Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory /

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From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in Montgolfier's balloon to test the air over Paris, to the famous clone Dolly the Sheep and the Darwinian finches of the Galapagos, Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat offers a look at the use of plants and animals--including hum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harré, Rom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Research > History.
Science > History.
Animal experimentation > History.
Botany > History.
Laboratory animals.
Biological models.
Animal Experimentation > history
Animals, Laboratory
Human Experimentation > history
Research > history
Botany > history
Models, Biological
Sciences > Histoire.
Expérimentation animale > Histoire.
Animaux de laboratoire.
Modèles biologiques.
SCIENCE > Research & Methodology.
Animal experimentation.
Botany.
Research.
Science.
Naturwissenschaften
Pflanzen
Experiment
Tierversuch
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Instruments and apparatus : tools for experimenting
  • Detecting : hyenas, frogs, zebra fish, and assorted farm animals
  • Measuring : the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen, and pollen grains
  • Extending an established domain : dogs, horses, frogs, and trees
  • Exploring a new domain : a bald mouse, two chimpanzees, and some people
  • Testing hypotheses : more dogs, monkeys, and ticks
  • Modelling individuals : yet more dogs, a few mice, and one human stomach
  • Modelling worlds : voles, peas, fruit flies, finches, and deep oceanic worms
  • Practising deception : spring wheat and midwife toads
  • Inventing novel beings : an imaginary cat and virtual life forms.

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