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  2. Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia

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    Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. [4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred ...

  3. John von Neumann - Wikipedia

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    Von Neumann was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), [13][14][15] on December 28, 1903, to a wealthy, non-observant Jewish family. His birth name was Neumann János Lajos. In Hungarian, the family name comes first, and his given names are equivalent to John Louis in English.

  4. Derek Muller - Wikipedia

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    YouTube. "Sciencium". YouTube. Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) [3] is a South African–Australian science communicator and media personality, best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 16 million subscribers and 2.75 billion views as of September 2024. [4]

  5. Alan Turing - Wikipedia

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    Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [ 5 ] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation ...

  6. Biocommunication (science) - Wikipedia

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    Biocommunication (science) In the study of the biological sciences, biocommunication is any specific type of communication within (intraspecific) or between (interspecific) species of plants, animals, fungi, [1] protozoa and microorganisms. [2] Communication means sign -mediated interactions following three levels of rules (syntactic, pragmatic ...

  7. Models of communication - Wikipedia

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    Shannon–Weaver model of communication [87] The Shannon–Weaver model is another early and influential model of communication. [10] [33] [88] It is a linear transmission model that was published in 1948 and describes communication as the interaction of five basic components: a source, a transmitter, a channel, a receiver, and a destination.

  8. Last universal common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    Last universal common ancestor. The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. The cell had a lipid bilayer; it possessed the genetic code and ribosomes which translated from DNA or RNA to proteins.

  9. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The physical universe is defined as all of space and time [a] (collectively referred to as spacetime) and their contents. [10] Such contents comprise all of energy in its various forms, including electromagnetic radiation and matter, and therefore planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.