When the sociobiology debate erupted in 1975, there were almost too many contributions to the heated exchanges between sociobiologists and their critics to count. In the fall of 1976, a Canadian educa...

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Around 1880, the question of how to explain the phenomena of plant movements was heatedly debated in plant physiology. One of the contributions was Charles Darwin’s provocative suggestion that all mov...

Model makers often find themselves in the following situation: in order for the model to be able to represent the dynamics of the target system, they have to make certain assumptions that pertain to t...

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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology -

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is a journal devoted to the history and philosophy of science and humanities.

Journal of the History of Biology -

Die vorliegende Abhandlung entspringt dem Aufgabenkreis einer jungen Arbeitsgemeinschaft zwischen Geisteswissenschaft und vergleichender Psychologie, die das wichtigste Programm des neugegründeten Ph...