evolution and the levels of selection jan 2007
... resolve a number of outstanding philosophical debates over the levels of selection. The ‘additivity criterion’ of Lloyd and Wimsatt 4 Evolution and the Levels of Selection description of evolutionary ... 203 8. Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions 218 Bibliography 241 Index 257 36 Evolution and the Levels of Selection wh...
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... on the DNA (Fig. 1.14). The polymerase enzyme then synthesizes the DNA strand next to the primers. The solution is then heated and cooled in numerous cycles, and the DNA is amplified over and ... framework of species change and demon- strate the intimacy of nature and crop evolution. In the second half of the book, I focus on when and where crops were dome...
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... dangerous idea: the algorithmic level is the level that best accounts for the speed of the antelope, the wing of the eagle, the shape of the orchid, the diversity of species, and all the other occasions ... aspirations to understand these phenomena in the deep ways of theory. I spoke with Conway once about the creation of the Game of Life, and h...
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charles babbage and the engines of perfection jan 1999
... = 10 0.47712 , and 6 = 10 0.77815 . That is, Notice that the sum of the logarithms of 2 and 3 is the logarithm of 6: since 2 ϫ 3 = 6, then log 2 ϩ log 3 = log 6. With a table of logarithms, ... is shown in the table on the following page. The numbers in the last column are the squares of the numbers in the first column. All Anne and Bob needed was very sim...
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melancholic freedom agency and the spirit of politics jun 2007
... virtue of the attraction of the consumma- tions but also in virtue of the kind of life and kind of subject that these desires properly belong to. 13 The hermeneutical operation of agency lies in the ... construed. 28 In other words, the critical effects of skepticism, doubt, and the rational ordering of the world (what Max Weber called ‘ the rationalizatio...
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trials of reason plato and the crafting of philosophy jan 2008
... hand, there has been misconception of the form and meaning of the argu- ments through importing into them logical and conceptual material foreign to the author and his times. On the other, there ... with views of the brothers and Hippias as wise and then undermine these. Indeed, many of the dialogues introduce authoritative figures only to undermine their authori...
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behind the berlin wall east germany and the frontiers of power jan 2010
... word of the SED Central Committee resolution on the results of the Moscow talks. Straight after reading the communiqu ´ eoftheMoscowtalksIgaineda full insight into the certainty of victory of the ... deficiencies on the shop-floor and in the health, education and retail sectors, ‘unrelentingly’ and ‘with the support of the public, regardless of personal sta...
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epistemic injustice power and the ethics of knowing aug 2007
... social-imaginative conceptions of the social identities of those implicated in the particular operation of power. The rest of Chapter 1 is devoted to presenting the main idea of the book, in that it characterizes the primary ... Leeds, Oxford, Sussex, and Warwick, at the LSE and Birkbeck College in the University of London, and at the 2006 annual conference...
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