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Biological Biology - Articles
Biology of Mind
by
Laura
Posted
Sat 04 Jul 2009 9:12pm
I know: the biology of mental illness makes your head explode. Too geeky, too much talk of nature VS. nurture. Over-promising and underperforming false starts in finding mental disorder's homes on the genome. The tiresome sense that either biology or psychology has to "win."
Maybe it takes a Nobel brain to explain why studying genes isn't futile
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What is the Biological Clock?
by
Dr. William D.
Posted
Sun 14 Sep 2008 12:15am
The biological clock is a term applied to the brain process which causes us to have 24-hour fluctuations in body temperature, hormone secretion, and a host of other bodily activities. Its most important function is to foster the daily alternation of sleep and wakefulness. The biological clock is housed in a pair of tiny bilateral brain areas called
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Biological Functions of Vitamins
by
Blake H.
Posted
Mon 15 Jun 2009 4:41pm
Biological functions of vitamins. 1
Vitamins play a big role in how our body works. Make sure you get them — from real food.
William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch and Victor L. Katch, Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance, 6th ed (Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007): 46.
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Does culture accelerate biological evolution?
by
Gualtiero P.
Posted
Sat 26 Dec 2009 9:30am
On the Human has an interesting target article by Mark Stoneking, Professor of evolutionary genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antrhopology, on a question at the border of the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of biology: Does culture accelerate biological evolution or rather buffer our species from new selective pressures
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