Martin Jacob Berger

Berger, K

Despite the importance of carnivores in terrestrial ecosystems, many nations have implemented well-coordinated, state-funded initiatives to remove predators, largely because of conflicts with humans over livestock. Although these control efforts have been successful in terms of the number of carnivores removed, their effects on the viability of the industries they seek to protect are less under...

Frédéric Berger

R1170 Current Biology 26, R1167–R1176, November 21, 2016 for the Science of Human History at Jena, Germany (Science (2016) 354, 268–269). The last surviving groups of tropical forest tribes are currently facing the threat of extinction due to the ongoing destruction of their forests (Curr. Biol. (2015) 25, R635–R638). Linking their plight to the need to conserve forests to combat climate change...

Berger algebras, weak-Berger algebras and Lorentzian holonomy

Jacob " Evolution and Tinkering " ( 1977 ) , by Francois Jacob

In his essay "Evolution and Tinkering," published in Science in 1977, François Jacob argues that a common analogy between the process of evolution [4] by natural selection [5] and the methods of engineering is problematic. Instead, he proposes to describe the process of evolution [4] with the concept of bricolage (tinkering). In this essay, Jacob does not deny the importance of the mechanism of...

Jacob Ross

How is what an agent ought to do related to what an agent ought to prefer that she does? More precisely, suppose we know what an agent’s preference ordering ought to be over the outcomes of performing the various courses of action open to her. Can we infer from this information how she ought to act, and if so, how can we infer it? One view (which, for convenience, I will call ‘actualism’) is th...