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Biologists or philosophers of biology use Occam's razor in either of two contexts both in evolutionary biology: the units of selection controversy and systematics. George C. Williams in his book Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966) argues that the best way to explain altruism among animals is based on low-level (i.e., individual) selection ...
Allan McCulloch Campbell (April 27, 1929 – April 19, 2018) was an American microbiologist and geneticist and the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. [1] [2] His pioneering work on Lambda phage helped to advance molecular biology in the late 20th century. [3]
Neil Allison Campbell (April 17, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American scientist known best for his textbook, Biology, first published in 1987 and repeatedly through many subsequent editions. The title is popular worldwide and has been used by over 700,000 students in both high school and college -level classes.
Campbell is best known for his work on parasitic diseases. Japanese microbiologist Satoshi Ōmura isolated and cultured many varieties of natural soil-based bacteria from the group Streptomyces. Campbell led a team at Merck in studying Ōmura's cultures and examining their effectiveness in treating parasites in domestic and farm animals.
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books is a non-fiction book by Gary Paulsen, published on January 23, 2001 by Delacorte Books.It is about some of Paulsen's life adventures, including dog sledding in blizzards, being in a plane stalling in the air in the Arctic, watching as a little boy gets stabbed to death by a young buck, watching as a boy dies from a heart attack, dog ...
In biology, cell signaling (cell signalling in British English) is the process by which a cell interacts with itself, other cells, and the environment. Cell signaling is a fundamental property of all cellular life in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
The River, also known as The Return and Hatchet: The Return, is a 1991 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen.It is the second installment in the Hatchet series, although Brian's Winter (1996) kicks off an alternative trilogy of sequels to Hatchet that disregard The River from canon.
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (23 May 1954 – 5 October 2012) [1] was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.