scholarly journals Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Böker
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Anatomical Reconstruction ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Active Reaction ◽  
Species Transformation ◽  
Anatomical Characters

AbstractComparative biological morphology, incorporating the study of active reaction, is contrasted with genetics as the study of passive mutation. Geneticists investigate anatomical characters, never anatomical constructions, which are capable of reorganization when the biological-morphological equilibrium of the organism has been disturbed. The anatomy of Opisthocomus cristatus and Stringops habroptilus demonstrate that three successive disturbances in the bio-morphological equilibrium are reacted to purposively by anatomical reconstruction. These reactions are no accidental mutations, but are anatomical reactions, related to, and affecting, the organism as a whole. In sharp contrast to such anatomical reaction, resulting, during phylogeny, in reorganization, are the “technics” [i.e., mechanistic bases] of individual development. The hereditary process is, like every physiological or embryological process, a fixed mechanism, which remains constant until an active reaction leads to reconstruction and at the same time an appropriate change of the mechanisms. The remolding of species is therefore no passive, “technical” process, but a creative act of the organisms themselves. [Original English abstract; not translated.]

scholarly journals Revisiting Hans Böker’s "Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms" (1935)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda ◽  
Abigail Nieves Delgado ◽  
Jan Baedke
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Environmental Perturbations ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Active Reaction ◽  
Species Transformation

AbstractAgainst the common historiographic narratives of evolutionary biology, the first decades of the 20th century were theoretically far richer than usually assumed. This especially refers to the hitherto neglected role that early theoretical biologists played in introducing visionary research perspectives and concepts before the institutionalization of the Modern Synthesis. Here, we present one of these scholars, the German theoretical biologist and ecomorphologist Hans Böker (1886–1939), by reviewing his 1935 paper “Artumwandlung durch Umkonstruktion, Umkonstruktion durch aktives Reagieren der Organismen” ("Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms"), published in the inaugural volume of the journal Acta Biotheoretica. While largely forgotten today, this work represents a melting pot of ideas that adumbrate some of today’s most lively debated empirical and conceptual topics in evolutionary biology: the active role of organisms as actors of their own evolution, environmental induction and phenotypic plasticity, genetic assimilation, as well as developmental bias. We discuss Böker’s views on how species change through (what he calls) "Umkonstruktion," and how such reconstruction is exerted through active reactions of organisms to environmental perturbations. In addition, we outline the aims and wider context of his "biological comparative anatomy," including Boker’s reprehensible political affiliation with the Nazi Party. Finally, we highlight some of the historical reasons for why Böker’s views did not have a larger impact in evolutionary biology, but we also recount some of the direct and indirect legacies of his approach in research areas such as ecomorphology and (Eco)EvoDevo. Böker’s paper is available as supplementary material in the online version of this article, as part of the journal's "Classics in Biological Theory" collection; the first translation of the paper into English, by Alexander Böhm and Jan Baedke, is also being published in this volume.

A New Approach to the Demonstration of Oxidase-Localization Using Tannic Acid Or Catechin

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 698-699
Author(s):  
V. Mizuhira ◽  
Y. Futaesaku
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Tannic Acid ◽  
Elastic Fiber ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Tissue Block ◽  
Active Reaction ◽  
The Cross

Previously we reported that tannic acid is a very effective fixative for proteins including polypeptides. Especially, in the cross section of microtubules, thirteen submits in A-tubule and eleven in B-tubule could be observed very clearly. An elastic fiber could be demonstrated very clearly, as an electron opaque, homogeneous fiber. However, tannic acid did not penetrate into the deep portion of the tissue-block. So we tried Catechin. This shows almost the same chemical natures as that of proteins, as tannic acid. Moreover, we thought that catechin should have two active-reaction sites, one is phenol,and the other is catechole. Catechole site should react with osmium, to make Os- black. Phenol-site should react with peroxidase existing perhydroxide.

AKTUALISASI PEDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM PENGEMBANGAN REVOLUSI MENTAL BERBASIS ADIWIYATA DAN MULTIKULTURAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhardi Suhardi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Using Data

Mental revolution of education requires efforts to print educated human beings by having the motivation to meet the standards of achievement excellence, such as ethos of progress, ethics, achievement motivation, discipline, optimistic, productive, innovative and active views. This can be implemented with character education. Character education is one of the soft skill tools that can be integrated in learning in each subject. Learning activities using an active learning approach have a strategic role in instilling national character values so that students are able to behave and act on values that have become their personality. The purpose of this study was to find and analyze about: 1) Implementation of Character Education to Build Adiwiyata-Based Mental Revolution and Multiculturalism; 2) Implementation of Character Education to Build Mental Revolution in Organizational Culture. This study uses a qualitative approach with phenomenological naturatistics (phenomenology approach), with a descriptive type of case study research design. Data were analyzed using data analysis techniques: data reduction, data analysis and conclusions. The results of the study are: The application of character education to develop a mental revolution can be started from the character of building the environment. Environmental character is very important for individual development. The implementation of character education in building a mental revolution can emphasize the internalization of multicultural values and Adiwiyata which in the end will form a loving environmental awareness and foster a spirit of tolerance.

Neuroosteopathy: Phylosophy of the Approach

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Amigues
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Osteopathic Treatment ◽  
Motor Acts

The article presents a holistic view on neuroosteopathy. It demonstrates the connection between the congenital and the acquired alterations with due regard to the epigenetic aspects of morphogenesis in different periods of the organism’s individual development. On the basis of the analysis of scientific literature and of the clinical osteopathic experience the connection between the child’s motor development and the formation of his nervous system is shown. The article presents a plan of osteopathic treatment of the lesions diagnosed which is based on the analysis of the connection between the motor acts, gestures, positions and congenital reflexes.

Total anatomical reconstruction during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with previous prostate surgery

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Campobasso ◽  
Cristian Fiori ◽  
Daniele Amparore ◽  
Enrico Checcucci ◽  
Diletta Garrou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radical Prostatectomy ◽  
Anatomical Reconstruction ◽  
Robot Assisted

The Gender Troubles of Feofan Prokopovich

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 198-228
Author(s):  
Gary Marker
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Dual Codes ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Gender Trouble

Abstract This essay constitutes a close reading of the works of Feofan Prokopovich that touch upon gender and womanhood. Interpretively it is informed by Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, specifically by her model of gender-as-performance. Prokopovich’s writings conveyed a negative characterization of holy women and Russian women of power, a combination of glaring silences and Scholastic dual codes that in toto denied the association of womanhood with glory or wisdom. In this he stood apart from other East Slavic Orthodox homilists of his day, even though they too invariably associated virtue with masculinity (muzhestvo). For Prokopovich, wisdom, strength, constancy, etc., were innately masculine. Women, by contrast, were weak, inconstant, non-rational, and guided by emotion. His sermons nominally in praise of Catherine I and Anna Ioannovna were suffused with narrative gestures that, to those attuned to the nuances of Scholastic rhetoric, ran entirely counter to their nominal message. Several panegyrics to Anna, for example, made no mention of her at all, a practice in sharp contrast to his sermons to male rulers, which typically placed the honoree firmly in the foreground. Even more startling is his singularly minimalist approach to Mary, for whom he composed almost no sermons and whose presence he barely mentioned in tracts where one would have expected otherwise. This essay concludes that this attitude reflected both his personal preferences and influence that Protestant Pietism had on his thinking.

External morphology and internal anatomical characters of juveniles of the freshwater drum Aplodinotus grunniens

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Haibo WEN ◽  
Xueyan MA ◽  
Pao XU ◽  
Bingqing ZHENG ◽  
Xinhua YUAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
External Morphology ◽  
Aplodinotus Grunniens ◽  
Anatomical Characters ◽  
Freshwater Drum
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