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Romanticizing evolutionary biology : Gregory Rupik. Remapping biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder. Romanticizing evolution. 2024. Routledge, London. 浪漫化进化生物学：Gregory Rupik。与歌德、谢林和赫尔德一起重新绘制生物学。将进化。2024. 劳特利奇,伦敦。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00667-5

Kevin N Lala

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The Bay of Porto Paone: the first "tiny underwater nature reserve" in the Gulf of Naples (1960-1966). 波尔图帕内湾：那不勒斯湾的第一个“小型水下自然保护区”（1960-1966）。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00665-7

Alessandra Passariello

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From aesthetics to anthropology: ideal beauty in Camper's (1722-1789) theory of race. 从美学到人类学：坎普尔（1722-1789）种族理论中的理想美。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00661-x

Jorge L García, Xiaoyu Wang

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Tamar Novick, Milk and honey: technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2023. 塔玛·诺维克，《牛奶和蜂蜜：创造圣地的丰富技术》，剑桥，马萨诸塞州：麻省理工学院出版社，2023年。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00662-w

Hayley Birss

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Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023. 皮埃尔-奥利维尔·姆萨梅特（主编），哲学、历史和生物学：纪念让·加永的散文，Cham：施普林格出版社，2023年。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00663-9

Emiliano Sfara

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The Chicago school of ecology's evolutionary superorganism and the clements-wright connection. 芝加哥生态学学派的进化超级有机体和克莱门茨-赖特的联系。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00652-4

Philippe Huneman

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Race realism goes both ways. 种族现实主义是双向的。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00658-y

Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall

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On the prospects of basal cognition research becoming fully evolutionary: promising avenues and cautionary notes. 基础认知研究完全进化的前景：有希望的途径和警告。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00660-y

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Matthew Sims

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Empirical vitalism: observing an organism's formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object. 经验生机论：观察一个有机体在主客体之间积极和共同构成的关系中的形成力。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00649-z

Christoph J Hueck

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Were Huxley's social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley's biological worldview. 赫胥黎的社会观点是由他的生物学工作构成的吗，反之亦然？朱利安·赫胥黎生物学世界观中的进步、完美与社会价值。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00645-3

Alison K McConwell

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