Feijoo, Science in God's Service. Defender of modern science and an enemy of error, friar Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676-1764) is the great disseminator of Spanish Illustration; despite this, neither his
Giordano Bruno and the “New Philosophy”: the Infinite Universe and the Plurality of the Worlds. Giordano Bruno is often considered as a martyr of the first scientific revolution or as
Pierre Belon, a Modern Zoologist of the Renaissance. In the middle ages, the treasure of natural history learning was the Bestiary, in which biology and symbolism were mixed in similar
Leonardo da Vinci, between Fantasy and Reason. Throughout history Leonardo da Vinci has passed as a creative genius in all fields (l'uomo universale). However, contemporary historiography has imposed drastic limits
Quan Johann Wolfgang Goethe va explicar a Frederich Shiller la seua teoria de la metamorfosi de les plantes, aquest va contestar de manera tallant: "Tot em sembla bé, però no
La textura dels aliments El sabor i la textura són dos criteris que s’utilitzen per a caracteritzar i acceptar o rebutjar els aliments. El delicat sabor d’una torta del Casar, típica
Hopefully it’s a tale about monsters. The evolution of languages: continuity and catastrophe. The biological evolution of human language is basically a continuous process in which bodily preconditions were provided.
Humanization and the language process. Six million years ago the big apes started an evolutive process that gave rise to our own species, Homo sapiens. No matter how many biological
From signification to communication: taking a look at non-human signalling. Within a social context animal signalling displays diversity along two convergent axes, from expression to fully intentional communication and from close
Does the language faculty lie in our genes? Traditionally, language was considered as one of the most representative examples of cultural transmission (as opposed to biological transmission), a purely cultural
Don’t talk about it! The origin of language is taboo. The origin of language has traditionally been a rather difficult issue within linguistic theory. Mankind descends from primates and linguistic
La qüestió dels fonaments biològics del llenguatge ha interessat des de sempre i pot orientar-se segons es conceben les llengües com a instrument de coneixement o com a eina de comunicació.
Els sistemes dinàmics dissipatius perden energia contínuament i açò determina el seu destí dintre del sistema en què existeixen. Els anomenats «atractors estranys» hi juguen un paper rellevant.