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Historical contingency and its biophysical basis in glucocorticoid receptor evolution
Understanding how chance historical events shape evolutionary processes is a central goal of evolutionary biology. Direct insights into the extent and causes of evolutionary contingency have been limited to experimental systems, because it is difficult ...
M. Harms, J. W. Thornton
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Participation, Representation and Media System Habermasian Paths to the Past
Drawing from Swedish press history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the present article argues for further historical investigation into three aspects of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere.
Patrik Lundell
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Christian Context of Historical Novel (Zakhar Prilepin’s “Abode”)
The specificity of the synthesis of elements included in the historical narrative, and Christian motives, images in the novel of the largest contemporary Russian prose writer Zakhar Prilepin is comprehended in the article. The relevance of the article is
O. Yu. Osmukhina +2 more
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Buddhism and modernity: in the margin of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’S “Buddhism and Science” [PDF]
The present article aims at setting the issue of the relationship between Buddhism and science in a historical and philosophical frame wider than that took into account by the international scholarship so far.
LO TURCO, Bruno
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Mobile objects: the space of shells in eighteenth-century France [PDF]
The frequent distinction made between scientific and purely amateur collections misrepresents the specificity of the field of eighteenth-century natural history.
Dietz, Bettina
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Whether we think history has a definite logic of its own, or is merely the emergent quality of an irreducible contingency – it is usually taken as granted that it the same way in all its course. This is the case with some philosophers who argue against a
Botond SZILÁGYI
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This roundtable discussion presents a dialogue between digital culture scholars on the seemingly increased presence of hating and hate speech online. Revolving primarily around the recent #GamerGate campaign of intensely misogynistic discourse aimed at ...
Bartow A. +18 more
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Comparative Biology of Temperate and Subtropical Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Platypodidae) in Indiana and Florida [PDF]
Bark and ambrosia beetles were compared from two intensively studied sites. The Indiana site produced 58 species, the Florida site 57 species; 17 species occurred at both sites. Much greater plant host diversity at the Indiana site seems balanced by more
Atkinson, Thomas H, Deyrup, Mark
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Pedagogical Technology: A Specific Historical Approach
In modern conditions of numerous reforms, modernizations and updates, much attention is paid to the content of education and the technological basis of education, which has not been reformatted for centuries. It is practically ignored. As a result, the quality of education is constantly deteriorating, as evidenced by data from international studies ...
B.T. Abykanova +3 more
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Onward To Liberation!—Samir Amin and the Study of World Historical Capitalism
This article presents theoretical and methodological insights of world-systems analysis via the works of Samir Amin and his major interlocuteurs. It is argued that Samir Amin was central to sparking the study of world historical analysis, and offered ...
Salimah Valiani
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