Vaccination, which is the most effective medical intervention that has ever been introduced, originated from the observation that individuals who survived a plague or smallpox would not get the ...

A fitness landscape relates the genotype of an organism to its reproductive capacity and therefore has a central role in evolutionary biology. Introduced in the 1930s, the fitness landscape concept ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...