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The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race
Heredity, 2021 R.A. Fisher was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century (Fig. 1). He was a man of extraordinary ability and originality whose scientific contributions ranged over a very wide area of science, from biology through statistics to ideas on ...
Walter F. Bodmer +6 more
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The Effect of Insurance and Race on Breast Cancer Tumor Biology and Short-Term Outcomes
The American surgeon, 2018 To determine whether low-income status as demonstrated by insurance type has any association with aggressive tumor biology and breast cancer outcomes. Retrospective review of 535 women with new diagnosis of breast cancer from January 2009 to March 2013 ...
L. Samiian +5 more
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What are the principles that govern life?
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2020 We know that living matter must behave in accordance with the universal laws of physics and chemistry. However, these laws are insufficient to explain the specific characteristics of the vital phenomenon and, therefore, we need new principles, intrinsic ...
Jaime Gómez-Márquez
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Clinical pharmacology and therapy, 2022 The relationship between race and biology is complex. In contemporary medical science, race is a social construct that is measured via self‐identification of study participants. But even though race has no biological essence, it is often used as variable
M. Bakkum +15 more
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Race as the basis of 'völkisch' historiography
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual ReviewThis article addresses changes in scientific thought in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany and Austria, which favoured the development of a historiography based on concepts of race. The rise of the natural sciences and particularly, of biology
Othmar Ploeckinger
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Dualismos em duelo Dueling dualism
Cadernos Pagu, 2002 Os modos europeus e norte-americanos de entender como funciona o mundo dependem em grande parte do uso de dualismos - pares de conceitos, objetos ou sistemas de crenças opostos. Este ensaio enquadra especialmente três deles: sexo/gênero, natureza/criação
Anne Fausto-Sterling
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The 2020 race towards SARS-CoV-2 specific vaccines
Theranostics, 2021 The global outbreak of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) highlighted a requirement for two pronged clinical interventions such as development of effective vaccines and acute therapeutic options for medium-to-severe ...
T. Karpiński +4 more
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The challenges of evolution and the metaphysics of creation
ARS Medica, 2016 For as long as human beings have reflected on nature and their place in nature, they have been fascinated with questions of origins: their own individual origins, the origins of their family, of the human race, the origin of life and, ultimately, of the ...
William E. Carroll
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Religions, 2020 Using a complex religion framework, this study examines how and why three dimensions of religiosity—biblical literalism, personal religiosity, and religious service attendance—are related to young women’s reproductive and contraceptive knowledge ...
Laura M. Krull +2 more
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Trainee Perspectives on Race, Antiracism, and the Path toward Justice in Kidney Care.
American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2022 Introduction In 1999, researchers introduced a Black race coefficient of 1.21 to the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) on the basis of the observation that participants who self-identified as Black had a 21% higher measured GFR after ...
A. Heffron +14 more
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