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Nutrient‐specific compensation for seasonal cold stress in a free‐ranging temperate colobine monkey
Functional Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 9, Page 2170-2180, September 2018., 2018 Plain Language Summary Abstract Homeostatic responses of animals to environmentally induced changes in nutrient requirements provide a powerful basis for predictive ecological models, and yet, such responses are virtually unstudied in the wild. We tested for macronutrient‐specific compensatory feeding responses by free‐ranging golden snub‐nosed monkeys
Song‐Tao Guo +11 more
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Immunology and Homeopathy. 5. The Rationale of the ‘Simile’
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 149-163, 2007., 2007 The foundation of homeopathic medicine is the ‘Similia Principle’, also known as the ‘Principle of Similarity’ or also as the ‘Simile’, which reflects the inversion of pharmacological effects in healthy subjects as compared with sick ones. This article describes the inversion of effects, a widespread medical phenomenon, through three possible ...
Paolo Bellavite +4 more
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A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2002 (2002). A Pyrrhic Victory for Teleonomy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 372-377.
Braddon-Mitchell, David, Jackson, Frank
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Knowing one's place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation. [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding how organisms establish their form during embryogenesis and regeneration represents a major knowledge gap in biological pattern formation.
Friston, K +3 more
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The “God Module” and the Complexifying Brain
Zygon, 2000 Recent reports of the discovery of a “God module” in the human brain derive from the fact that epileptic seizures in the left temporal lobe are associated with ecstatic feelings sometimes described as an experience of the presence of God. The brain area
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RUDN Journal of PhilosophyThe research addresses a relevant and controversial topic - teleology. Final causality is the keystone without which the construction and consolidation of the paradigm of global evolutionism in the modern scientific community is unthinkable.
Dmitry V. Mamchenkov +1 more
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Agency, teleonomy and signal transduction in plant systems
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022 AbstractPlants are the basis of nearly all food chains. The evolutionary response to inevitable predatory and other contingent hazards has provided plants with remarkable regenerative and plastic capabilities. Teleonomy has been characterized as purposive, adaptive and goal-directed behaviour.
Simon Gilroy, Tony Trewavas
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THE DIRECTNESS IN PROCESSES OF EVOLUTION [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2019 One of the fundamental problems in evolutionary sciences is the direction of evolution at different levels of matter organization. According to traditional teleological interpretations, the evolving systems should develop toward a final state—a goal ...
Leszek Żuk
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Teleology and Teleonomy in Behavior Analysis [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst, 1994 Teleological descriptions and explanations refer to purpose as consequent to a phenomenon. They become nonteleological if purpose is represented as antecedent to the phenomenon. Such nonteleological statements are called teleonomic, especially when they refer to antecedent genetic "programs." In behavior analysis, purpose is attributed to the organism ...
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Viewing the technosphere in an interplanetary light [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I argue that discussion about the ‘technosphere’ as an emergent new Earth system needs to be situated within wider reflection about how technospheres might arise on other worlds.
Szerszynski, Bronislaw
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