Alcune segnalazioni di avvenuta o prossima pubblicazione di libri sull’argomento:
Stephen Shennan. Genes, Memes and Human History. Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution. Thames&Hudson
Michael J. Benton. When Life Nearly Died The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time . Thames&Hudson
Michael Ruse. Darwin and Design. Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Harvard University Press
Monday, March 03, 2003
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Due citazioni recenti su aspetti ancora controversi dei meccanismi dell’evoluzione:
Martin, W.; Russell, M. J.
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells
Philosophical Transactions- Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 2003, vol. 358, no. 1429, pp. 59-86
Pfeiffer T, Bonhoeffer S.
An evolutionary scenario for the transition to undifferentiated multicellularity
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Feb 4;100(3):1095-8.
Ancora su Teoria dell’evoluzione e medicina:
Bangham, C. R.
What can evolutionary theory do for infectious diseases?
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2003, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 68-69
Du Pasquier L, Courtney Smith L.
Workshop report: evolutionary immunobiology-new approaches, new paradigms
Dev Comp Immunol. 2003 Apr;27(4):263-71
Warr GW, Chapman RW, Smith LC.
Evolutionary immunobiology: new approaches, new paradigms
Dev Comp Immunol. 2003 Apr;27(4):257-62
Wick G, Berger P, Jansen-Durr P, Grubeck-Loebenstein B.
A Darwinian-evolutionary concept of age-related diseases
Exp Gerontol. 2003 Jan;38(1-2):13-25.
Vineis P, Matullo G, Manuguerra M.
An evolutionary paradigm for carcinogenesis?
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 Feb;57(2):89-95.
Vineis P.
Cancer as an evolutionary process at the cell level: an epidemiological perspective
Carcinogenesis. 2003 Jan;24(1):1-6.
Silverstein AM.
Darwinism and immunology: from Metchnikoff to Burnet
Nat Immunol. 2003 Jan;4(1):3-6. Review
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Martin, W.; Russell, M. J.
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells
Philosophical Transactions- Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 2003, vol. 358, no. 1429, pp. 59-86
Pfeiffer T, Bonhoeffer S.
An evolutionary scenario for the transition to undifferentiated multicellularity
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Feb 4;100(3):1095-8.
Ancora su Teoria dell’evoluzione e medicina:
Bangham, C. R.
What can evolutionary theory do for infectious diseases?
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2003, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 68-69
Du Pasquier L, Courtney Smith L.
Workshop report: evolutionary immunobiology-new approaches, new paradigms
Dev Comp Immunol. 2003 Apr;27(4):263-71
Warr GW, Chapman RW, Smith LC.
Evolutionary immunobiology: new approaches, new paradigms
Dev Comp Immunol. 2003 Apr;27(4):257-62
Wick G, Berger P, Jansen-Durr P, Grubeck-Loebenstein B.
A Darwinian-evolutionary concept of age-related diseases
Exp Gerontol. 2003 Jan;38(1-2):13-25.
Vineis P, Matullo G, Manuguerra M.
An evolutionary paradigm for carcinogenesis?
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 Feb;57(2):89-95.
Vineis P.
Cancer as an evolutionary process at the cell level: an epidemiological perspective
Carcinogenesis. 2003 Jan;24(1):1-6.
Silverstein AM.
Darwinism and immunology: from Metchnikoff to Burnet
Nat Immunol. 2003 Jan;4(1):3-6. Review
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Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Vi sottopongo anche se tardivamente (e’ stato pubblicato l’anno scorso):
The Blank Slate. The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
From the jacket:
Our conceptions of human nature affect every aspect of our lives, from the way we raise our children to the political movements we embrace. Yet just as science is bringing us into a golden age of understanding human nature, many people are hostile to the very idea. They fear that discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, to dissolve personal responsibility, and to strip life of meaning and purpose.
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in the desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.
Pinker tries to inject calm and rationality into these debates by showing that equality, progress, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about rich human nature. He disarms even the most menacing threats with clear thinking, common sense, and pertinent facts from science and history. Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. It denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of government, violence, parenting, and the arts.
E inoltre:
Darwinian Politics. The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom.
By Paul H. Rubin
New Brunswick, New Jersey, & London. Rutgers University Press. 2002. 240 pp.
Commenti e approfondimenti li trovate preso questi due siti:
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/prubin.html
http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/03/prubin.pdf
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The Blank Slate. The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
From the jacket:
Our conceptions of human nature affect every aspect of our lives, from the way we raise our children to the political movements we embrace. Yet just as science is bringing us into a golden age of understanding human nature, many people are hostile to the very idea. They fear that discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, to dissolve personal responsibility, and to strip life of meaning and purpose.
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in the desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.
Pinker tries to inject calm and rationality into these debates by showing that equality, progress, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about rich human nature. He disarms even the most menacing threats with clear thinking, common sense, and pertinent facts from science and history. Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. It denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of government, violence, parenting, and the arts.
E inoltre:
Darwinian Politics. The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom.
By Paul H. Rubin
New Brunswick, New Jersey, & London. Rutgers University Press. 2002. 240 pp.
Commenti e approfondimenti li trovate preso questi due siti:
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/prubin.html
http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/03/prubin.pdf
pc
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Marcello Barbieri ha appena pubblicato per la Cambridge Univ. Press il volume:
The organic codes. An introduction to Semantic Biology. Gennaio 2003.
Le altre pubblicazioni dell’autore sono riportate di seguito:
The organic codes. The birth of semantic biology. Pequod, 2001
La teoria semantica dell'evoluzione. Boringhieri, 1985
The Semantic Theory of Evolution. Harwood Academic Publishers,1985
Un nuovo modello per l' esplosione della vita nel Cambriano. Systema Naturae, Annali di Biologia Teorica, vol. 4, pag. 255-277, 2002
I Codici Organici. Il meccanismo chiave della macroevoluzione, in I nuovi paradigmi della biologia, pag. 9-40, PeQuod, 1999. Anche in Systema Naturae, Annali di biologia Teorica, vol. 1, 1998
The Ribotype Theory on the Origin of Life. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 91, pag. 545-601, 1981
La Teoria Ribotipica sull'Origine della Vita. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 75, n. 4, pag. 515-561, 1982
Biological forms as natural conventions. Rivista di Biologia. Biol. Forum, vol. 90, pag. 485-488, 1997
The organic codes. The basic mechanism of macroevolution. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 91, n. 3, pag. 481-514, 1998
The reconstruction principle. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 82, n. 1, pag. 103-30, 1989
Co-information. A new concept in theoretical biology. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 80, n. 1, pag. 101-26, 1987
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The organic codes. An introduction to Semantic Biology. Gennaio 2003.
Le altre pubblicazioni dell’autore sono riportate di seguito:
The organic codes. The birth of semantic biology. Pequod, 2001
La teoria semantica dell'evoluzione. Boringhieri, 1985
The Semantic Theory of Evolution. Harwood Academic Publishers,1985
Un nuovo modello per l' esplosione della vita nel Cambriano. Systema Naturae, Annali di Biologia Teorica, vol. 4, pag. 255-277, 2002
I Codici Organici. Il meccanismo chiave della macroevoluzione, in I nuovi paradigmi della biologia, pag. 9-40, PeQuod, 1999. Anche in Systema Naturae, Annali di biologia Teorica, vol. 1, 1998
The Ribotype Theory on the Origin of Life. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 91, pag. 545-601, 1981
La Teoria Ribotipica sull'Origine della Vita. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 75, n. 4, pag. 515-561, 1982
Biological forms as natural conventions. Rivista di Biologia. Biol. Forum, vol. 90, pag. 485-488, 1997
The organic codes. The basic mechanism of macroevolution. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 91, n. 3, pag. 481-514, 1998
The reconstruction principle. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 82, n. 1, pag. 103-30, 1989
Co-information. A new concept in theoretical biology. Rivista di Biologia, vol. 80, n. 1, pag. 101-26, 1987
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Sunday, February 16, 2003
Recenti segnalazioni:
Consiglio Carlo, Siani Vincenzino. Evoluzione e alimentazione. Il cammino dell'uomo. Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. Finalmente una ricerca originale sul ruolo dell’evoluzione nel regime e comportamento alimentare nell’uomo.
Pani Luca, Canali Stefano. Evoluzione, malattia e psicosomatica. Mondadori Bruno, 2003. Prosegue il dibattito su evoluzione e malattia, sia questa di origine psicosomatica che medica.
…e un ripescaggio:
Barlow George W. Maestri dell'evoluzione. I ciclidi. E' in acqua il più grande esperimento di evoluzione della natura. Sesto Continente Editore, 2002. Introduzione di G. Celli.
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Consiglio Carlo, Siani Vincenzino. Evoluzione e alimentazione. Il cammino dell'uomo. Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. Finalmente una ricerca originale sul ruolo dell’evoluzione nel regime e comportamento alimentare nell’uomo.
Pani Luca, Canali Stefano. Evoluzione, malattia e psicosomatica. Mondadori Bruno, 2003. Prosegue il dibattito su evoluzione e malattia, sia questa di origine psicosomatica che medica.
…e un ripescaggio:
Barlow George W. Maestri dell'evoluzione. I ciclidi. E' in acqua il più grande esperimento di evoluzione della natura. Sesto Continente Editore, 2002. Introduzione di G. Celli.
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