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Apr 28, 2013 · John Sallis begins his Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental ( 2000) by regretting the Husserlian phenomenological tradition’s tendency to subordinate imagination to pure perception in an effort to “ [protect] the bodily presence of the perceived from imaginal contamination.”208 Sallis argues that the force of imagination cannot be re...
Jan 10, 2017 · Sallis utilizes German Idealism and American Transcendentalism to establish differing conceptions of nature as well as to interpret what a return to nature might mean for us today. Specifically, he focuses on the works of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling in order to give an account of nature.
Jul 12, 2024 · Everything alive today derives from a single common ancestor known affectionately as LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). LUCA is the hypothesized common ancestor from which all modern cellular...
Aug 16, 2024 · Billions of years before all of that happened, however, the common ancestor of all living organisms, the last universal common ancestor (Luca), must have existed. Scientists have worked on identifying Luca over the decades with different ideas about what Luca was like.
Sep 27, 2012 · Regardless of its ultimate sources, the organic material that may have accumulated on the early Earth before life existed very likely consisted of a wide array of different types of compounds, including many of the simple compounds that play a major role in biochemistry today.
- Antonio Lazcano
- alar@ciencias.unam.mx
- 2012
Aug 23, 2024 · Everything alive today descends from a cell that lived 4.2 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after Earth formed, new research suggests.
Mar 11, 2011 · The most fundamental claim of biological evolution is that all living organisms represent the outer tips of a diversifying, upward-branching tree of life. The “tree of life” is an extremely powerful metaphor that captures the essence of evolution.
