Where Now O Biologists Is Your Theory

Author : Andrew P. Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597525936
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Now, O Biologists, is Your Theory? written by Andrew P. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Design creationism faults evolutionary biology for being ``naturalistic,'' but ID is in its own strange way just as naturalistic. Like the man who can't find his car-keys at night and looks for them under a street-light, though he last saw the keys someplace else, intelligent design creationism seeks acts of God within the gaps in our scientific knowledge. Creation takes the goodness of this world on faith, but Creationism works to get out of the challenge of the doctrine of creation, not to embrace it.

Author : Wilhelmina A. Leigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351490834
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketching Theoretical Biology written by Wilhelmina A. Leigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology. Based on the assumption that living systems represent some kind of "organized complexity," the collection discusses meaningful ways of formulating two basic questions: what is the nature of this complexity; and, what are the principles of its organization? The question always asked about biological theory is whether or not it constitutes useful scientific theory. Because many useful biological theories cannot yet be made explicit in terms of conventional physics, Sketching Theoretical Biology illustrates the types of questions in biology that correspond to the types of issues discussed in theoretical physics. This book, originally published in 1969, centers around a vigorous debate on the role played by metaphysical beliefs in determining scientific attitudes. The discussion covers heredity and evolution, cognitive processes and control processes, general property of hierarchies, and the current status of neo-Darwinism. Contributors include theoretical physicists, philosophers, neuroscientists, theoretical chemists, computer scientists, chemical engineers, geneticists and molecular biologists.

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Biology written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Princeton Review (Firm)
Publisher : Princeton Review
ISBN 13 : 1524710601
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cracking the AP Biology Exam 2018, Premium Edition written by Princeton Review (Firm) and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides techniques for achieving high scores on the AP biology exam and includes 4 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030913417X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Theory in Advancing 21st-Century Biology written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists' theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, affecting what experiments they do, what techniques and technologies they develop and use, and how they interpret their data. By examining how theory can help biologists answer questions like "What are the engineering principles of life?" or "How do cells really work?" the report shows how theory synthesizes biological knowledge from the molecular level to the level of whole ecosystems. The book concludes that theory is already an inextricable thread running throughout the practice of biology; but that explicitly giving theory equal status with other components of biological research could help catalyze transformative research that will lead to creative, dynamic, and innovative advances in our understanding of life.

Author : John R. Nofsinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000050203
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Investing written by John R. Nofsinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people’s financial and economic preferences vary so widely? ‘Nurture’ variables such as socioeconomic factors partially explain these differences, but scientists have been discovering that ‘nature’ also plays an important role. This is the first book to bring together these scientific insights for a holistic view of the role of human biology in financial decision-making. Geneticists are now examining which genetic markers are associated with financial and economic preferences. Neuroscientists are now determining where in the brain financial decisions are made and how that varies between people. Endocrinologists relate the level of different hormones circulating in the body to financial risk-taking. Researchers are exploring how physiology and environmental conditions influence investment decisions, and how three types of cognitive ability play essential roles in investment success. This exciting and relevant work being done in these academic silos has generally not been transmitted among the scientific areas, or to industry. For the first time, this book integrates all these areas, explaining the myriad ways in which a person’s biology influences their investing decisions. Financial analysts, advisors, market participants, and upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of behavioral finance, behavioral economics, and investing will find this book invaluable, enabling a deeper understanding of investors’ decision-making processes. To further ensure this new material is accessible to students, PowerPoint slides are available online for instructors’ use.

Author : Freeman J. Dyson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814675865
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Professor Dyson written by Freeman J. Dyson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed quantum mechanics to be consistent with electrodynamics and started cosmological eschatology; he has won international recognition for his work in science and for his work in reconciling science to religion; he has advised generals and congressional committees. An STS (Science, Technology, Society) curriculum or discussion group that engages topics such as nuclear policies, genetic technologies, environmental sustainability, the role of religion in a scientific society, and a hard look towards the future, would count itself privileged to include Professor Dyson as a class participant and mentor. In this book, STS topics are not discussed as objectified abstractions, but through personal stories. The reader is invited to observe Dyson's influence on a generation of young people as they wrestle with issues of science, technology, society, life in general and our place in the universe. The book is filled with personal anecdotes, student questions and responses, honest doubts and passions"--

Author : Bradford McCall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725278537
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity written by Bradford McCall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.

Author : Kurt Wuthrich
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811228221
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Modeling: From Chemistry To Materials To Biology - Proceedings Of The 25th Solvay Conference On Chemistry written by Kurt Wuthrich and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaired by K Wüthrich (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2002) and co-chaired by B Weckhuysen, this by-invitation-only conference has gathered 39 participants — who are leaders in the field of computational modeling and its applications in Chemistry, Material Sciences and Biology. Highlights of the Conference Proceedings are short, prepared statements by all the participants and the records of lively discussions on the current and future perspectives in the field of computational modeling, from chemistry to materials to biology.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
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