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Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts‐)Biografik: Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
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A imaginação antropológica: conhecimento conjetural e teleologia nos escritos de Kant sobre as raças

Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã, 2016
Trata-se de acompanhar a especificação do método adequado à história natural que ocorre nos três famosos ensaios de Kant sobre as raças à luz da discussão sobre as funções da faculdade de imaginação nas suas Preleções sobre Antropologia.
Leonardo Rennó Santos
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Astragalus ecomorphology in Quaternary elephantids

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The astragalus plays a fundamental role in the graviportal locomotion of proboscideans, reflecting the biomechanical constraints imposed by large body masses. This study analyses the morphological variability of the astragalus in Quaternary elephantids using linear biometry and 3D geometric morphometrics, incorporating an unpublished ...
Darío Fidalgo, Palmira Saladié, Josep Valverdú, Antonio Pineda, Rosa Huguet, Joan Madurell‐Malapeira, Antonio Rosas   +6 more
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Trophic relationships of the spinner dolphin at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, SW Atlantic

Scientia Marina, 2007
We present an overview of predator-prey and other trophic relationships of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) around Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil, with use of original data and a brief review of data published elsewhere.
José Martins Silva-Jr, Flávio José de Lima Silva, Cristina Sazima, Iván Sazima   +3 more
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On the botanical history and nomenclature of the New World genus Piscidia (Fabaceae)

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Piscidia L. (Fabaceae) is a New World genus with nine recognized taxa (seven species and two varieties). The previous nomenclatural revisions, made in 1910 and in 1969, are revisited here. The names Derris grandifolia Heyde & Lux ex Donn.Sm. and P. cubensis Urb. required step II lectotypifications, with an epitype for the latter name.
Camila Sánchez‐ Vega, Kanchi Gandhi, Alfonso Delgado‐ Salinas, Benjamin Deloso, Javier Francisco‐ Ortega   +4 more
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A lizard acting as carrier of the amphibian-killing chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in southern Brazil

Acta Herpetologica, 2018
Fungal infections are causing widespread population declines and extinctions in all vertebrate classes. Among them, an important fungal disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the pathogenic chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).
Mariana Pontes, Guilherme Augusto-Alves, Carolina Lambertini, Luís Toledo   +3 more
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Exploitation of Rabbits at the Dawn of the Holocene: Evidence From the Font Voltada Site (Northeastern Iberia) Using Comparative Neotaphonomic Models

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, hunter‐gatherer societies in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula increased the number of settlements and broadened their subsistence strategies. This period is marked by the appearance of terrestrial snail accumulations attributable to human harvesting, the expansion of specialized ...
Nadihuska Y. Rosado‐Méndez, Jordi Nadal, Lluís Lloveras   +2 more
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Para um melhor conhecimento dos domínios coloniais: a constituição de redes de informação no Império português em finais do Setecentos For a better understanding of colonial domains: the creation of an information net during the Portuguese Empire at the end of the eighteenth century

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2001
O artigo trata da atuação de cientistas, funcionários portugueses e mesmo nativos, inclusive indígenas, na sustentação de uma rede de informações sobre as potencialidades econômicas dos territórios administrados pela coroa portuguesa, tendo como ...
Ângela Domingues
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock, Van Thi Hai Nguyen, Margaret Awuor Owuor, Anna Samwel Manyanza, Ole Seehausen   +4 more
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Homens de ciência no Brasil: impérios coloniais e circulação de informações (1780-1810) Men of science in Brazil: colonial empires and the circulation of information (1780-1810)

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004
No século XVIII, o modelo imperial português cedeu lugar a outras estratégias internacionais, organizadas segundo uma lógica de redes, tecidas em torno de centros de produção de saber e de elaboração e redistribuição de produtos científicos.
Lorelai Kury
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