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What the Alligator didn't Know: Natural Selection and Love in Our Mutual Friend
19, 2010 This essay reads Our Mutual Friend as Dickens’s rejoinder to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and sees it as a novel that is profoundly shaped by the imaginative impact of Darwin’s work. However, the direct influence of On the Origin of
Nicola Bown
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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Pectocarya recurvata (Boraginaceae, subfamily Cynoglossoideae), a species native to the Sonoran Desert (North America), has served as a model system for a suite of ecological and evolutionary studies. However, no reference genomes are currently available in Cynoglossoideae. A high‐quality reference genome for P.
Poppy C. Northing +3 more
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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2010 Los 200 años del nacimiento de Charles R. Darwin y los 150 años de la publicación de su libro ?El origen de las especies? recuerdan la importancia de la creatividad y de comprender cómo se desarrolla.
Ximena Miranda Garnier
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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Here we demonstrate the application of interpretable machine learning methods to investigate intraspecific functional trait divergence using diverse genotypes of the wide‐ranging sunflower Helianthus annuus occupying populations across two contrasting ecoregions—the Great Plains versus the North American Deserts.
Sambadi Majumder, Chase M. Mason
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https://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/2023/07/24/epistemologia-e-metafisica-nella-teoria-della-selezione-sessuale-di-darwin/ [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2023 Epistemology and Metaphysic in Darwin’s Theory of sexual Selection The theory of evolution by natural selection appeared for the first time in 1859 and, despite the initial opposition of some scientists and Churches, in a few years it established itself
Di Concilio, Salvatore
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The importance of science communication and public engagement to professional associations
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Scientists have gathered in professional associations to promote science to the public. The American Association for Anatomy (AAA) has invested resources in programs to promote anatomical sciences to the public (high school level via the Anato‐Bee; all levels via Anatomy nights) and train scientists how to talk to the public (SciComm Bootcamp ...
Martine Dunnwald +2 more
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Retorno a Limoges. La Adaptación en Lamarck
Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 2006 Contrariando las lecturas post-darwinianas de Lamarck, Camille Limoges nos dio algunas claves que, debidamente reconsideradas, nos permiten afirmar que, para el autor de la Filosofía Zoológica, las modificaciones de los perfiles orgánicos producidas por ...
Gustavo Caponi
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Intorno ad alcuni modi del caso in Darwin a partire dal Doktorarbeit di Wilhelm Windelband [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2022 On some models of chance in Darwin starting from Wilhelm Windelband’s Doktorarbeit The incidence of the notion of chance in the evolutionary mechanism that Charles Darwin envisages in On the origin of species (1859) is one of the basic reasons why the ...
MASSIMILLA, EDOARDO
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Abstract The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident underscored the crucial role of nuclear engineering experts. However, the specific arguments and motivations of scientists advocating for the introduction of foreign reactors remain unclear.
Masahiro Inohana
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Aula, 2011 The teaching of evolution in the Portuguese secondary schools is not yet fully understood. This research aimed to contribute to this clarification, in the framework of the history of the curriculum and the biology subject, by showing the expressions of ...
Bento CAVADAS
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