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  2. World Hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence, by Stephen C. Pepper (1942), presents four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems) in terms of their root metaphors: formism (similarity), mechanism (machine), contextualism (historical act), and organicism (living system).

  3. Alanine world hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Alanine is the simplest α-amino acid after glycine. The methyl side-chain of alanine is non-reactive and is therefore hardly ever directly involved in protein function. [12] Alanine is a nonessential amino acid, meaning it can be manufactured by the human body, and does not need to be obtained through the diet. Alanine is found in a wide ...

  4. Hypothetical types of biochemistry - Wikipedia

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    The genetic code may have evolved during the transition from the RNA world to a protein world. [86] The Alanine World Hypothesis postulates that the evolution of the genetic code (the so-called GC phase [87]) started with only four basic amino acids: alanine, glycine, proline and ornithine (now arginine). [88]

  5. GADV-protein world hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    GADV-protein world is a hypothetical stage of abiogenesis. GADV stands for the one letter codes of four amino acids , namely, glycine (G), alanine (A), aspartic acid (D) and valine (V), the main components of GADV proteins .

  6. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.

  7. Stephen Pepper - Wikipedia

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    Stephen C. Pepper (April 29, 1891 – May 1, 1972) was an American pragmatism philosopher, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.He may be best known for World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics.

  8. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [1]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.

  9. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson.It helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century and part of the wider debate about evolutionary psychology and the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology.