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Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of biological theory, or through the invention of fictional organisms.
Absolute geometry is an incomplete axiomatic system, in the sense that one can add extra independent axioms without making the axiom system inconsistent. One can extend absolute geometry by adding various axioms about parallel lines and get mutually incompatible but internally consistent axiom systems, giving rise to Euclidean or hyperbolic ...
24 lut 2024 · Biology, however, no longer relies on imagined monsters to suggest the forms of our ancestors. Instead, it focuses on evidence from fossils and from currently living organisms—but is removing imagination a good approach? How can science fiction—face-paint, prosthetics, and all—help us understand the origins of life on earth?
1 maj 2001 · Examples of log-normal distributions in the social sciences and economics include age of marriage, farm size, and income. The age of first marriage in Western civilization follows a three-parameter log-normal distribution; the third parameter corresponds to age at puberty ( Preston 1981 ).
12 lis 2014 · The notion of a higher geometrical dimension, “the fourth dimension of space,” has been a vital stimulus for both writers of science fiction and artists since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Indeed, it was science fiction writers like H....
4 cze 1999 · Abstract. Fractal-like networks effectively endow life with an additional fourth spatial dimension. This is the origin of quarter-power scaling that is so pervasive in biology. Organisms have evolved hierarchical branching networks that terminate in size-invariant units, such as capillaries, leaves, mitochondria, and oxidase molecules.
2 paź 2014 · While some have seen extrapolation and speculation as opposites, others have seen them as sequential stages in an imaginative process, and still others have used the terms interchangeably, the distinctions between them blurred by differing conceptions of plausibility and of science.
