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Complex vocal learning and three-dimensional mating environments
Complex vocal learning, the capacity to imitate new sounds, underpins the evolution of animal vocal cultures and song dialects and is a key...
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Physiology of Taste and Intentionality in John Blund’s Tractatus De Anima
In the beginning of the thirteenth century, the circulation of Aristotle’s natural philosophy books deeply changed the ways in which the...
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Contemporary Turkish Prison Experience
This chapter commences with a succinct overview of the civil actions instigated against the Hizmet movement, instigated by the 17–25 December 2013...
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Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy
This chapter attempts a critical comparison between African philosophy and Islamic philosophy. Bello traces the career of Islamic philosophy from its...
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The moral code in Islam and organ donation in Western countries: reinterpreting religious scriptures to meet utilitarian medical objectives
End-of-life organ donation is controversial in Islam. The controversy stems from: (1) scientifically flawed medical criteria of death determination;...
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Avicenna and Husserl: Comparative Aspects
Philosophical continuity between medieval philosophy represented by Avicenna and analytic philosophy embodied by Husserl can be traced in a...
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Lifting the veil: a typological survey of the methodological features of Islamic ethical reasoning on biomedical issues
We survey the meta-ethical tools and institutional processes that traditional Islamic ethicists apply when deliberating on bioethical issues. We...
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Hierarchy of organization in eukaryotic chromosomes (a review)
Several models of macromolecular arrangements in eukaryotic chromosomes have been proposed during the past fifteen years. Many of the models are...
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Die Ontogenese der Vögel als Evolutionsproblem
This paper tries to trace the different evolutional stages the egg of primitive chordates had to pass through to reach the complex state of the bird...