Ingo Brigandt is a German Canadian
philosopher
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and
Canada Research Chair
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in
Philosophy of Biology
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at the
University of Alberta
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.
He is an executive editor of the ''
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
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'' and an associate editor of ''
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution''.
Brigandt has held various grants and fellowships from the
Andrew Mellon Foundation
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,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
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, and the University of Alberta.
See also
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Heterochrony
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Reductionism
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Gavin de Beer
Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book ''Embryos and Ancestors''. He was director of the Natural History Museum, Lond ...
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Modern synthesis (20th century)
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Homology (biology)
In biology, homology is similarity in anatomical structures or genes between organisms of different taxa due to shared ancestry, ''regardless'' of current functional differences. Evolutionary biology explains homologous structures as retained her ...
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Evolutionary developmental biology
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Antireductionism Antireductionism is the position in science and metaphysics that stands in contrast to reductionism (anti-holism) by advocating that not all properties of a system can be explained in terms of its constituent parts and their interactions.
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References
External links
Ingo Brigandt at the University of AlbertaIngo Brigandt
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Canadian philosophy academics
Living people
Philosophy journal editors
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Konstanz alumni
Canadian philosophers of science
Canada Research Chairs
Canadian philosophers of mind
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