When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch?

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-259
Author(s):  
Georgy S. Levit ◽  
Uwe Hossfeld
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biologist

Biophilia's Queer Remnants

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 18-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney O'Dell-Chaib
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Animal ◽  
Religion And Ecology ◽  
Evolutionary Biologist ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
Biophilia Hypothesis ◽  
Ethical Investments ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis, that humans have a genetically influenced emotional affiliation with life and life-like processes, for some time has invigorated a prominent strain of scholarship within religion and ecology that taps into the affective dimensions of our evolutionary histories. Our biophilic tendencies coupled with the awe, wonder, and reverence evoked by these religiously resonant cosmologies, they argue, provide occasions for cultivating ethical investments rooted in genetic kinship. However, much of this work that adopts biophilia assumes a “healthy” animal-other and rarely affiliates with the ill, disabled, and mutated creatures impacted by ecological degradation. In conversation with Donovan Schaefer’s provocative new book Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power and his engagement with biophilia, this paper considers possibilities for addressing aversion to animals impacted by ecological collapse through Schaefer’s understanding of affects as not merely adaptive, but embedded within complex economies of embodiment and power.

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021): Evolutionary Biology’s Great Disrupter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biologist

An appreciation of the career of the evolutionary biologist and activist Richard Lewontin (1929-2021)

Cooperation, Coordination, and Collective Action

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Cronk ◽  
Beth L. Leech
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Coordination Problems ◽  
Evolutionary Biologist ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Two Bodies

This book investigates a wide range of ideas, theories, and existing empirical research relevant to the study of the complex and diverse phenomenon of human cooperation. Issues relating to cooperation are examined from the perspective of evolutionary theory, political science, and related social sciences. The book draws upon two bodies of work: Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action (1965) and George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966). Olson, an economist, and Williams, an evolutionary biologist, both argued that a focus on groups would not provide a complete understanding of collective action and other social behaviors. This introductory chapter discusses some important definitions relating to cooperation, with particular emphasis on collective action and collective action dilemmas, along with coordination and coordination problems. It also provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

Description of a new Central African earthworm, Petroscolex centenarius gen. et sp. nov. (Crassiclitellata, Eudrilidae), celebrating the 100th birthday of Pietro Omodeo

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4674 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-508
Author(s):  
CSABA CSUZDI ◽  
EMILIA ROTA ◽  
TÍMEA SZEDERJESI ◽  
EMMA SHERLOCK ◽  
GEORGE G. BROWN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
100Th Birthday ◽  
Evolutionary Biologist ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

Prof. Pietro Omodeo (University of Siena, Italy), the world-renowned earthworm taxonomist and evolutionary biologist, was born in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy on the 27th September, 1919. He celebrates his 100th birthday in 2019 and members of the international community of earthworm taxonomists salute him with Petroscolex centenarius gen. et sp. nov., a new megadrile taxon discovered in 1991 by him but which has not been formally described until now. The many important contributions of Omodeo to oligochaetological research are briefly mentioned. 

scholarly journals On the 85th anniversary of Alexandr Rasnitsyn

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
ELENA D. LUKASHEVICH ◽  
ALEXEY S. BASHKUEV ◽  
BIDDY JARZEMBOWSKI ◽  
EDMUND A. JARZEMBOWSKI ◽  
ROMAN A. RAKITOV ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biologist ◽  
Happy Birthday

This issue of Palaeoentomology is dedicated to the foremost Russian entomologist, palaeontologist, and evolutionary biologist, Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn, who will be 85 on September 24 this year. The authors and those numerous colleagues, who could not, for various reasons, participate, wish a happy birthday to the undisputed worldwide leader of palaeoentomology!

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