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Most of the inhabitiants of Krkonoše made their living by agriculture, brought by the colonists from the Alps in the second half of the 16th century. A demanding climate and low fertility of the soils did not make possible a cultivation of many products in higher altitudes. The local inhabitants were dependent on animal husbandry, and the animals fed mostly on hay. This commodity was of crucial importance...
Fleck’s social theory of science refers to many ethnological examples in order to explain how collective thinking and acting constructs certain systems of belief and knowing. According to Fleck, scientific concepts and practices are comparable with magic terms and ceremonies. This essay aims to identify the ethnological sources that Fleck’s epistemology is using. By confronting them with other relativistic...
The major focus of the article is on Georg Forster’s mode of elaborating a “science of man” in its theoretical and cultural contexts. The study aims at identifying Forster’s distinct interests in the specificity of mankind and his interpretation of both the reasons for its diversity and its different stages of development. Forster, the article argues, used a historicized version of Enlightenment natural...
Wir konnten kürzlich einen C825T-Polymorphismus im Gen GNB3 nachweisen, das für die Gβ3-Untereinheit heterotrimerer G-Proteine kodiert. Das 825T-Allel verusacht ein alternatives Spleißen des Gens und die Expression einer funktionell aktiven Deletionsvariante von Gβ3, welche als Gβ3s bezeichnet wird. Eine Genotypisierung bezüglich des C825T-Polymorphismus ermöglicht eine Vorhersage über die Stärke...
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