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Modeling causal structures:Volterra's struggle and Darwin's success
Modeling Causal inference Volterra Predator-prey-model Darwin Coral atolls
2016/6/15
The Lotka-Volterra predator-prey-model is a widely known example of model-based science. Here we reexamine Vito Volterra's and Umberto D'Ancona's original publications on the model, and in particular ...
Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
Descent of Man Adrian Desmond female choice vs. male choice James Moore race sexual selection
2016/5/30
In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend that "Darwin would put his utmost into sexual selection because the subject intrigued him, no doubt, but also for a deeper reason: the ...
The Cancer Council Australia’s Darwin conference – summary of presentations
Australia’s Darwin conference Cancer
2015/3/19
Reducing the impact of cancer on Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander communities: Ways forward, covered a
range of topics spanning research, treatment and cultural
issues.
Household Resource Allocation in Stepfamilies: Darwin Reflects on the Plight of Cinderella
Household Resource Allocation Stepfamilies Darwin Refl ects Plight of Cinderella
2014/3/14
The living conditions of American children have changed dramatically during the past 50 years. In 1950, the vast majority of children were born to married parents and lived with both parents until the...
The Impact of Climate Modes on Summer Temperature and Precipitation of Darwin, Australia, 1870-2011
Climate Modes Teleconnections Climate of Darwin
2013/2/27
Monthly mean summer (DJF) temperature and precipitation from Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN-V3) for the period of 1870-2011, are analyzed to assess the role of teleconnections on climate of D...
Uniqueness of the compactly supported weak solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Darwin system
Vlasov-Darwin weak solutions uniqueness optimal transportation
2011/9/20
Abstract: We use optimal transportation techniques to show uniqueness of the compactly supported weak solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Darwin system. Our proof extends the method used by Loeper in...
Global Classical Solutions of the Relativistic Vlasov-Darwin System with Small Cauchy Data: the Generalized Variables Approach
Vlasov-Darwin Cauchy Problem Global Classical Solutions
2011/8/25
Abstract: We show that a smooth, small enough Cauchy datum launches a unique classical solution of the relativistic Vlasov-Darwin (RVD) system globally in time. A similar result is claimed in Comm. Ma...
Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology
Charles Darwin John F. W. Herschel William Whewell vera causa analogy consilience
2011/9/7
In this essay, I review the relationship between Charles Darwin's methodology and the philosophy of science of Sir John F. W. Herschel. Darwin's exposure to Herschel's philosophy was, I argue, signifi...
Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology
Charles Darwin John F. W. Herschel William Whewell vera causa analogy consilience
2011/9/8
In this essay, I review the relationship between Charles Darwin's methodology and the philosophy of science of Sir John F. W. Herschel. Darwin's exposure to Herschel's philosophy was, I argue, signifi...
Darwin and Reductionisms: Victorian, Neo-Darwinian and Postgenomic Biologies
Darwin Reductionisms Victorian Neo-Darwinian and Postgenomic Biologies
2010/11/16
This article compares the open-ended Darwinism of Charles Darwin, George Lewes, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy with reductive post-Weismann and early eugenist views and more recent neo-Darwinian ideas ...
The concept of the 'curatorial turn' was originally coined by Daniel Birnbaum, director of the 2009 Venice Biennale, and denoted interest in the exhibition as an alternative to the book by contemporar...
Darwin as Metaphor
Darwin Metaphor
2010/11/16
In response to Steven Shapin’s query in the London Review of Books, 'Why such homage?', I look at Darwin as a metaphor for creativity, and how Darwin, as evidenced in his own metaphysical notebooks, i...
After Darwin's Plots
Darwin Plots
2010/11/16
Beer’s short essay reflects on three essays which were originally delivered as papers during the 2009 autumn session of the London Nineteenth-Century Studies seminar.
Introduction: Science, Literature, and the Darwin Legacy
Introduction Science Literature Darwin Legacy
2010/11/16
Introduction: Science, Literature, and the Darwin Legacy.
Earthworms: Charles Darwin’s ‘Unheralded Soldiers of Mankind’: Protective & Productive for Man & Environment
Detoxifying Disinfecting Waste Degradation Wastewater Purification Soil Decontamination Soil Fertil-ity Crop Production Earthworms Medicines Nutritive Feed
2013/3/13
Earthworms promises to provide cheaper solutions to several social, economic and environmental problems plaguing the human society. Earthworms can safely manage all municipal and industrial organic wa...