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Reciprocal Causation and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Andrew Buskell
Sep 04, 2020
Abstract: Kevin Laland and colleagues have put forward a number of arguments motivating an extended evolutionary synthesis. Here I examine Laland et al.'s central concept of reciprocal causation. Reciprocal causation features in...
Reciprocal Causation and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Andrew Buskell
Aug 21, 2019
Kevin Laland and colleagues have put forward a number of arguments motivating an extended evolutionary synthesis. Here I examine Laland and colleagues’ central concept of reciprocal causation. Reciprocal causation features in...
Cognitive novelties, informational form, and structural-causal explanations
Andrew Buskell
Oct 19, 2021
Abstract: Recent work has established a framework for explaining the origin of cognitive novelties—qualitatively distinct cognitive traits—in human beings. This niche construction approach argues that humans engineer epistemic...
Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy
This paper focuses upon the relationship between the business and philanthropic endeavours of world-making entrepreneurs; asking why, how and to what ends these individuals seek to extend their reach in society beyond...
Uniqueness in the life sciences
Abstract: Researchers in the life sciences often make uniqueness attributions; about branching events generating new species, the developmental processes generating novel traits and the distinctive cultural selection pressures...
How we got stuck
Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene social contract provides an exceptionally well‐informed and credible narrative explanation of the origins of inequality and hierarchy. In this essay review, we reflect on the role of rational...
Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy
This paper focuses upon the relationship between the business and philanthropic endeavours of world-making entrepreneurs; asking why, how and to what ends these individuals seek to extend their reach in society beyond...
Lectin pathway effector enzyme mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease-2 can activate native complement C3 in absence of C4 and/or C2.
Sadam Yaseen, Gregory Demopulos, Thomas Dudler, Munehisa Yabuki, Christi L Wood, W Jason Cummings, Larry W Tjoelker, Teizo Fujita, Steven Sacks, Peter Garred, Peter Andrew, Robert B Sim, Peter J Lachmann, Russell Wallis, Nicholas Lynch, Wilhelm J Schwaeble
Aug 05, 2019
All 3 activation pathways of complement-the classic pathway (CP), the alternative pathway, and the lectin pathway (LP)- converge into a common central event: the cleavage and activation of the abundant third complement...
Conrad Russell, Richard Cust, and Andrew Thrush, eds. King James VI/I and His English Parliaments. New York
David L Smith
May 08, 2019
This book is a revised and extended version of the six Trevelyan Lectures that Conrad Russell delivered at Cambridge University in the Lent Term of 1995. Between then and his death in October 2004, Russell developed the lectures...
IPR Policy Brief - Extending working life
Andrew Weyman
Mar 01, 2013
Despite recently announced rises in the minimum age at which the State Pension is claimable, many people continue to leave the labour market before their State Pension age (SPA).
Indeed, although a significant...
Indeed, although a significant...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - Extending working life
Andrew Weyman
Mar 01, 2013
Despite recently announced rises in the minimum age at which the State Pension is claimable, many people continue to leave the labour market before their State Pension age (SPA).
Indeed, although a significant...
Indeed, although a significant...
Published by: University of Bath
Uniqueness in the life sciences
Abstract Researchers in the life sciences often make uniqueness attributions; about branching events generating new species, the developmental processes generating novel traits and the distinctive...
Correction to
Jonathan M Lawton, Mariam Habib, Bingkui Ma, Roger A Brooks, Serena M Best, Andrew L Lewis, Neil Rushton, William Bonfield
Jun 11, 2018
The article "The effect of cationically modified phosphorylcholine polymers on human osteoblasts in vitro and their effect on bone formation in vivo", written by Jonathan M. Lawton, Mariam Habib, Bingkui Ma, Roger A. Brooks...
Cannabinoids, cannabis and cannabis-based medicine for pain management
Emma Fisher, R Andrew Moore, Alex Fogarty, David Finn, Nanna B. Finnerup, Ian Gilron, Simon Haroutounian, Elliot Krane, Andrew S.C. Rice, Michael Rowbotham, M Wallace, Christopher Eccleston
Jul 31, 2021
ABSTRACT: Cannabinoids, cannabis, and cannabis-based medicines (CBMs) are increasingly used to manage pain, with limited understanding of their efficacy and safety. We summarised efficacy and adverse events (AEs) of these...
Chlamydia Uses K+ Electrical Signalling to Orchestrate Host Sensing, Inter-Bacterial Communication and Differentiation.
Prokaryotic communities coordinate quorum behaviour in response to external stimuli to control fundamental processes including inter-bacterial communication. The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia adopts two...
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