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philosophy is an integral part of the doing of biology. Given this, it is more important than ever to undertake a practical assessment of what philosophy does mean and should mean to biologists. Here, I
The high rate of return on investments in research and development in agriculture, estimated at between 20- and 40-fold, provides a strong rationale for increasing financial support for such research. Furthermore, the urgency to provide sufficient nutrition for a growing population amid growing demands for an expanding bioeconomy, while facing population growth and changing...
. This paper investigates the political position of teachers in Algeria during the War of Independence from France (1954-62). Although teachers were agents of the French state, and active in facilitating ... teachers, and how teachers sought to balance their duties of service to education with their political resistance to colonialism. However, we also recognise the heterogeneity of the teaching corps, and the
We report evidence that individual-level variation in people's physiological and attentional responses to aversive and appetitive stimuli are correlated with broad political orientations ... orientations. Specifically, we find that greater orientation to aversive stimuli tends to be associated with right-of-centre and greater orientation to appetitive (pleasing) stimuli with left-of-centre political
, political and military control by standing above the Mexican Constitution and political institutions. Slowly but surely they put forward their interests in order to increase their profits in this greedy ... defining itself for more than three decades through the reforms that have been forced upon every economic, political, social and cultural sphere. This allows them to pave the way and hastily impose without
competition to treat the number and identity of political parties as an output of, rather than an input to, the process of party competition. Party birth is modelled as an endogenous change of agent type from ... article or click here References Email alerting service To subscribe to Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B go to: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/subscriptions Spatial models of political competition with
theoretical explanations of fertility decline, the political framing of population by womens health advocates at the time of Cairo, evidence of the many barriers to fertility regulation, and the importance of ... of high levels of western consumption on the environment. Conservative political and religious forces, especially in the USA, have worked to reduce attention to the need for family planning. Thinking
ancestors, we are complex political, economic, scientific and artistic creatures, living in a vast range of habitats, many of which are our own creation. Research on the evolution of human cognition asks what ... species, and integrates findings from anthropology, archaeology, economics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. Using these methods, recent research reveals profound commonalities
, we examined the extent to which similar or dissimilar processes were recruited when considering the attitudes of political ingroup and outgroup candidates. Brain regions involved in social cognition ... in perspective-taking tendency may be more apparent when the target of judgement is a political candidate than when the target is a completely unknown individual (as in previous neuroimaging research
Traditional investigations of the evolution of human social and political institutions trace their ancestry back to nineteenth century social scientists such as Herbert Spencer, and have concentrated ... -political evolution. We find support for three ideas often associated with Spencerian cultural evolutionary theory: (i) political organization has evolved through a regular sequence of forms, (ii) increases
Might Hit You With a Pocket Protector". 20. Silverstein, Illana. "First Contact: Improvisational Dance on Campus". 32. Dunson, Jim. "Philosophy of Pecan Pie: The Culmination of a Grand Tradition of Cu ... the Dole- keep me grounded and far from the heart of any republican, but the only explanation that I can offer is that love drums knows no boundaries, even political ones. My friends warned me against
hotly contested cultural landscape. In the debate over the future of what remains of the prison campus, competing political perspectives have yielded proposals that prescribe drastically different ... divide split Northern Ireland along several identity lines: national (Irish/British), religious (Catholic/Protestant), political (Separatist (Nationalist)/Unionist), and sectarian (Republican/Loyalist
introductory article to a Theme Issue on metacognition, we review recent and rapidly progressing developments from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of mind. While each of these ... politician should hold office, but also about the political structure itself, as when a referendum is held on the voting system. This consultation may lead, in effect, to the political structure changing
-political and primitive. It will become patently clear that terms such as “pre-political,” “primitive,” and “unorganized” are outdated and require alternative methods of postcolonial analysis. As way to ... the most part pre-political and therefore have not reached political consciousness—in the “western” modality of political philosophy. Thus, “…all of the phenomena studied in this book belong to the
the basis for computing appropriate semantic generalizations. Multiple disciplines (e.g. philosophy, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience and behavioural neurology) have striven to answer the ... multiple literatures, including philosophy and cognitive science (for careful discussion of related ideas, including grounding by interaction, see [26]). In addition, contemplation of the nature of different
trafficking. Nevertheless, through the implementation of an autonomous government based on the P'urhépecha uses and customs, the municipality of Cherán is developing novel political and social strategies to
longer trajectories of political, criminal and structural violence including war, neoliberal restructuring and the hemispheric war on drugs. I pay particular attention to the ways state and transnational
that influence their ability to persist in the UK, and describe a qualitative framework of factors that influence the political response to a livestock disease. We develop simple transmission models for ... different aspects of within- and between-farm processes, which has economic, legal and political implications for control. We consider how these pathogens, and Mycobacterium bovis (the agent of bovine
power relations among political elite, drug cartels, and local communities. Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad was borne out of the frustration and outrage of the Mexican people to the ... Temporary Exhibits at Mexico City’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance. Mónica González received her BA in Communications from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University
and projections for LAC regarding current strategies for achieving this target and to critically review the political, economic and geographical factors related to the successful elimination of this ... in the context of the difficulties and challenges of the region. The strong political and technical commitment to control rabies in LAC in the 1980s, started with the regional programme coordinated by