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- 1From:Astrobiology (Vol. 10, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedCan life be defined? This question has taken on increasing significance because it now seems likely that in the next few years someone will claim to have assembled a version of artificial life in the laboratory. To make...
- 2From:Astrobiology (Vol. 10, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn spite of the spectacular developments in our understanding of the molecular basis that underlies biological phenomena, we still lack a generally agreed-upon definition of life, but this is not for want of trying....
- 3From:Biology & Philosophy (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe critically examine a number of aspects of Grafen's 'formal Darwinism' project. We argue that Grafen's 'selection-optimality' links do not quite succeed in vindicating the working assumption made by behavioural...
- 4From:Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics (Vol. 57, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe structure and features of pragmatic information and pragmatic informational interaction are considered in the context of the real pragmatics--a purposeful human activity. Transformation of the empirical data into...
- 5From:Paleontological Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedProblems of appearance, formation (coming into being), early evolution of organic world and environments on the Earth are among basic problems of modern science. Two main conditions are noted in the history of every...
- 6From:Biology & Philosophy (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLateral gene transfer (LGT), the exchange of genetic information between (primarily prokaryotic) lineages, not only makes construction of a universal Tree of Life (TOL) difficult to achieve, but calls into question the...
- 7From:Plant Ecology (Vol. 209, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPlant species composition is a critical issue in ecological research. Studies on the characteristics of plant species composition in the built-up areas, however, are hampered by a lack of basic field-based...
- 8From:The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields (Vol. 66, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAn effective fluid description, for a brane world model in five dimensions, is discussed for both signs of the brane tension. We found several cosmological scenarios where the effective equation differs widely from the...
- 9From:Nature Reviews Genetics (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his comments on our Opinion article (The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications. Nature Rev. Genet. 10, 725-732 (2009))(1) Amir Ali Abbasi (Piecemeal or big bangs: correlating the vertebrate...
- 10From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFifty years ago, in just the third year of its own existence, Victorian Studies commemorated the centennial of On the Origin of Species with a special Darwin Anniversary Issue. An impressive interdisciplinary roster of...
- 11From:BMC Evolutionary Biology (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Kyanne R Reidenbach [1]; Shelley Cook [2]; Matthew A Bertone [3]; Ralph E Harbach [2]; Brian M Wiegmann [3]; Nora J Besansky (corresponding author) [1] Background Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are a...
- 12From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on settlement house work and social reform as efforts to reconcile concerns about the survival of the unfit with the desire for reform and charity. Self-described progressives regarded themselves as...
- 13From:Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy (Vol. 4, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe idea that life is based on signs and codes, i.e., that "Life is semiosis", has been strongly suggested by the discovery of the genetic code, but so far it has made little impact, and is largely regarded as...
- 14From:Style (Vol. 42, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedJoseph Carroll's target article "An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Studies" makes a bold argument for the importance of an evolutionary perspective in the humanities, and it provides a sweeping overview of the...
- 15From:Science (Vol. 306, Issue 5699) Peer-ReviewedAlthough we have not yet counted the total number of species on our planet, biologists in the field of systematics are eagerly assembling the Tree of Life (1, 2). The Tree of Life aims to define the phylogenetic...
- 16From:Curriculum Administrator (Vol. 37, Issue 4)Ending nearly two years of ridicule from many education experts, Kansas Board of Education members decided to again teach evolution as the central theory of the origin of man. In one of the most watched cases in recent...
- 17From:Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKey words: creationism, establishment, incorporation, neutrality, scientific Since at least 1925, the legality of teaching the theory of evolution and the descent of man by natural selection in public secondary...
- 18From:The Biological Bulletin (Vol. 202, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. The apical sensory organ in veliger larvae of a patellogastropod, a basal clade of gastropod molluscs, was studied using ultrastructural and immunohistochemical techniques. Immediately before veligers of...
- 19From:Science (Vol. 279, Issue 5359) Peer-ReviewedIt is one of evolutionary biologists' favorite thought experiments: If one could start with similar organisms in similar environments, would evolution repeat itself to produce the same results? Some biologists say no....
- 20From:Science (Vol. 282, Issue 5389) Peer-ReviewedNonhuman animal intelligence research indicates that man is not the only species that knows how to count, or to represent number. Implications for human cultural history and assumptions about evolution are analyzed....