Solly Zuckerman: the making of a primatological career in Britain, 1925-1945 [0.03%]
苏利·扎克曼:一只英国灵长类动物学家的成长之路(1925-1945)
Jonathan Burt
Jonathan Burt
Solly Zuckerman's work has been largely dismissed or marginalized by both historians of primatology and primatologists. This paper, using archival and published materials, re-examines both his life and his research into primate sexuality an...
Yerkes, Hamilton and the experimental study of the ape mind: from evolutionary psychiatry to eugenic politics [0.03%]
耶克斯、汉密尔顿与黑猩猩心智的实验研究:从进化精神病学到优生政治学
Marion Thomas
Marion Thomas
Robert Yerkes is a pivotal figure in American psychology and primatology in the first half of the twentieth century. As is well known, Yerkes first studied ape intelligence in 1915, on a visit to the private California laboratory of the psy...
Marshall Abrams
Marshall Abrams
One finds intertwined with ideas at the core of evolutionary theory claims about frequencies in counterfactual and infinitely large populations of organisms, as well as in sets of populations of organisms. One also finds claims about freque...
Thomas A C Reydon
Thomas A C Reydon
Species in biology are traditionally perceived as kinds of organisms about which explanatory and predictive generalizations can be made, and biologists commonly use species in this manner. This perception of species is, however, in stark co...
Education or degeneration: E. Ray Lankester, H. G. Wells and the outline of history [0.03%]
教育还是堕落:E·雷·兰克斯特、H·G·威尔斯与《世界简史》
Richard Barnett
Richard Barnett
This paper uses the friendship and collaboration of Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929), zoologist, and Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), novelist and journalist, to challenge the current interpretation of late Victorian concern over degenerati...
The brain under the knife: serial sectioning and the development of late nineteenth-century neuroanatomy [0.03%]
脑髓横切:19世纪晚期神经解剖学中的系列切片法及其发展
Heini Hakosalo
Heini Hakosalo
Major changes took place during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the ways that the brain tissue was maintained, manipulated and studied, and, consequently, in the ways that its structure, functions and pathologies were seen and...
Locke and botany [0.03%]
洛克和植物学
Peter R Anstey,Stephen A Harris
Peter R Anstey
This paper argues that the English philosopher John Locke, who has normally been thought to have had only an amateurish interest in botany, was far more involved in the botanical science of his day than has previously been known. Through th...
Ellen Clarke
Ellen Clarke
In A Darwinian left Peter Singer aims to reconcile Darwinian theory with left wing politics, using evolutionary game theory and in particular a model proposed by Robert Axelrod, which shows that cooperation can be an evolutionarily successf...
Philip M Rosoff,Alex Rosenberg
Philip M Rosoff
Genetic determinism labels the morally problematical claim that some socially significant traits, traits we care about, such as sexual orientation, gender roles, violence, alcoholism, mental illness, intelligence, are largely the results of...
Matteo Mameli
Matteo Mameli
Normative standards are often applied to emotions. Are there normative standards that apply to emotions in virtue solely of facts about their nature? I will argue that the answer is no. The psychological, behavioural, and neurological evide...