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Is Gene-centric Molecular Biology a Schrödingerian Affair? A Review of Daniel J. Nicholson’s What is Life? Revisited
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This review proposes a diagnosis of why What is Life?
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A Moving Image of Eternity: Exploring C. S. Lewis's Philosophy of Time
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Translating Riedl: The Circulation and Operationalisation of Evolutionary Ideas.
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On ‘‘systems biology’’: epistemological history of ideas, applications
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Making and Knowing: On the Alleged First Principles of Bioscience and Biotechnology
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Merleau-Ponty Against Eschatology
This paper attempts to show that there are resources in the work of Merleau-Ponty to both show how the extension of the teleological structure of perception to history issues in a profound misunderstanding of history, as being structured teleologically, as having an ultimate goal. In addition, it elaborates an alternat...
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This review does not aspire to provide comprehensive coverage of any particular area. Rather, it is an attempt to reconsider and summarize the results produced by our team in the field of TCR repertoires over the past 15 years, and to correct some of the errors along the way. As intended, it is unavoidably subjective,...
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