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Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Despite evolutionary theory having moved well beyond what Charles Darwin initially put down as a theory in "The Origin of Species" and his subsequent works, many of his principles still hold ...

Individuality is an important concept in biology, yet there are many non-equivalent criteria of individuality expressed in different kinds of biological individuals. This article evaluates these ...