Ontology Talk at New York Botanical Garden
Updated: 2011-10-19 21:59:11
EO, The Ontology of Evolutionary Processes: Philosophical and practical issues New York Botanical Garden Bronx, NY 4 November 2011 Dobzhansky’s dictum, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution,” is recognized as a fundamental insight—an insight that the community of ontological engineers working in the life sciences has been slow to recognize. The Ontology [...]
What made the human brain? According to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, it was a giant obsidian monolith inspiring primates to use tools and weapons. Scientists have taken a more nuanced approach, looking for the biology behind the complex structures and enhanced function of the human brain. But merely comparing the genes expressed in [...]