Drift: A Historical and Conceptual Overview

Drift: A Historical and Conceptual Overview

Anya Plutynski Department of Philosophy University of Utah [email protected] Abstract There are several different ways in which chance affects evolutionary change. That all of these processes are called “random genetic drift” is in part due to common elements across these different processes, but is also a product of historical borrowing of models and language across different level...

A Conceptual Analysis and Historical Overview of Information Literacy

A conceptual analysis is undertaken of information literacy by investigating some leading definitions and delineations of the concept. These are analyzed with the intention of exploring chronological extensions in the meaning of the concept. The range of skills and knowledge required for information literacy has . expanded over the last two decades in order to accommodate the continually develo...

RTV4HCI: A Historical Overview

Epigenetics: a historical overview.

In the first half of the twentieth century, developmental biology and genetics were separate disciplines. The word epigenetics was coined by Waddington to link the two fields. Epigenetics could be broadly defined as the sum of all those mechanisms necessary for the unfolding of the genetic programme for development. Several decades later specific mechanisms were proposed in which information wa...

A Conceptual Overview

A lthough the term stress as it relates to the human condition has been in the scientific literature since the 1930s and in the nursing literature since the late 1950s, the word did not become popular vernacular until the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today, the term is used in everyday vocabulary to capture a variety of human experiences that are disturbing or disruptive in some manner: “You wou...