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Different Views on Suffering

They really also want to get on with their lives. Dying takes a toll on families. It is easier if the individual dies sooner than ...

1993 Science Article by Roger Lock Summation

adjacent to the school in order to ascertain where a species may be found. Say, for example, the assignment was to find ants. The ...

Psychology and Biology

and allowed them to quantify emotional responses. In the early stages of human development, there is a comparatively narrow range ...

Overview of Circadian Rhythms

In six pages this paper discusses the biology of circadian rhythms through definition and the various myths that surround it. Fiv...

Biology from Philosophical Perspectives

In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and...

Human Behavior from a Sociobiological Perspective

In six pages this paper argues that human patterns of behavior cannot be completely explained through macro or micro biology. T...

The Evolution of Language

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...

Humanistic and Biological Personality Theory Perspectives

would become Eysencks personality theory was undoubtedly the result of many factors in his life, including the fact that he was a ...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

Potential Career Directions

question as to whether a college degree is required for success in any field is dependent on artificially construed occupational p...

Biopsychological Views on Sexual Behavior

is a visual world that requires the stimulation of seeing a naked body in order to achieve climax. Whether that medium is through...

West Nile Virus Overview

cant be ruled out either"(Flatow, 2002). The pathogen, Peterson explains, can cause swelling in the brain which can lead to conv...

Book Review of Franklin Harold's The Way of the Cell:

organism in nature exists. While it is simple to say that the biological "riddle" of life, the understanding of cellular biology,...

Modern Agriculture and the Benefits of Marine Biology

source. However, the commercial fish food necessary for the tilapia is: "... expensive, spoils rapidly, and is difficult to transp...

Marine Sylvia Earle's Contributions

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

Stanley Cavell and the Truth of Skepticism by Fergus Kerr

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

Cellular Function and Biological Techniques

on illumination to create contrast. Contrast formation is defined by the ratio between light and dark, and light microscopy often...

Science That Changed the World

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

Religious Diversity, Biology, and Memes

(p. 434). How evolutionary theory (via Darwin and Dawkins) aids in understanding human migration, cultural development and social...

English as a Second Language Student and Science Instruction

How might a teacher convey the idea to a class of elementary school children? He or she would come to the definition by provid...

Answering Questions on Cultural Anthropology

within that society, it is not something that integrates itself into the culture of the people. Many people must engage in the sa...

Ecology and Restoration Biology

wind, flowing water, renewable wood but to then do whatever is possible but to find a way to replace the resources that are most c...

Society, Biology, and Gender Identity

environment that causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since ...

History of Marine Biology from Ostracoderm Fossils to Pacific Halibut

associated with fresh, not estuarine or salt, water (Forey and Janvier, 1994). Recent research has determined that, to the contra...

Cell Biology Techniques

genes in this second strain (Weitzman, 2001). Researchers, then, have recognized the importance of assessing the non-pathogenic K...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Two Topics Under Examination, Racism and Homosexuality

The writer develops two differing topics in this paper. The first is a response to a 1994 article entitled The Biological Evidence...

Ages Two to Six and Gender Differences

In six pages this paper discusses whether or not gender differences at this age are the result of cultural socialization, biology,...

Universality of Facial Communication

In ten pages this paper discusses whether or not facial expressions are universal in a consideration of culture and biology. Eigh...

Life Definitions

way to talk about complexity when it is so poorly defined is to describe "the boundary between order and chaos - where complexity ...