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Mound builders, mound blunders: mythmaking in nineteenth century American archaeology. 土墩建造者，土墩错误者：19世纪美国考古学中的神话创造。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00711-4

T J Perkins

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Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective. 重新定义月经的意义：从生物关系角度的进化见解。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00710-5

Arantza Etxeberria, Ainhoa Rodriguez-Muguruza

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Regulation in ecological systems: an overview. 生态系统中的调控：综述。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00707-0

Clarissa Machado Pinto Leite, Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho, Jeferson Gabriel da Encarnação Coutinho, Charbel N El-Hani

{"title":"Regulation in ecological systems: an overview.","authors":"Clarissa Machado Pinto Leite, Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho, Jeferson Gabriel da Encarnação Coutinho, Charbel N El-Hani","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00707-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00707-0","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of regulation is used in biology to explain properties such as stability, robustness, and long-term persistence of biological systems. Regulation claims often focus, however, on the capabilities of these systems, rather than the mechanisms underlying them. In an attempt to produce a full-fledged theoretical account of regulation, a stricter concept has been proposed by Bich and colleagues based on the theory of biological autonomy. According to these authors, regulation is exerted by specialized subsystems that can change the constitutive regime of a system (enabling it to deal with a wider range of perturbations) but whose dynamics are not specified by the latter. In this paper, we present a brief survey on how regulation has been treated in biology and, more specifically, in ecology. We show how the ecological literature attributes regulatory powers either to organismic phenomena or to the propagation of perturbations through the network of relations in ecological systems. We were not able to find any study proposing a specialized subsystem dedicated to regulation in an ecological system. This raises doubts about the feasibility of a regulatory subsystem such as conceived by Bich and colleagues. Nonetheless, we argue that ecological systems may encompass more than just dynamic stability and feedback mechanisms, such that it can be worthy applying their concept to investigate regulation in these systems.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 4","pages":"58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12686030/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145703183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Early transitions in the evolution of cognition. 认知进化的早期转变。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00709-y

Arsham Nejad Kourki

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Attuning to the deep on the opportunities of thinking with art for an ethics and science of the deep sea. 以艺术为思维的契机，为一种伦理与科学的深海调谐。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00705-2

Kristien Hens, Christina Stadlbauer, Bart Vandeput

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Measurement under uncertainty: theory-measurement relations in early electrophysiological research. 不确定度下的测量：早期电生理研究中的理论-测量关系。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00708-z

Maria Şerban

{"title":"Measurement under uncertainty: theory-measurement relations in early electrophysiological research.","authors":"Maria Şerban","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00708-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00708-z","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work in philosophy of measurement has converged on a \"theory-dependence consensus\", according to which measurement reliability requires sophisticated theoretical scaffolding. This consensus has been largely shaped by case studies from physics and high-precision metrology. This paper questions whether this consensus adequately captures measurement practices in biology, where researchers often operate under significant uncertainty about their target phenomena. Through detailed historical analysis of early electrophysiological research-from Carlo Matteucci through Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Ludimar Hermann-I examine how quantitative measurement practices emerged under theoretical uncertainty. The cases reveal recurring patterns including productive theoretical inadequacy and instrumental constraint-driven discovery, supporting an analytical framework that distinguishes multiple levels of theoretical involvement in measurement. Building on these cases, I argue that biological measurement practices function productively as strategies for causal discovery, and theoretically inadequate frameworks prove epistemically valuable by structuring empirical inquiry to reveal previously unrecognised causal factors.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 4","pages":"55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12669311/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145649964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Physical explanations in evolutionary biology. 进化生物学中的物理解释。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-28 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00704-3

Margarida Hermida, James Ladyman

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The entanglement of individuation and explanation in the discovery of xenogastrulation. 个体化的纠缠与异种肠胚形成的解释。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00706-1

Andrew Bollhagen, Zachary J Mayne, Christa S Merzdorf

{"title":"The entanglement of individuation and explanation in the discovery of xenogastrulation.","authors":"Andrew Bollhagen, Zachary J Mayne, Christa S Merzdorf","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00706-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00706-1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes an episode of scientific work that was prompted by observations of a novel defect in early embryonic development, which was unexpectedly induced in an experimental context and has tentatively been dubbed \"xenogastrulation.\" The researchers worked to individuate this as a novel phenomenon-both by distinguishing it from what it is not (e.g., exogastrulation) and by forming a positive conception of what it is-in order to facilitate further inquiry. Our analysis provides new insights into the role of explanatory reasoning in nascent experimental research programs. We argue that the researchers' efforts to individuate the novel phenomenon were entangled with their efforts to explain it. By this, we mean that tentative answers to the individuative question, \"what is it?\" also served as tentative answers to the explanatory question, \"by what means does it occur?\" This case study therefore demonstrates that explanation need not wait until an explanandum has been clearly individuated but instead can be deeply entangled with the process of individuating the explanandum in the first place.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 4","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12660397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145643451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The problem of isolating and measuring empathy. 隔离和衡量同理心的问题。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00702-5

Riana Betzler

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Social construction of algorithmic success: between good science and political feasibility in marine conservation planning. 算法成功的社会建构：在海洋保护规划良好的科学与政治可行性之间。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-025-00696-0

Matt P Lukacz

{"title":"Social construction of algorithmic success: between good science and political feasibility in marine conservation planning.","authors":"Matt P Lukacz","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00696-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40656-025-00696-0","url":null,"abstract":"In the decade between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, critical voices within the conservation biology community argued that site selection for protected areas was most often done in a way that was unscientific. Conservation practitioners, many of whom became acutely aware of the constraints of the policy world through direct participation, believed that they needed to think pragmatically about establishing a scientific basis for the design of protected areas. Some of the conservation practitioners came to see rationalistic tools such as optimization algorithms embedded within decision-support systems as means of reconciling social, economic, and environmental interests. This paper recapitulates the history of the first significant policy initiative that purported to use algorithmic decision support software, MARXAN, by interweaving environmental history, history of computing, and history of science. Specifically, it is a historical reconstruction of the use of MARXAN in its first large-scale conservation policy project: a rezoning of Australia's Great Barrier Reef that took place between 1998 and 2004. This paper asks: how exactly was MARXAN used in the conservation policy planning initiative? And, what role did MARXAN play in narratives about the success of the policy initiative? I argue that in Australian case, it was the commitment to political value of democratic deliberation and not the allure of algorithmic objectivity that stood behind what was by many considered an agenda-setting marine conservation policy. These findings add support to the growing consensus in critical algorithmic studies against algorithmic determinism by situating the agency of the users of MARXAN within a larger context of a \"drama\" as reported (Hilgartner in Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2000) of science advice.","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 4","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145254031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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