10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYGENY»
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polygeny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
polygeny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future
AMERICAN. POLYGENY. AND. CRANIOMETRY. BEFORE. DARWIN. Blacks and
Indians as Separate, Inferior Species Stephen Jay Gould Order is Heaven's first
law; and, this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.
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EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science: Launch of the ...
Therefore, polygeny is an especially common feature of theories positing events
or other complex “thick” particulars (Armstrong 1978, 114) as causal relata. The
motorboat example, however, may be of a different polygenic kind. There the ...
Mauricio Suárez, Mauro Dorato, Miklós Rédei, 2010
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The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern ...
Polygeny In more conventional scientific cireles many scientists were involved in
the classification and cataloguing of all manner of natural systems. One important
group of classification scientists was those who believed in polygeny, the idea ...
M. Susan Barger, William B. White, 2000
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Evolutionary Algorithms: The Role of Mutation and Recombination
The biological concepts of pleiotropy and polygeny are related to epistasis.
Pleiotropy refers to how many traits are influenced by a gene and polygeny refers
to how many genes influence a trait. Roughly speaking, systems with low
epistasis ...
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Janeway's Immunobiology, Eighth Edition
The extensive polymorphism at each locus thus has the potential to double the
number of different MHC molecules expressed in an individual and thereby
increase the diversity already available through polygeny (Fig. 6.17). For the
MHC ...
6
Getting Causes from Powers
10.5 Complexity, polygeny and pleiotropy In classical Mendelian genetics, there
is a one-to-one correspondence between dominant 'factors', which later became
known as genes, and traits or phenotypes. Each particular gene is 'for' one ...
Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, 2011
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Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
polygeny. The teleological debate over human unity or racial diversity that
convulsed the science of man after 1750 took its most extreme shape in the
hostile opposition of the doctrines known from the mid-nineteenth century as '
monogeny' ...
Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard, 2008
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
Into this gap of adequate political discourse for describing the nature of the nation
, a new class of professional American scientists responded with the theory of "
polygeny." Stephen Jay Gould has identified the theory of racial polygeny as ...
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The Mismeasure of Man(1981): Revised edition
Agassiz also became the leading spokesman for polygeny in America. He did not
bring this theory with him from Europe. He converted to the doctrine of human
races as separate species after his first experiences with American blacks.
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Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory
In biology, the exact number of functions that are affected by one particular
elements gene is referred to as an element's pleiotropy.28 The number of
elements affecting one particular function is referred to as a function's polygeny.
The structure ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYGENY»
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polygeny is used in the context of the following news items.
Gay marriage, racism, and what everyone misses about the …
One of the main scientific theories used to advance racism was polygeny, or the idea that the different races evolved from different origins; ... «The Week Magazine, Feb 15»
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould
Morton opted for polygeny, or multiple origins, a conclusion hardly guaranteed to endear him to Gould. Along the way, Morton presented measurements that ... «Natural History Magazine, Mar 13»
Personalized Medicine for HLA-associated Drug-hypersensitivity …
The duplication of the HLA genes, or polygeny, similarly increases the array of peptides on the cell surface. Therefore, it seems plausible that we would observe ... «Medscape, Oct 10»
