Les rapports géologiques qui existent entre la faune actuelle et la faune éteinte de
l'Amérique méridionale, ainsi que certains faits relatifs à la distribution des êtres organisés …

Digital technology opens up extraordinary fields for applications that will deeply change the
nature of jobs and trade, the very concept of work and the expectations of user–producers …

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the
gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual …

This special issue focuses on the foundations of safety science. Topics discussed are:
scientific diversity and fragmentation within safety science; beyond diversity, some …

After reviewing the literature on current knowledge about consciousness in humans, we
present a state-of-the art discussion on consciousness and related key concepts in animals …

In recent cancer research, strong and apparently conflicting epistemological stances have
been advocated by different research teams in a mist of an ever‐growing body of knowledge …

This publication is the fifth in the John Benjamins Publishing Company's Dylan Prestige
Series Multilingualism and Diversity Management. It extends, complements and integrates …

Philosophical analyses of biology have recently been dominated by a mechanistic
perspective. Examples taken from different domains in the life sciences, from molecular …

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) defined living organisms as objects
with an intrinsic purpose, which are self-organized in such a way that every part is a function …

Is it possible to omit parasites when studying free-living organisms? The answer is clearly
no! Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and now make up …