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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
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- 9781461936398
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- 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
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Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice
"This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- and synchronization-based analyses of magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and local field potential (LFP) recordings from humans and nonhuman ani…
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- 9780262319553
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis
Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. …
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- 9780262274753
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.
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Folkbiology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279611
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- 1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) :illustrations
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From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution
Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous dictum, the relationship between embryological development and evolution remains the su…
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- 9780262277976
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- 1 online resource (vii, 569 pages) :illustrations.
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From molecule to metaphor: A Neural theory of language
"A Bradford book."In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to…
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- 9780262272544
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- 1 online resource (xx, 357 pages) :illustrations
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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
"Proceedings of the ninth Fyssen Symposium entitled "From monkey brain to human brain" which was held at the Pavillon Henry IV in St-Germain-en-Laye from 20 to 23 June 2003"--Preface.Leaders in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience discuss patterns of convergence and divergence seen in studies of human and nonhuman primate brains.The extraordinary overlap between human and…
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- 9780262271417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 400 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Numbered lives :life and death in quantum media
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fi…
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- 9780262350174
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
"A Bradford Book.""Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 3…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 0262011972
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1290 pages) : illustrations.
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Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations
A mathematical framework that describes learning of invariant representations in the ventral stream, offering both theoretical development and applications.The ventral visual stream is believed to underlie object recognition in primates. Over the past fifty years, researchers have developed a series of quantitative models that are increasingly faithful to the biological architecture. Recently, …
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- 9780262336710
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages) :illustrations.
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