Reset
Showing 20 of 2,239 academic articles

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

James R. Griesemer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527296.013

New Patterns in Genetics and Development

C. H. Waddington • Columbia University Press eBooks (1962)

Looks at the impact of advances in genetics on our understanding of the development of multi-cellular organisms and also the older problem of morphogenesis -the appearance of organized structure within a range of sizes from the cellular org...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/wadd92142

Concepts of Genetics

William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings • Own your potential (DEAKIN) (1983)

Part 1 Heredity and the phenotype: cell division - mitosis and meosis Mendalian genetics modification of Mendelian ratios linkage and chromosome mapping in eukaryotes recombination and mapping in bacteria and bacteriophages extensions of ge...

OPENALEX

Genetics and Philosophy

Paul E. Griffiths, Karola C. Stotz • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511744082

Genetics and Reductionism

Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1998)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216

Genetics and the Origin of Species

Th. Dobzhansky • AIBS Bulletin (1952)

Genetics and the Origin of Species Get access Genetics and the Origin of Species. (3rd Edition). Dobzhansky Th.. 364 pp. Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y.$5.00. AIBS Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1952, Page 1...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aibsbulletin/2.2.14-b

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

(1992)

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001

The Anthropology of Christianity

Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass (2008)

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology (1982)

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Veena Das • Annual Review of Anthropology (1998)

▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.171