biological phenomenon

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His research aims at understanding consciousness as a natural biologicalphenomenon and at fruitful interaction between philosophical and empirical research in the study of consciousness.
Even in a study of a clearly delineated biologicalphenomenon a variety of experimental methods are usually available.
Analytical models are simple but informative, describing a particular biologicalphenomenon with a reduced set of parameters.
His mutagenesis work once again proved valuable in unravelling a biologicalphenomenon.
A biologicalphenomenon such as evolution, despite its intrinsic uncertainty, is also likely to become a useful tool for software engineers.
Such results are commonly found in animal experiments and, indeed, would appear to be a generally universal biologicalphenomenon.
Because of this biologicalphenomenon, fertility behaviour of women who marry in adolescence is quite different from that of women who marry at later ages.
They construct old age as a naturalised, self-evidently negative, biologicalphenomenon, which must be attacked and defeated.
This relationship does not seem to be linked to measurement errors and might reflect a real biologicalphenomenon, which however deserves further investigations.
The process is known as developmental plasticity or fetal programming and is a well-recognised biologicalphenomenon.
And this is because any biologicalphenomenon can in principle be interpreted so as to fit in with it if one tries hard enough.
Overall this finding supports the notion that acute sickness behaviour is essentially a biologicalphenomenon whose function is adaptive.
The main premises of the argument for paternity testing are that parenthood is a biological phenomenon and that determinations of parentage should therefore adhere to the biological facts.
Apoptosis: a basic biologicalphenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics.
The theory treats the conscious phenomenal experience of dreaming as a natural biological phenomenon best understood from the combined viewpoints of psychology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience.
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