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Against “revolution” and “evolution” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Those standard historiographic themes of “evolution” and “revolution” need replacing. They perpetuate mid-Victorian scientists’ history of science. Historians’ history of science does well to take in the long run from the Greek and Hebrew heritages on ...
Hodge, M.J.S.
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Ex-corporation: on male birth fantasies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Between 1890 and 1933, male birth fantasies became a widespread phenomenon in European culture. One of the key examples of male birth fantasies is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “African” novel Mafarka the Futurist.
Kanz, Christine
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On Verdansky's biosphere [PDF]

open access: yesWeb Ecology, 2000
Vladimir Ivanovitch Vernadsky was a Russian mineralogist and crystallographer by training (St. Petersburg Univ.). He was born in St. Petersburg, on the 12th of March 1863, and died on the 6th of January 1945, in Moscow.
J. P. Cancela da Fonseca
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Presence of the “Threatened” \u3ci\u3eTrimerotropis Huroniana\u3c/i\u3e (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in Relation to the Occurrence of Native Dune Plant Species and the Exotic \u3ci\u3eCentaurea Biebersteinii\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Trimerotropis huroniana Wlk. is a “Threatened” species in Michigan and Wisconsin with a distribution limited to open dune systems in the northern Great Lakes region of North America.
Marshall, Jordan M, Storer, Andrew J
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The status of the name Alysium holtingii C. Agardh, a red alga described from Brazil, and a depiction of the type specimen

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2008
The type specimen of the red alga Alysium holtingii C. Agardh, described from Brazil, is located in the Lund Herbarium, and it is depicted for the first time in a publication. It is taxonomically identical to Dichotomaria obtusata (J. Ellis and Solander)
Michael J. Wynne
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Meta-Learning by the Baldwin Effect

open access: yes, 2018
The scope of the Baldwin effect was recently called into question by two papers that closely examined the seminal work of Hinton and Nowlan. To this date there has been no demonstration of its necessity in empirically challenging tasks. Here we show that
Fernando, Chrisantha Thomas   +8 more
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A estrutura histórico-conceitual dos programas de pesquisa de Darwin e Lamarck e sua transposição para o ambiente escolar Darwin and Lamarck research programs hitoric-conceptual structure and its conversion to the school environment

open access: yesCiência & Educação, 2005
O presente trabalho tenta estabelecer uma complementaridade teórica entre uma abordagem epistemológica - a metodologia dos programas de pesquisa de Lakatos - e uma psicológico-cognitivista - a teoria dos campos conceituais de Vergnaud - objetivando a ...
Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida   +1 more
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Theory of Evolution and Faith in Creation On the History of a Tense Relationship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This overview of the history of the idea of evolution includes the work of many European scholars often omitted from such accounts, particularly in the United States.
Schmitz-Moormann, Karl
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The impact of Rapido trawling for scallops, Pecten jacobaeus (L.), on the benthos of the Gulf of Venice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Rapido trawls are used to catch sole around the coast of Italy and to catch scallops in the northern Adriatic Sea but little is known about the environmental impact of this gear.
Atkinson, RJA   +3 more
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Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? : Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall differs fundamentally from ...
Bannister R.C   +63 more
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