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The Role of Dialectical Materialism in Evolutionary Biology: Redefining Randomness and Environmental Influence on Mutation [PDF]

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This paper argues that the conventional view of mutation as a purely stochastic process is philosophically and empirically insufficient. Grounded in the methodology of dialectical materialism, the argument challenges the dogma of "random mutation" by ...
Gioshvili, Iosebi
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Materialist dialectics and dialectical materialism: towards a materialist conception of history

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No es la conciencia la que determina la vida, sino la vida la que determina la conciencia; esta es una de las consignas claves con las que se parte para una concepción materialista de la historia.
Giraldo, Jhoan Sebastian David
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Searching for Sustainability: Industrial Agriculture of Small Farmers in China and Its Structural Strains

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘sustainability turn’ in China's development paradigm is in part a response to the sustainability challenges—both ecologically and socially—that China's agrarian transition has generated. This article characterizes China's agrarian system as an ‘industrial agriculture of small farmers’ (IASF): industrial in method and social metabolism ...
Qian Forrest Zhang
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The Evolution of Dialectical Thought: From Vedic Intuitions to Scientific Materialism

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This study reconstructs the historical evolution of dialectical thought from its earliest cosmological intuitions to its modern scientific formulation. Rather than locating dialectics solely within Greek philosophy or nineteenth-century materialism, the ...
Khara, Alankar Sukhdev Singh
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past several decades, research in the cognitive sciences has foregrounded the importance of active bodies and their continuous dependence on the changing environment, strengthening the relevance of dynamical models. These models have been steadily developed within the ecological psychology approach to cognition, which arguably ...
Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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