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Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease
Disability studies have been successfully focusing on individuals' lived experiences, the personalization of goals, and the constitution of the...
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Of Yeasts and Humans
Humankind, the biological species Homo sapiens , lives today in a very different world from the one for which it was evolutionarily selected in the...
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Rage against the what? The machine metaphor in biology
Machine metaphors abound in life sciences: animals as automata, mitochondria as engines, brains as computers. Philosophers have criticized machine...
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How (not) to Talk to a Plant: An Application of Automata Theory to Plant Communication
Plants are capable of a range of complex interactions with the environment. Over the last decade, some authors have used this as evidence to argue...
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Why Is the Frequency of a Risk More Important than Its Severity in Retaining Adaptive Information? A Multilevel Analysis of Human Evolution Using Snakes as Models
Human beings have a memory adapted to primarily retain and recall information that favors their survival and reproduction. We tested whether the...
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Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), biomedical sciences have moved away from a gene-centred view and towards a multi-factorial...
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Rethinking life and predicting its origin
The definition, origin and recreation of life remain elusive. As others have suggested, only once we put life into reductionist physical terms will...
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A critical review of plant sentience: moving beyond traditional approaches
Are plants sentient? Several researchers argue that plants might be sentient. They do so on the grounds that plants exhibit cognitive behaviour...
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Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts
This paper analyzes three multiscale modeling techniques that are commonly used in biology and physics and uses those cases to construct a normative...
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Application of network pharmacology in synergistic action of Chinese herbal compounds
Herbal medicines are frequently blended in the form of multi-drug combinations primarily based on the precept of medicinal compatibility, to achieve...
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Paths of Purposiveness
This article aims to challenge the prevailing dichotomous approaches to goal-directedness across diverse scientific disciplines. To that effect, it...
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A Prelude: From Slovak Mountains to Cognitive Biology
The main aim of this article is to provide a short overview of the research that gradually culminated in the concept of cognitive biology. To a...
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Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax
Eating is a fundamental behavior in which all organisms must engage in order to procure the material and energy from their environment that they need...
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Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA May Lead to Dioecy in Conifers
In angiosperms cytoplasmic DNA is typically passed on maternally through ovules. Genes in the mtDNA may cause male sterility. When male-sterile...
