History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Chiang

Hermaphroditism as a Natural Anomaly Escalated publicity on surgical attempts at changing sex, on top of a novel biochemical interpretation of the castrated body, led to a renewed interest in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:David R. Montgomery

9 Recycled Tales CENTURIES BEFORE GEORGE SMITH discovered that the opening chapters of the Bible were reworked Babylonian tales, controversy over the authorship of the Bible centered on how to ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Illari, Phyllis; Russo, Federica;

Core ideas • In causal inference, possible causes are ruled in and ruled out using what we know about possible causal links. But what is a causal link? • An ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Gillispie, Charles Coulston Coulston;

Glancing through the above writings, and turning over many handsome plates, one may at first take them for a continuation in revolutionary circumstances of the treatment accorded arts and crafts ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Timothy Taylor

( Category: Evolution December 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:E. O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

TO TAKE behavioral genes into account therefore seems a prudent step when assessing human behavior. Sociobiology (or Darwinian anthropology, or evolutionary psychology, or whatever more politically acceptable term one chooses ...
( Category: Philosophy December 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:P. A. Durbin, B. A. Pettersson Reif

( Category: Physics December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Isabelle Stengers

Slowing down … The right to ‘slowness’ is not an end in itself, nor does it refer to the way some researchers ask to be ‘left alone’ so they can ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Larrie D. Ferreiro

IX The Dance of the Stars “I am as constant as the northern star,” wrote Shakespeare, a line Voltaire may well have recounted to his friend La Condamine in 1735 ...
( Category: World December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Wagner, Günter P.;

Definitions and Models In the sciences and elsewhere, it is usually good advice to define a term when it is first used in a text or in a talk. The ...
( Category: Evolution December 9,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-09-16 | Author:Peter Galison [Galison, Peter]

Figure 4.4 Hunting the Ether. With a remarkable series of experiments, Albert Michelson sought to measure the earth’s motion through the elusive ether. In the 1881 device shown here, he ...
( Category: Physics December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

MAKING PLANETS Armed with this understanding of the geography of the Solar System, we can begin to understand how the planets formed, and why the Solar System is special. Working ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science December 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

29. Drawing of HMS Beagle, from Darwin’s Journal of Researches, 1845. Darwin’s time as an undergraduate in Cambridge followed the pattern he had established in his later months in Edinburgh; ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Edward McPherson

Chasing the Boundary: Boom and Bust on the High Prairie Once again, the story begins with fire, some primeval attraction to light in the darkness. A time-lapse video looking down ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:Giorgio Agamben [Agamben, Giorgio]

The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences By Ettore Majorana translated by Rosario Nunzio Mantegna 1. THE CONCEPT OF NATURE ACCORDING TO CLASSICAL PHYSICS The study of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 23,2018 )