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Classification, Disease and Evidence [[electronic resource] ] : New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine / / edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein
| Classification, Disease and Evidence [[electronic resource] ] : New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine / / edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.1 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Medical ethics Medicine—History Philosophy of Biology Theory of Medicine/Bioethics History of Medicine |
| ISBN | 94-017-8887-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Evolutionary Models of Virulence: Concepts, History and Current Applications; Alizon, Sam and Méthot, Pierre Olivier.-Objectivity, Scientificity and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine; Cunningham; Thomas -- The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder; Steeves, Demazeux -- Defining genetic disease; Dekeuwer; Catherine -- Causal and probabilistic inferences in diagnostic reasoning: casting a historical light onto the current debates; Coste, Joël -- Risk factor and causality in epidemiology; Giroux, Elodie -- The naturalization of the concept of disease; Lemoine, Mael -- The Epistemology of Mental Illness; Dominic Murphy -- Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the misuse of the DSM; Singy, Patrick -- Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine; Stegenga, Jacob. |
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Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age [[electronic resource] /] / by Ladislav Kováč
| Closing Human Evolution: Life in the Ultimate Age [[electronic resource] /] / by Ladislav Kováč |
| Autore | Kováč Ladislav |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Sociophysics Econophysics Biology—Philosophy Life sciences Philosophy and social sciences Evolutionary Biology Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building Philosophy of Biology Popular Life Sciences Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-20660-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prelude -- First movement. Life as a cosmic imperative -- Second movement. Evolutionary uniqueness of humans -- Third movement -- The ultimate optimism: Finitics -- Finale. |
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Kováč Ladislav
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Code Biology [[electronic resource] ] : A New Science of Life / / by Marcello Barbieri
| Code Biology [[electronic resource] ] : A New Science of Life / / by Marcello Barbieri |
| Autore | Barbieri Marcello |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina |
003.54
401.43 570 570.1 571.6 577 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecology
Cell biology Semantics Biology—Philosophy Coding theory Information theory Ecology Cell Biology Philosophy of Biology Coding and Information Theory |
| ISBN | 3-319-14535-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments Introductory Chapter -- The Life and Education of Jakob von Uexküll. The Basis of the Environmental Theory -- The Subjective World of the Umwelt -- The Structure of the Umwelt -- Environment and Meaning -- Influences and Interpretations of the Work of Uexküll -- Conclusion. References -- Index. |
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Barbieri Marcello
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Conceptual Change in Biology [[electronic resource] ] : Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development / / edited by Alan C. Love
| Conceptual Change in Biology [[electronic resource] ] : Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development / / edited by Alan C. Love |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (492 p.) |
| Disciplina | 575.009 |
| Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Biology—Philosophy Evolutionary biology Embryology History Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Biology Evolutionary Biology History, general |
| ISBN | 94-017-9412-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Developmental Biology; Alan C. Love -- PART I: ADAPTATION, ALLOMETRY, HETEROCHRONY AND HOMOPLASY -- Chapter 2: Adaptive Aspects of Development: A Thirty-year Perspective on the Relevance of Biomechanical and Allometric Analyses; Karl Niklas -- Chapter 3: Do Functional Requirements for Embryos and Larvae Have a Place in Evo-devo? Richard Strathmann -- Chapter 4: Is Heterochrony Still an Effective Paradigm for Contemporary Studies of Evo-devo? James Hanken -- Chapter 5: Homoplasy, a Moving Target; David Wake -- PART II: PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY -- Chapter 6: The Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Life History Traits; Stephen Stearns -- Chapter 7: A Developmental-physiological Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity; H. Fred Nijhout -- Chapter 8: Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change: A Retrospective from the Vantage Point of Developmental Signaling Pathways; John Gerhart -- Chapter 9: The Road to Facilitated Variation; Marc Kirschner -- PART III: MODELS, LARVAE, PHYLA AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 10: Phyla, Phylogeny, and Embryonic Body Plans; Gary Freeman -- Chapter 11: Evo-devo and the Evolution of Marine Larvae: From the Modern World to the Dawn of the Metazoa; Rudolf Raff -- Chapter 12: Dahlem 1981: Before and Beyond; Armand de Ricqlès -- Chapter 13: What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us about Evo-devo; James Griesemer -- PART IV: CONSTRAINT AND EVOLVABILITY -- Chapter 14: From Developmental Constraint to Evolvability: How Concepts Figure in Explanation and Disciplinary Identity; Ingo Brigandt -- Chapter 15: Reinventing the Organism: Evolvability and Homology in Post-Dahlem Evolutionary Biology; Günter Wagner -- Chapter 16: Internal Factors in Evolution: The Morphogenetic Tree, Developmental Bias, and Some Thoughts on the Conceptual Structure of Evo-devo; Wallace Arthur -- Chapter 17: Entrenchment as a Theoretical Tool in Evolutionary Developmental Biology; William Wimsatt -- PART V: HIERARCHIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- Chapter 18: Hierarchies and Integration in Evolution and Development; Marvalee Wake -- Chapter 19: Development and Evolution: The Physics Connection; Stuart Newman -- Chapter 20: The Interaction of Research Systems in the Evo-devo Juncture; Elihu Gerson -- Chapter 21: Evo-devo as a Trading Zone; Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther -- Index. |
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A Critical Overview of Biological Functions [[electronic resource] /] / by Justin Garson
| A Critical Overview of Biological Functions [[electronic resource] /] / by Justin Garson |
| Autore | Garson Justin |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (119 p.) |
| Disciplina | 574.01 |
| Collana | Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Medicine—Philosophy Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Medicine |
| ISBN | 3-319-32020-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. What is a theory of function supposed to do? -- Chapter 2. Goals and Functions -- Chapter 3. Function and Selection -- Chapter 4. Function and Fitness -- Chapter 5. Functions and Causal Roles -- Chapter 6. Alternative Accounts of Function -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: What Next?. |
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Garson Justin
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Cultural Phylogenetics [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts and Applications in Archaeology / / edited by Larissa Mendoza Straffon
| Cultural Phylogenetics [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts and Applications in Archaeology / / edited by Larissa Mendoza Straffon |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 930.1 |
| Collana | Interdisciplinary Evolution Research |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Human genetics Anthropology Biology—Philosophy Archaeology Evolutionary Biology Human Genetics Philosophy of Biology |
| ISBN | 3-319-25928-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 2.1 Skateboard Decks |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910253871103321 |
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Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection [[electronic resource] ] : What's left after Darwin? / / edited by Thierry Hoquet
| Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection [[electronic resource] ] : What's left after Darwin? / / edited by Thierry Hoquet |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
| Disciplina | 575.00924 |
| Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
Evolutionary biology Sexual behavior Sexual psychology Philosophy of Biology Evolutionary Biology Sexual Behavior |
| ISBN | 94-017-9585-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Opening Pandora’s Boxes in Sexual Selection Research; Thierry Hoquet -- Section 1. In Darwin’s footsteps: historical issues -- Chapter 1. Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man?; Michael Ruse -- Chapter 2. Utility vs Beauty: The Darwin/Wallace Debate as a Structuring Pattern in the History of Sexual Selection?; Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky -- Chapter 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility: discovery and rejection of sex-ratio evolution and density-dependent selection; Michel Veuille -- Chapter 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics: Claudine Petit (1920-2007); Jean Gayon -- Section 2. Current challenges -- Chapter 5. Sexual selection: is anything left?; Joan Roughgarden -- Chapter 6. Standing on Darwin’s shoulders: the nature of selection hypotheses; Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Chapter 7. Sexual selection: the logical imperative; Tommaso Pizzari and Geoff. Parker -- Chapter 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection; Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price -- Chapter 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation: the persisting debate about female choice; Frank Cézilly -- Chapter 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions; Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Section 3. Prospects: Animal aesthetics? -- Chapter 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice; Richard O. Prum -- Chapter 12. The riddle of attractiveness: looking for an ‘Aesthetic sense’ within the hedonic mind of the beholders; Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer -- Chapter 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement: A behavioural approach to aesthetics; Shigeru Watanabe. |
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The Darwinian Tradition in Context [[electronic resource] ] : Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology / / edited by Richard G. Delisle
| The Darwinian Tradition in Context [[electronic resource] ] : Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology / / edited by Richard G. Delisle |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 352 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
History Biology—Philosophy Developmental biology Philosophy Evolutionary Biology History of Science Philosophy of Biology Developmental Biology History of Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-319-69123-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- Darwinism or a Kaleidoscope of Research Programs and Ideas? -- Part I. From a Pluralistic Darwinism to an Ever More Inclusive Darwinism -- 2. Selfish Genes and Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins' and Stephen Jay Gould's Divergent Darwinian Agendas -- 3.The Behavioral Sciences and Sociobiology: A Darwinian Approach -- 4. Darwinism in the 20th Century: Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development -- 5. Darwinism after the Modern Synthesis -- Human Evolution as a Theoretical Model for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis -- Part II. Crossing the Boundaries: Between non-Darwinian and Darwinian -- 6. From Charles Darwin to the Evolutionary Synthesis: Weak and Diffused Connections Only -- 7. Major Research Traditions in 20th Century Evolutionary Biology: The Relations of Germany's Darwinism with Them -- 8. Alternatives to Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century -- 9. The Organismal Synthesis: Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915–1954 -- 10. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology (1900-1970) -- 11. Molecularizing Evolutionary Biology -- 12. Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields -- 13. Symbiogenesis and Cell Evolution: an Anti-Darwinian Research Agenda? -- 14. Paleobiology’s Uneasy Relationship with the Darwinian Tradition: Stasis as Data. |
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Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life [[electronic resource] ] : How the experimental method shaped life sciences / / by Pierre V. Vignais, Paulette M. Vignais
| Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life [[electronic resource] ] : How the experimental method shaped life sciences / / by Pierre V. Vignais, Paulette M. Vignais |
| Autore | Vignais Pierre V |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2010.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biochemistry
Science - History Biology - Philosophy Biophysics Engineering Life sciences History of Science Philosophy of Biology Technology and Engineering Life Sciences |
| ISBN |
1-283-00167-5
9786613001672 90-481-3767-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Roots of Experimental Science from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance -- The Birth of the Experimental Method in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- The Impact of Determinism in the Life Sciences of the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Challenges for Experimentation on Living Beings at the Dawn of the 21st Century -- Epilogue. |
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Vignais Pierre V
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Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life [[electronic resource] ] : How the experimental method shaped life sciences / / by Pierre V. Vignais, Paulette M. Vignais
| Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life [[electronic resource] ] : How the experimental method shaped life sciences / / by Pierre V. Vignais, Paulette M. Vignais |
| Autore | Vignais Pierre V |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2010.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Biochemistry
Science - History Biology - Philosophy Biophysics Engineering Life sciences History of Science Philosophy of Biology Technology and Engineering Life Sciences |
| ISBN |
1-283-00167-5
9786613001672 90-481-3767-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The Roots of Experimental Science from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance -- The Birth of the Experimental Method in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- The Impact of Determinism in the Life Sciences of the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Challenges for Experimentation on Living Beings at the Dawn of the 21st Century -- Epilogue. |
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Vignais Pierre V
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