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Encyclopedia > 1638 in science

The year 1638 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.


See also: 1637 in science, other events of 1638, 1639 in science and the list of years in science.


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The Evolutionary Ecology Of Science (9006 words)
In the future, the analysis should be extended to the sociobiology of science including the relationship between supervisors and their graduate and postdoctoral students and among peers e.g.
Hull's sophisticated Science as a Process (1988) is at once a treatise on the philosophy of science, the sociology of science, and evolutionary theory (whether instantiated biologically or socioculturally).
Much science involves not so much the kind of intensely competitive race made famous by Watson (1969), as it does precisely avoiding such races: with A studying X, B studying Y, C studying Z etc. However, negative frequency dependence can be added to, rather than simply substituted for, density dependence.
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