Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact that indicate to infants that they are being addressed through communication, (ii) a subsequent referential expectation (satisfied by the use of decl...

Theories of learning are and always have been predominantly associative theories. However, in the study of animal learning, where these theories have historically been most dominant, a different conception is gaining ground. Whereas associative theories have their historical roots in the empiricist philosophy of mind, the alternative conception has its roots in evolutionary biology, more partic...

Abstract Géza Alföldy (1935–2011) is considered as one of the most important epigraphists and historians Roman civilization late 20th century, known also “Mommsen our ages”. His contribution indispensable not only for discipline epigraphy social history, but study religion. intellectual roots in Hungary influence Hungarian scholarly tradition 1950’s marked his interest religion a long period. I...

alister mcgrath criticizes atheistically evolutionary view of richard dawkins in natural sciences; and believes that the evidence that is put forward by dawkins for explanation of his hypothesis, is not compatible with the result of his argument. dawkins attacks against christianity in four arguments, and believes that science has removed god and religion is against every kind of demonstration ...

Religion has long played a very important role in different cultures and it is natural to imagine that when there is more instability or the deaths and crime rates are growing there are more loses and therefore more people look for consolation in religion. If that was the case there should be much more religiosity in Latin America less developed countries which is not true. In fact the United S...

stabilization of river terraces and natural soil slopes in rangelands by means of tree roots as a reinforcement agent is an environmental adopted method which needs to be developed. in this research a series of tests was carried out on soil blocks containing willow roots and without roots using a large scale in situ direct shear test apparatus. the results were analyzed based on direct shear th...

Modern medicine makes use of the natural sciences and their methods, which forgo the “God hypothesis”, explaining sickness and health „etsi Deus non daretur“. Up to modernity, the cultural history of sickness and health is, to a great extent, the history of religion. Only the advent of modern medicine, based on natural science, leads to a separation of medicine and religion, and thus also of he...

Plants are the important sources of drugs. Secondary metabolites are responsible for therapeutic propertiesin plants. Three compounds including (-)-hyoscyamine, its racemate atropine, and scopolamine (hyoscine) are the most famous tropane alkaloids in the Solanaceae familly. Nowadays, attempts to developthese alkaloids in biotechnological procedures which are principally based on the hairy root...