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376The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth centuryHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (1): 1-18. 2021.This essay considers how scholarly approaches to the development of molecular biology have too often narrowed the historical aperture to genes, overlooking the ways in which other objects and processes contributed to the molecularization of life. From structural and dynamic studies of biomolecules to cellular membranes and organelles to metabolism and nutrition, new work by historians, philosophers, and STS scholars of the life sciences has revitalized older issues, such as the relationship of l…Read more
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36Evolutionary Constraints on Human Object PerceptionCognitive Science 2126-2148. 2017.Language and culture endow humans with access to conceptual information that far exceeds any which could be accessed by a non-human animal. Yet, it is possible that, even without language or specific experiences, non-human animals represent and infer some aspects of similarity relations between objects in the same way as humans. Here, we show that monkeys’ discrimination sensitivity when identifying images of animals is predicted by established measures of semantic similarity derived from human …Read more
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York UniversityUndergraduate
Toronto, Ontario, Canada