sciences.
Houmam Araj
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Consilience in the Peripheral Sensory Adaptation Response
Measurements of the peripheral sensory adaptation response were compared to a simple mathematical relationship involving the spontaneous, peak, and steady-state activities.
Willy Wong
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Consilience in Causation: Causal Emergence Is Found Across Measures of Causation [PDF]
Causation is fundamentally important to science, and yet our understanding of causation is spread out across disparate fields, with different measures of causation having been proposed in philosophy, statistics, psychology, and other areas.
Renzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
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Cognitive consilience: Primate non-primary neuroanatomical circuits underlying cognition [PDF]
Interactions between the cerebral cortex, thalamus, and basal ganglia form the basis ofcognitive information processing in the mammalian brain. Understanding the principles ofneuroanatomical organization in these structures is critical to understanding ...
Soren Van Hout Solari +2 more
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The coming wave of confluent biosynthetic, bioinformational and bioengineering technologies [PDF]
Information and energy flows form the basis of all economic activity, with advanced technologies underpinning both. Profound uncertainties caused by geostrategic forces have accelerated a trillion-dollar race for technological superiority.
Isak S. Pretorius +4 more
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Two analytic examples of globally regular non-Abelian gravitating solitons in the Einstein–Yang–Mills–Higgs theory in (3 + 1)-dimensions are presented. In both cases, the space-time geometries are of the Nariai type and the Yang–Mills field is completely
Fabrizio Canfora, Seung Hun Oh
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Claude Lévi-Strauss as a humanist forerunner of cultural macroevolution studies
Cross-cultural studies of humans using methods developed in evolutionary biology and comparative linguistics are flourishing. ‘Cultural macroevolution’ has great potential to address fundamental questions of cultural transformation and human history ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
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A CONSILIENCE OF EQUAL REGARD: STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
This article offers a fresh assessment of the views of the American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on the relation of science and religion.
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Sustainable development indicators: the tyranny of methodology revisited [PDF]
Indicators are increasingly dominating our lives; whether we are aware of it or not. They have been popular tools for sustainable development policy makers, planners and managers, largely because they do the hard work of condensing complexity into single
Bell, Simon, Morse, Stephen
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Consillience – Consensus Between Sciences in the Third Millenium/21st Century
Consilience (the term originating in inductive logic and “modernized” in the 1990s by E. O. Wilson, the creator of sociobiology) refers to the age-long dream of humanity that one day all branches of learning will see their unification – from the ...
Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska
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