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Chapter 2: "Quantum Mechanics and Emergence" by Seth Lloyd; Section 2: Quantum Mechanisms in Biology. Chapter 3: "Quantum Coherence and the Search for the First Replicator" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden; Chapter 4: "Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis" by Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Francesca Fassioli Olsen, Chiu Fan Lee, and Neil ...
Chapter 443: Biology of Psychiatric Disorders; Chapter 444: Psychiatric Disorders; Chapter 445: Alcohol and Alcohol Use Disorders; Chapter 446: Opioid-Related Disorders; Chapter 447: Cocaine and Other Commonly Used Drugs; Chapter 448: Nicotine Addiction; Part 14: Poisoning, Drug Overdose, and Envenomation Chapter 449: Heavy Metal Poisoning
How the Snake Lost Its Legs: Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo is a 2014 book on evolutionary developmental biology by Lewis I. Held, Jr. The title pays homage to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, [1] [a] but the "tales" are strictly scientific, explaining how a wide range of animal features evolved, in molecular detail.
The spandrels in St Mark's Basilica inspired one of the paper's main metaphors. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", [1] is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 1979. [2]
Conservation biology – Conservation biology is the management of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on natural and social sciences, and the practice of natural ...
The answer to a research question will help address a research problem or question. [5] Specifying a research question, "the central issue to be resolved by a formal dissertation, thesis, or research project," [6] is typically one of the first steps an investigator takes when undertaking research.
Biology as a science: Natural science; Scientific method: observation – research question – hypothesis – testability – prediction – experiment – data – statistics; Scientific theory – scientific law; Research method. List of research methods in biology; Scientific literature List of biology journals: peer review
Each chapter deals with a specific aspect of bad science, often to illustrate a wider point. For example, the chapter on homeopathy becomes the point where he explains the placebo effect, regression to the mean (that is, the natural cycle of the disease), placebo-controlled trials (including the need for randomisation and double blinding), meta-analyses like the Cochrane Collaboration and ...