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Evolutionary Teleonomy as a Unifying Principle for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis [PDF]

, 2018
Wielu ludzi nie docenia wpływu wywieranego przez zasady unifikujące na badania biologiczne. Zasady te mają dostarczać upraszczających założeń w przypadku złożonych problemów, dzięki czemu można te problemy skutecznie rozwiązywać przy użyciu dostępnych ...
Bartlett, Jonathan
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Never Fold to Fold Continuously: A Conundrum in Ubiquitin–Proteasome System (UPS)-Mediated Protein Quality Control (PQC)

Biophysica
In the last few decades, the traditional paradigm of teleonomy, in which the amino acid sequence of a protein is tightly associated with its structure and, in turn, with its function, has been partially undermined.
Stefano Magnati, Enrico Bracco
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Upholding Dignitas Personae in the Human Gene Editing Debate

Religions
This essay offers a philosophical and bioethical upholding of Dignitas Personae §27, which cautions against the use of human gene editing (HGE) for non-therapeutic purposes.
Maria Antonietta Castaldi, Fabio Gragnano   +1 more
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Active noise and vibration control (ANVC): current trends, permanent aims and future possibilities

Archives of Acoustics, 2015
The main purpose of this report is to provide a deaper and more adequate understanding of ANVC. A, literature of about 500 papers is now available and has been analysed: ANVC is now developed in many directions; many experiments have been done, proving ...
Maurice JESSEL
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Teleonomia i ewolucja biologiczna [PDF]

, 2018
 Teleonomy and biological evolutionIn this article I take into consideration the complex process of biological evolu­tion in respect of its teleonomy, i.e. its non-purposeful, non-intentional directedness.
Łagosz, Marek
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Tadeusz Garbowski i filozofia jednorodności

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2005
Tadeusz Garbowski (1869-1940) was an original thinker, preoccupied with zoology and ethology, and also the philosophy of nature. First, he worked in Vienna where he got his PhD and then (1898) he moved to Cracow and continued his studies at the ...
Maciej Kociuba
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Homeostasis as a Response to Entropy, and a Conceptualisation of Teleonomy Using Ramanujan’s Mock Theta Functions

Teleonomy, or purposeful goal directedness in evolving living systems, remains a controversial concept in biology, despite being popularized by the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. Nonetheless, teleonomy is the unifying principle of modern, progressive
Amelia Lewis
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Completeness of the Present System of Creation from the Perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2012
The best possible system of creation is one of the issues discussed by different scholars.Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra are among those raising this issue in a comprehensive way.
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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Carving teleology at its joints [PDF]

This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple meanings of teleology, we propose a refined approach that delineates different kinds of teleology ...
DAVOODY BENI, MAJID, Friston, Karl, Davoody Benı, Majıd   +2 more
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