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Entries from November 2008

Social Darwinism in Nazi Germany

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Impact of Social Darwinism in Nazi Germany – Get more College Essays

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Zarathustra, the Old Testament, and universal histories

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

From the Old Testament to a secular ‘universal history’
with a selection from WHEE

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Armstrong and the Axial Age

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Armstrong and her tactics of deceit and VIP propaganda.
Her book The Great Transformation did immense harm to the archaeological site of the so-called Axial Age. Appearing in the wake of the first edition of World History And The Eonic Effect this book, without any acknowledgment stripped the Axial Age of its macrohistorical/evolutionary significance, and proceed [...]

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The eonic effect, feedback/control theory, and directionality

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

An important article on a new discovery about evolution: Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
Discussed here at Darwiniana:
The eonic effect, control systems, evolutionary directionality
This remarkable article, Evolutionary control systems, is an opportunity to consider, or reconsider the issues of evolution, or micro/macro evolution in the light of control theory. This time [...]

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Evolution and control theory, breakthru?!

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
by Kitta MacPherson · Posted November 10, 2008; 10:00 a.m.
A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.

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Early democracy

November 9th, 2008 · No Comments

from Discover
Ancient Greece was not the birthplace of democracy. Two thousand years earlier in the kingdom of Ebla, located in what is now Syria, kings were elected for seven-year terms.

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November 8th, 2008 · No Comments

WATCHERS OF THE SKIES
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
By Richard Holmes (HarperPress 554pp £25)
Whatever C P Snow may have decreed about an unbridgeable divide between the Two Cultures, Romantic writers were fully aware of recent scientific discoveries. As a twenty-year-old medical student, John Keats spent a [...]

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Darwiniana: recent posts, updated

November 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Updated, Recent Posts at Darwiniana

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