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Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, Vol 13, Pp 1-23 (2021)
Phenotypic plasticity, or an organism’s capacity to change its phenotype in response to environmental variation, is a pervasive—perhaps even ubiquitous—feature of the biological world. Accordingly, plasticity research suggests serious implicati
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/92c77126601f4760aa8aa0989eaf89d1
Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 90:285-297
Phylogenetic models traditionally represent the history of life as having a strictly-branching tree structure. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the history of life is often not strictly-branching; lateral gene transfer, endosymbiosis,
Publikováno v:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Autor:
Rory Smead, Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
Economics and Philosophy. 36:324-330
Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 36
On the basis of findings from developmental biology, some researchers have argued that evolutionary theory needs to be significantly updated. Advocates of such a “developmental update” have, among other things, suggested that we need to re-concep
Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
History and philosophy of the life sciences. 43(3)
Menopause is an evolutionary mystery: how could living longer with no capacity to reproduce possibly be advantageous? Several explanations have been offered for why female humans, unlike our closest primate relatives, have such an extensive post-repr
Autor:
Aja Watkins, Federica Bocchi
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 35
In their paper “How Causal are Microbiomes? A Comparison with the Helicobacter pylori Explanation of Ulcers,” Lynch, Parke, and O’Malley successfully argue that certain causal attributions made to the microbiome have not satisfied Koch’s post
Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
The Quarterly Review of Biology. 96:211-211
Autor:
Aja Watkins
Publikováno v:
Journal on Policy and Complex Systems. 4