CRISPR: a new principle of genome engineering linked to conceptual shifts in evolutionary biology [0.03%]
CRISPR：基因编辑新原理及其对生物学概念转变的影响
Eugene V Koonin
Eugene V Koonin
The CRISPR-Cas systems of bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity have become a household name among biologists and even the general public thanks to the unprecedented success of the new generation of genome editing tools utilizing Cas pro...
How to use fitness landscape models for the analysis of collective decision-making: a case of theory-transfer and its limitations [0.03%]
如何利用适应度景观模型分析集体决策：理论迁移及其局限性的案例分析
Peter Marks,Lasse Gerrits,Johannes Marx
Peter Marks
There is considerable correspondence between theories and models used in biology and the social sciences. One type of model that is in use in both biology and the social sciences is the fitness landscape model. The properties of the fitness...
Sophie Juliane Veigl
Sophie Juliane Veigl
Relating traditional and academic ecological knowledge: mechanistic and holistic epistemologies across cultures [0.03%]
传统知识与学术生态知识的关系：跨文化的实证论和整体论认识论
David Ludwig,Luana Poliseli
David Ludwig
Current debates about the integration of traditional and academic ecological knowledge (TEK and AEK) struggle with a dilemma of division and assimilation. On the one hand, the emphasis on differences between traditional and academic perspec...
Evolutionary arguments against moral realism: Why the empirical details matter (and which ones do) [0.03%]
演化论反道德实在论观点：实证细节很重要（哪些细节重要）
Jeroen Hopster
Jeroen Hopster
The aim of this article is to identify the strongest evolutionary debunking argument (EDA) against moral realism and to assess on which empirical assumptions it relies. In the recent metaethical literature, several authors have de-emphasize...
Synthetic versus analytic approaches to protein and DNA structure determination [0.03%]
蛋白质和DNA结构测定的合成方法与分析方法
Agnes Bolinska
Agnes Bolinska
The structures of protein and DNA were discovered primarily by means of synthesizing component-level information about bond types, lengths, and angles, rather than analyzing X-ray diffraction photographs of these molecules. In this paper, I...
Radu Cornel Guiaşu,Christopher W Tindale
Radu Cornel Guiaşu
Leading invasion biologists sometimes dismiss critics and criticisms of their field by invoking "the straw man" fallacy. Critics of invasion biology are also labelled as a small group of "naysayers" or "contrarians", who are sometimes engag...
Marion Godman
Marion Godman
Is there anything that members of each binary category of gender have in common? Even many non-essentialists find the lack of unity within a gender worrying as it undermines the basis for a common political agenda for women. One promising p...
David Parker
David Parker
The terms "paradigm" and "paradigm shift" originated in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. A paradigm can be defined as the generally accepted concepts and practices of a field, and a paradigm shift its replacement in...
A Cladist is a systematist who seeks a natural classification: some comments on Quinn (2017) [0.03%]
关于Quinn(2017)的几点评论：一个 cladist 是寻求自然分类法的系统学家
David M Williams,Malte C Ebach
David M Williams
In response to Quinn (Biol Philos, 2017. 10.1007/s10539-017-9577-z) we identify cladistics to be about natural classifications and their discovery and thereby propose to add an eighth cladistic definition to Quinn's list, namely the systema...