foundational

Core concepts upon which other understanding builds. Foundational principles in biology—like natural selection or thermodynamics—constrain and enable all higher-level phenomena.

30 entities tagged with "foundational"

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The Only Thing That Matters

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Target Big Markets

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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

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Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

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Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

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Mammalian hibernation: cellular and molecular responses to depressed metabolism and low temperature

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Power-law distributions in empirical data

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Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation

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Sexual Selection Theory Development

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The Power of Movement in Plants

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The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

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Quorum sensing in bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI family of cell density-responsive transcriptional regulators

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On Being the Right Size

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Body size and metabolism

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Some Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity for Biological Control

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The Theory of Island Biogeography

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Quorum sensing in bacteria

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Cours d'économie politique

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The Theory of the Growth of the Firm

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Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record

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Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model

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Beiträge zur Sozialpsychologie des Haushuhns

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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

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The Architecture of Complexity

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A new evolutionary law

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Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

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Evolution in Mendelian Populations

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Mate selection - a selection for a handicap

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