Matthew D Herron
Matthew D Herron
Complex life cycles are common in the eukaryotic world, and they complicate the question of how to define individuality. Using a bottom-up, gene-centric approach, I consider the concept of fitness in the context of complex life cycles. I an...
What Is Going on Inside the Arrows? Discovering the Hidden Springs in Causal Models [0.03%]
箭头之内是什么？因果模型中隐藏机制的发现方法
Alexander Murray-Watters,Clark Glymour
Alexander Murray-Watters
Using Gebharter's (2014) representation, we consider aspects of the problem of discovering the structure of unmeasured sub-mechanisms when the variables in those sub-mechanisms have not been measured. Exploiting an early insight of Sober's ...
Sabina Leonelli
Sabina Leonelli
This paper proposes an account of scientific data that makes sense of recent debates on data-driven research, while also building on the history of data production and use particularly within biology. In this view, 'data' is a relational ca...
Bruce S Weir
Bruce S Weir
Characterizing the genetic structure of populations is of importance to evolutionary biology, to human disease gene mapping and to forensic science. Sewall Wright introduced a set of "F-statistics" to describe population structure in 1951 a...
Developmental Systems Theory Formulated as a Claim about Inherited Representations* [0.03%]
论发展系统学是一种关于遗传表征的主张*
Nicholas Shea
Nicholas Shea
Developmental systems theory (DST) is often dismissed on the basis that the causal indispensability of nongenetic factors in evolution and development has long been appreciated. A reformulation makes a more substantive claim: that the speci...
David B Resnik
David B Resnik
When scientific research collides with social values, science's right to self-governance becomes an issue of paramount concern. In this article, I develop an account of scientific autonomy within a framework of public oversight. I argue tha...
N WIENER
N WIENER
G Y RUSK
G Y RUSK
R BAIN
R BAIN
Michael Root
Michael Root
Race is a prominent category in medicine. Epidemiologists describe how rates of morbidity and mortality vary with race, and doctors consider the race of their patients when deciding whether to test them for sickle-cell anemia or what drug t...