Find your PDFs fast.
Welcome to the Pubget Medical Subject Headings (MESH) browser. Click on a topic or subtopic below to explore related papers. In the gold box is the most recent paper about the current MESH term, and below are 20 related papers.
Natural History (0):
Recent article
Natural History
Audio, Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on (52 Suppl 5) 2011
Abstract
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a rare epileptic encephalopathy with a peak age of onset of 3-5 years of age. Reported prevalence rates for LGS vary widely from 1-10% of all childhood epilepsies. Incidence rates are much lower. LGS is characterized by intractable, multiple, generalized seizure types...
|
PMID: 21790560
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
| < More recent | Older article > |
Scientific American (305)2 2011
Abstract
Abstract
The comparative study of vertebrate brains is inherently dependent upon access to a sufficient number of species and specimens to perform meaningful comparisons. Although many studies rely on compiling published information, continued specimen collection, in addition to more extensiv...
|
PMID: 21599690
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1225 Suppl 1) 2011
Abstract
Abstract
In the otherwise excellent special issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution on long-term ecological research (TREE 25(10), 2010), none of the contributors mentioned the importance of natural history collections (NHCs) as sources of data that can strongly complement past and ongoing survey data. Where...
|
PMID: 21255862
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Since Bruno Latour's discussion of a Sakhalin island map used by La Pérouse as part of a global network of "immutable mobiles," the commensurability of European and non-European knowledge has become an important issue for historians of science. But recent studies have challenged these dichotomous c...
|
PMID: 20575495
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
While "natural history" is practically synonymous with the name of Buffon, the term itself has been otherwise overlooked by historians of science. This essay attempts to address this omission by investigating the meanings of "physique," "natural philosophy," and "history," among other terms, with th...
|
PMID: 20575489
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Scholars in imperial and science studies have recently begun to examine more systematically the different ways knowledge systems around the world have intersected. This essay concentrates on one aspect of this process, the codification of research into "primitive" or "indigenous" knowledge, especial...
|
PMID: 20575493
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Why was sexual selection so important to Darwin? And why was it de-emphasized by almost all of Darwin's followers until the second half of the 20th century? These two questions shed light on the complexity of the scientific tradition named "Darwinism". Darwin's interest in sexual selection was almos...
|
PMID: 20338530
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Darwin's book on the Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) is often viewed as the continuation of The Origin of Species published 12 years earlier (1859), both because of the implicit parallelism between natural selection and sexual selection, and because Darwin himself presents the...
|
PMID: 20338531
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We study the two sources of these ideas and try to show how Darwin's comparative reflections on apes and "savages" made him the first evolutionist anthropologist.
2010. Published by Elsevier SAS....
|
PMID: 20338533
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Abstract
I discuss the origin of Charles Darwin's interest in cirripedes (barnacles). Indeed, he worked intensively on cirripedes during the years in which he was developing the theory that eventually led to the publication of The Origin of Species. In the light of our present knowledge, I present Darwin's a...
|
PMID: 20338525
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The role of movement in plants was unrecognised for a long time, due to the relative slowness of such movements by comparison with those of active animals such as insects and vertebrates, and to the difficulty with which they are distinguished from mere growth processes. Given this, the pioneer work...
|
PMID: 20338526
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We can learn to take a wider view of his most general theorising about animal and plant life.
2009 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved....
|
PMID: 20338529
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
In The Expression of the Emotions, Charles Darwin documents evolutionary continuity between animals and humans, emphasizing the universality of expressions in man. Most of the book addresses human behavior, and its influence on the study of animal behavior has been weak. The issue of natural selecti...
|
PMID: 20338536
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Annals of Science (67)1 2010
Abstract
Raphael Meldola FRS (1849-1915) was professor of chemistry at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury. He was a colleague and close friend of Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (1851-1916), the college principal and professor of physics. This paper follows an earlier one on Thompson and the ma...
|
PMID: 20503778
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
What is an "organism"? On the occurrence of a new term and its conceptual transformations 1680-1850.
Abstract
The essay reconstructs the occurrence of the term "organism" and the transformations of its concept from around 1680 to the middle of the nineteenth century. The different sections refer to individual authors who used the word "organism" and situate its usage in specific historical contexts. After ea...
|
PMID: 21162367
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
In the early twentieth century, botanists in South Africa's Western Cape sought urgently to popularise and protect the region's unique indigenous Fynbos flora. Plants imported from the 1840s, some of which proved invasive, became a physical and symbolic focus for their advocacy. The botanists' effor...
|
PMID: 20879182
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We argue challenges its utility for analysing contemporary socio-environmental crises. As an ecological concept, the metabolic rift is based on outmoded understandings of (agro) ecosystems and inadequately describes relations and interactions between labour and ecological processes. Historically, th...
|
PMID: 20645448
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The natural history expedition of the American banker and stock broker Francis E. Bond and companions to the Paria Peninsula and delta of the Orinoco, Venezuela, in early 1911 is described. Biographical details are provided for the three principles: Francis E. Bond, Stewardson Brown and Thomas S. Gi...
|
PMID: 21137585
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
British Journal for the History of Science (42)155 Pt 4 2009
Abstract
This paper focuses on the response of the Royal Society to the increasing contact with parts of the globe beyond Europe. Such contact was in accord with the programme of Baconian natural history that the early Royal Society espoused, but it also raised basic questions about the extent and nature of...
|
PMID: 20503959
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Thomas Hincks was born 15 July 1818 in Exeter, England. He attended Manchester New College, York, from 1833 to 1839, and received a B.A. from the University of London in 1840. In 1839 he commenced a 30-year career as a cleric, and served with distinction at Unitarian chapels in Ireland and England....
|
PMID: 20014505
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
médecine/sciences (25)4 2009
Abstract
Abstract
The Lancet (373)9662 2009
Abstract
Abstract
The origins of the contemporary collectorship dates from times when the sameness of art and science was commonly accepted. In those days relics of the ancient past and natural individuals of newly discovered lands were presented at the same time. Cosmological character of the collections manifested...
|
PMID: 20027930
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Victorian Studies (51)2 2009
Abstract
This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy was as important for Victorian naturalists as it was...
|
PMID: 19824199
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Victorian Studies (51)2 2009
Abstract
This essay focuses on the ways in which works by Robert Chambers, Charles Darwin, and George Eliot encouraged readers to imagine the future as contingent. But where Chambers alludes to Charles Babbage's computational engine and the period's life insurance industry to hint at the role of contingency...
|
PMID: 19824198
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Osler Library newsletter (111) 2009
Abstract
Victorian Studies (51)2 2009
Abstract
This article examines Darwin's use of diagram and text in the "Origin" by focusing on their interacting roles in his discussion of natural relations, extinction, and time. Each medium presented opportunities and challenges that depend on the topic in question; indeed, a medium's dimensionality could...
|
PMID: 19824197
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This paper studies Lamarck's evolutionary thought through four analytic elements. Firstly, Lamarckian construction of a founding evolutionary archetype. Secondly, the interpretation of nature as a material system where the organic change represents a continuous process aimed at the adaptative conser...
|
PMID: 21032942
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We have managed to make it enter into a "recession." This estrangement from reality and from natural phenomena, has seriously jeopardized the future of mankind on our planet and makes it necessary, even urgent, the search for a conception of biology based on scientific concepts and vocabulary that r...
|
PMID: 21032943
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
As a senior scientist working in the Fish Section of the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, Alwyne (Wyn) Wheeler was a regular library user and well-known to library staff. Always amiable and helpful, and possessing a broad general knowledge of natural history as well as expertise...
|
PMID: 19736693
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Edward Bancroft was a medical apprentice in Connecticut before running off to Guiana in 1763. While in South America, he practiced medicine and collected material for a lengthy book on the region, which he published after he settled in London. Bancroft's Essay (1769) contains a description of the "t...
|
PMID: 19168945
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Morphologie (92)299 2008
Abstract
André, Marie, Constant Duméril (1774-1860) served as a professor in the << faculté de médecine de Paris >> from 1801 to 1855. He was also chairman of herpetology and ichthyology of the << Muséum national d'histoire naturelle >> in Paris. The Paris-Descartes University (departmen...
|
PMID: 18951057
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Parassitologia (50)3-4 2008
Abstract
The histories of medical entomology and parasitology are entwined. Raphaël Blanchard (1857-1919), Chair of Medical Natural History and Parasitology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, organized the teaching of medical entomology and civilian colonial medicine. He also founded and edited the journa...
|
PMID: 20055230
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
British imperial expansion opened up new worlds for naturalists to collect and catalogue many species of plants and animals unknown in Europe. David Douglas' travels to the northwest region of North America in the 1820s exemplified, in many ways, the science of empire. Under the aegis of the Hudson'...
|
PMID: 18603300
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We DNA barcoded 2,597 parasitoid wasps belonging to 6 microgastrine braconid genera reared from parapatric tropical dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica and combined these data with records of caterpillar hosts and morphologic...
|
PMID: 18716001
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Van Helmont's work was of major importance in seventeenth-century medicine, chymistry and natural philosophy. His work was a source of inspiration and mystery and an authoritas. His oeuvre was, together with that of many others, the culminating point of an ongoing process, starting in the Middle Age...
|
PMID: 19048972
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Alfred Russel Wallace's role in prompting the original publication of "On the Origin of Species" is now generally acknowledged. Wallace is now widely recognised as 'Darwin's co-discoverer', but the role that he played in the development and promotion of Darwinism is more often overlooked. From the v...
|
PMID: 18534680
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Making a life-sized model of a blue whale is difficult. Making one to the exacting standards of 'scientific accuracy' is backbreaking. When, in the early 1960s, the American Museum of Natural History in New York undertook to fabricate a replica of the largest animal that ever lived, little was known...
|
PMID: 18538398
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Patients with FGFR3-associated craniosynostosis demonstrate a sexual dimorphism, with a male preponderance for unicoronal synostosis. A secondary major intracranial procedure is required for recurrent supraorbital retrusion in at least 43 percent of patients. A secondary or tertiary extracranial for...
|
PMID: 18317141
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
The Lancet (371)9614 2008
Abstract
New York Review of Books (55)2 2008
Abstract
Reviews of Steven Rose's The richness of life: the essential Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Jay Gould's Punctuated equilibrium.
|
PMID: 18271120
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Abstract
C.J. Temminck, director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (now the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden) and a renowned ornithologist, gained his contemporary's respect thanks to the description of many new species and to his detailed monographs on birds. He also published a small...
|
PMID: 19244845
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
La Bibliofilia (110)2 2008
Abstract
The article prints the text of a document in the Archivio di Stato, Venice, comprising a list of books intended for auction, with an estimate of their value. THey constitute the private library of Alessandro Pellati (d. 1487), a Paduan doctor about whom nothing is known, except his name appears in t...
|
PMID: 19618535
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
For some time a hightened interest in so-called "curiosity cabinets" of the 16th to 18th century has surfaced in the historical sciences as well as in exhibitions with popular appeal, the arts and literature. Johann Laurentius Bausch was among those who assembled such a collection of natural history...
|
PMID: 20617616
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenhaimb, academical learned physician of Breslau, offered his cooperation in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in 1658. In his letter of application he praised the programme of the academy and specified in this place and more detailed in the praeloquium of his Ampelographia...
|
PMID: 20617618
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Abstract
By means of indications this paper stresses the importance of the founder's father of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, Leonhard Bausch, for the academy founded 16 years after his death. The long array of the monographs of predecessors, listed by Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenhaimb, whereof nearly the...
|
PMID: 20617619
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Scientia canadensis (31)1-2 2008
Abstract
The Women's Art Association of Canada marked the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's "discovery" of Canada (celebrated in 1897) through the production of the "Canadian Historic Dinner Service." The high-profile project, which resulted in a set of hand-painted porcelain dinnerware, was a celebration no...
|
PMID: 19569390
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.
Scientia canadensis (31)1-2 2008
Abstract
British by birth Allan Cyril Brooks (1869-1946) emigrated to Canada in the 1880s, and became one of the most important North American bird illustrators during the first half of the twentieth century. Brooks was one of the leading ornithologists and wildlife collectors of the time; he corresponded ex...
|
PMID: 19569391
PDF is available here.
PDF is available here.