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Darwin’s legacy [PDF]

open access: yesTheory in Biosciences, 2010
The year 2009 has been a year of numerous commemorations of both scientific and non-scientific achievements that contributed to the advancement of human kind. Protestants celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of Calvin; literary critics celebrated the 200th anniversary of the poet Edgar Allan Poe; and the musical genius Felix Mendelssohn ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Rhizome of life, catastrophes, sequence exchanges, gene creations and giant viruses: How microbial genomics challenges Darwin

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2012
Darwin’s theory about the evolution of species has been the object of considerable dispute. In this review, we have described seven key principles in Darwin’s book The Origin of Species and tried to present how genomics challenge each of these concepts ...
Vicky eMerhej, Didier eRaoult
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The Biological and Cultural Grounds for Ethics: Hans Jonas and Francisco Ayala

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2022
Regarding the epistemological borderlines between science and philosophy, this article approaches the human mind and ethics from biological and philosophical theories.
Francisco Quesada-Rodríguez
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Tropical Darwin on Screen: Critiquing national values using urban frontier tropes in Charlie’s Country and Last Cab to Darwin.

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2018
Australia’s northern-most tropical city of Darwin has a strong presence in the domestic and international touristic imagination as a tropical escape destination – a small city poised on the edge of outstanding natural beauty – yet in national cinematic ...
Gemma Blackwood
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Contingence et représentation arborescente : le cheminement de Darwin des les otebooksjusqu’à la première édition de l’Origine des Espèces

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2017
This study attempts to show how Darwin’s 1otebooks provide evidence that the author of the Origin of the Species moved further and further away from various versions of a “system of nature” based on some complex, abstract, finalized ...
Michael A. Soubbotnik
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All’origine dell’eredità dei caratteri acquisiti: rileggere Erasmus Darwin e Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck per ricordarne la vera identità [PDF]

open access: yesS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2022
At the origin of the inheritance of acquired characters: from Erasmus Darwin to Jean Baptiste de lamarck to remember their true legacy The terms "Lamarckism" and "Lamarckian inheritance" are today widely present in the scientific literature, as a ...
MANDRIOLI, MAURO
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L’opposizione a Darwin di Jakob von Uexküll [PDF]

open access: yesS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2022
Jakob von Uexküll’s Opposition to Darwin The Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll is considered an important precursor of environmental ecology and a forerunner of zoosemiotics.
RASINI, VALLORI
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A TEORIA DA EVOLUÇÃO COMO HARMONIA TEÓRICA -O PERCURSO HARMÔNICO DE CHARLES DARWIN

open access: yesRevista Binacional Brasil - Argentina, 2021
How does a theory impose itself in scientific circles? This essay seeks to answer this question with the example of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, using the procedure of comparing it to a new musical harmony that had to find ears ...
José D'Assunção Barros
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A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project

open access: yesWellcome Open Research
Biodiversity genomics research requires reliable organismal identification, which can be difficult based on morphology alone. DNA-based identification using DNA barcoding can provide confirmation of species identity and resolve taxonomic issues but is ...
A. Twyford   +40 more
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