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Author : Institute of Biology. Charter Symposium
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Biology, Society, and Choice written by Institute of Biology. Charter Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institute of Biology. Charter Symposium
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Biology, Society and Choice written by Institute of Biology. Charter Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309051320
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Society's Choices written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-03-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and cultureâ€"and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.
Author : Ronald Noë
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521003995
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Economics in Nature written by Ronald Noë and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of sexual selection, interspecific mutualism, and intraspecific cooperation show that individuals exchange commodities to their mutual benefit. The exchange values of commodities are a source of conflict, and behavioral mechanisms such as partner choice and contest between competitors determines the composition of trading pairs or groups. These "biological markets" can be examined to gain a better understanding of the underlying principles of evolutionary ecology. In this volume scientists from different disciplines combine insights from economics, evolutionary biology, and the social sciences to look at comparative aspects of economic behavior in humans and other animals.
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ISBN 13 : 9780900490163
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biology, society and choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurizio Meloni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137528796
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society written by Maurizio Meloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate how nuanced attention to both the biological and social sciences opens up novel perspectives upon some of the most significant sociological, anthropological, philosophical and biological questions of our era. The six sections cover topics ranging from genomics and epigenetics, to neuroscience and psychology to social epidemiology and medicine. The authors collaboratively present state-of-the-art research and perspectives in some of the most intriguing areas of what can be called biosocial and biocultural approaches, demonstrating how quickly we are moving beyond the acrimonious debates that characterized the border between biology and society for most of the twentieth century. This landmark volume will be an extremely valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in all areas of the social and biological sciences. The chapter 'Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Versions of the chapters 'The Transcendence of the Social', 'Scrutinizing the Epigenetics Revolution', 'Species of Biocapital, 2008, and Speciating Biocapital, 2017' and 'Experimental Entanglements: Social Science and Neuroscience Beyond Interdisciplinarity' are available open access via third parties. For further information please see license information in the chapters or on link.springer.com.
Author : A. C. White
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434903397
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Choices written by A. C. White and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190299320
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society written by Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an overview of research on the interaction of biological and sociological processes. Issues explored include: the origins of social solidarity; religious beliefs; sex differences; gender inequality; human happiness; social stratification and inequality; identity, status, and other group processes; race, ethnicity, and discrimination; fertility and family processes; crime and deviance; cultural and social change.
Author : Sabine Maasen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401106738
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors written by Sabine Maasen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: not lie in the conceptual distinctions but in the perceived functions of metaphors and whether in the concrete case they are judged positive or negative. The ongoing debates reflect these concerns quite clearly~ namely that metaphors are judged on the basis of supposed dangers they pose and opportunities they offer. These are the criteria of evaluation that are obviously dependent on the context in which the transfer of meaning occurs. Our fundamental concern is indeed the transfer itself~ its prospects and its limits. Looking at possible functions of metaphors is one approach to under standing and elucidating sentiments about them. The papers in this volume illustrate, by quite different examples, three basic functions of metaphors: illustrative, heuristic~ and constitutive. These functions rep resent different degrees of transfer of meaning. Metaphors are illustrative when they are used primarily as a literary device, to increase the power of conviction of an argument, for example. Although the difference between the illustrative and the heuristic function of metaphors is not great, it does exist: metaphors are used for heuristic purposes whenever "differences" of meaning are employed to open new perspectives and to gain new insights. In the case of "constitutive" metaphors they function to actually replace previous meanings by new ones. Sabine Maasen in her paper introduces the distinction between transfer and transforma tion.
Author : Erik Svensson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199595372
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology written by Erik Svensson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated in 1932. This volume brings together historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, to discuss the state of the art from several different perspectives.
Author : Barrie G M Jamieson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482280515
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds, Part B: Sexual Selection, Behavior, Conservation, Embryology and Genetics written by Barrie G M Jamieson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of volume 6 discusses sexual selection of ultraviolet and structural signals; melanins and carotenoids as feather colorants and signals; sexual selection and auditory signaling; odors and chemical signaling; sexual dimorphism; sexual selection, signal selection and the handicap principle; courtship and copulation; sexual conflict an
Author : Patrick Spread
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136172327
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society written by Patrick Spread and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic – the propensity to seek support – that has given rise to group formation and the evolution of human society.
Author : Barrie G M Jamieson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439843589
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes, Vol 8B: Part B: Sperm Competion Hormones written by Barrie G M Jamieson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animals loosely termed fish constitute more than half of all known vertebrate species. There are approximately 27,000 described living species of bony fishes (Euteleostomi = Osteichthyes), about 70 species of hagfishes and some 34 species of lampreys. Approximately 970 species are chondrichthyans, the sharks and their relatives, which were the subject of volume 3 in this series. It is perhaps because fishes live in a buoyant medium, whether it be fresh or sea water, that they show a diversity in body shapes that is unparalleled by other vertebrates. There is also a unique diversity in the modes of reproduction, whether by external or internal fertilization, and this, with the morphology and fine structure of the reproductive system and its components, is the subject of Part A. Part B deals with complementary topics: testes, sperm, and sperm competition; endocrinology of reproduction; pheromones and reproduction; copulatory structures: taxonomic overview and the potential for sexual selection; sexual selection: signaling and courtship; adaptation and evolution of reproductive mode in copulating cottoid species; fertilization; sex determination; parental care; reproduction in relation to conservation and exploitation of marine fishes; Cryopreservation of Gametes; Embryogenesis and Development; and Molecular Genetics of Development.
Author : Anne Charmantier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019967423X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Quantitative Genetics in the Wild written by Anne Charmantier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the expertise of 30 evolutionary biologists from around the globe to highlight how applying the field of quantitative genetics - the analysis of the genetic basis of complex traits - aids in the study of wild populations.
Author : Robert Arking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195167392
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Biology of Aging written by Robert Arking and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Arking's Biology of Aging is an introductory text to the biology of aging which gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students a thorough review of the entire field. The mass of data related to aging is summarized into fifteen focused chapters, each dealing with some particular aspect of the problem. His prior two editions have also served admirably as a reference text for clinicians and scientists. This new edition captures the extraordinary recent advances in our knowledge of the ultimate and proximal mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of aging.
Author : Erika L. Milam
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080189817X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Looking for a Few Good Males written by Erika L. Milam and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the fascinating patterns of experiment and interpretation that emerged as twentieth-century researchers studied sexual selection and female choice. Approaching the topic from both biological and animal-studies perspectives, Milam not only presents a broad history of sexual selection—from Darwin to sociobiology—but also analyzes the animal-human continuum from the perspectives of sex, evolution, and behavior. She asks how social and cultural assumptions influence human-animal research and wonders about the implications of gender on scientific outcomes. Although female choice appears to be a straightforward theoretical concept, the study of sexual selection has been anything but simple. Scientists in the early twentieth century investigated female choice in animals but did so with human social and sexual behavior as their ultimate objective. By the 1940s, evolutionary biologists and population geneticists shifted their focus, studying instead how evolution affected natural animal populations. Two decades later, organismal biologists once again redefined the investigation of sexual selection as sociobiology came to dominate the discipline. Outlining the ever-changing history of this field of study, Milam uncovers lost mid-century research programs and finds that the discipline did not languish in the decades between Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and sociobiology, as observers commonly believed. Rather, population geneticists, ethologists, and organismal biologists alike continued to investigate this important theory throughout the twentieth century.
Author : Kaja Finkler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217209
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Experiencing the New Genetics written by Kaja Finkler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing the New Genetics will lead scholars and general readers alike to question how far genetic inheritance affects our selves and our future.
