This chapter provides a transition from more specific aspects of natural selection鈥攕election for phage resistance in bacteria along with secondary consequences of that resistance鈥攖o a more general look at natural selection acting on bacteria as caused by phages. In a sense, this is looking ...
•ConceptsandtheNatureofSelectionbyExtinction:IsGeneralizationPossible?LeighM.VanValenNaturalselectionWillleadustoperfection,Asweclimbthehilltowardouradaptivepeak.ButwhatifanearthquakeMakesourhillasadmistakeAnddropsustoa valley,Wherewedarenotdally,ForotherspeciestallyTheirgainswhileweareweak?-Melody: AdestefidelesHere...
A principal task or ethical theory is to understand the place of ethics in the world as we have most reason to believe it to be. Science, as we all know, pictures our species as the upshot of a long history of natural selection. What any of us does stems from nature and nurture, fr...
NATURAL selectionTRANSLATING & interpretingExamines the selectionist terms and concepts and relationships between the concepts. Conflict between the interpretive patterns inherited from ordinary language and the patterns of coherence within the interpretive systems; Conflict of the distincti...
Since the publication of ‘On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life’ (Darwin 1859) various modern species concepts have emerged to address limitations of the traditional species definitions (Taylor et al. 2000; Mayden...
knowledgeandtechnology,onbehalfofthepoliticalpowerandthefinitenessofthelackofsocialcapital.Beliefsandhabits,housingsituation,typeanddensityofvulnerableanddisabledpeople,infrastructureandlifeline.Buttheacademiccommunityhasnotyetreachedaconsensusontheselectionofspecificvariablesorindicatorsthatcharacterizethesefactors(LiHuixia...
(s) used for other service layers. Namely, specify the Uri to the scene service or local .slpk file as the Uri parameter to LayerFactory. If, in your code, you have reference to an item in Catalog that likewise points to a scene service or .slpk then use the item in place of the...
自然灾害风险相关概念(Concepts related to natural disaster risk) Concept and research progress of natural disaster risk According to Shi Peijun et al, the disaster system is composed of factors causing disaster, disaster environment and disaster bodies composed of earth surface system (Shi Peijun, ...
“Organisms” means all living entities; this definition excludes relationships between non-living entities as a possible object of study for ecology. The term “environment” is meant in the sense of “the surrounding world,” i.e., all entities, living or not, which surround a living entity...