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  • 1Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …

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  • 2Plato's Problem — is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is used in linguistics… …

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  • 3Hayy ibn Yaqdhan — Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān ( ar. حي بن يقظان Alive, son of Awake ; la. Philosophus Autodidactus The Self Taught Philosopher ; English: The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan ) was the first Arabic novel and the first… …

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  • 4Free will — This article is about the philosophical questions of free will. For other uses, see Free will (disambiguation). A domino s movement is determined completely by laws of physics. Incompatibilists say that this is a threat to free will, but… …

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  • 5Early Islamic philosophy — or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasting until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE). The period is known as… …

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  • 6human behaviour — Introduction       the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life.       Human beings, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of… …

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  • 7Charles Sanders Peirce —  B …

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  • 8Urmuz — Demetru Dem. Demetrescu Buzău Urmuz, circa 1920, photographer unknown Born March 17, 1883 Curtea de Argeş Died November 23, 1923(1923 11 23 …

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  • 9Twin study — Twin studies are one of a family of designs in behavior genetics which aid the study of individual differences by highlighting the role of environmental and genetic causes on behavior. Twins are invaluable for studying these important questions… …

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  • 10genetic disease, human — Introduction       any of the diseases and disorders that are caused by mutations in one or more genes (gene).       With the increasing ability to control infectious and nutritional diseases in developed countries, there has come the realization …

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