This essay explores the impact of 'generalism' and 'general practice' on the specialisation of British medicine using the case of neurology in Britain to reveal characteristics of British 'generalist medical culture' from 1870 to 1990. It argues that 'generalism' represented a particular epistemological position in Victorian medicine, one that then created a natural bridge between science and m...

The distribution of parasites across mammalian hosts is complex and represents a differential ability or opportunity to infect different host species. Here, we take a macroecological approach to investigate factors influencing why some parasites show a tendency to infect species widely distributed in the host phylogeny (phylogenetic generalism) while others infect only closely related hosts. Us...

in this, paper, i am going to present an argument in favour of generalism and criticise the particularistic position in moral reasoning... according to generalism which is associated with supervenience, the way in which a morlly relevant feature contributes to the moral evaluation of different contexts is patternable. however, a particularist like dancy utilizes the very idea of resultance  ins...

The evolution of resource specialism and generalism has attracted widespread interest. Evolutionary drivers affecting niche differentiation and resource specialization have focused on the role of trade-offs. Here, however, we explore how the role of cooperation, mediated through altruistic behaviors, and classic resource-consumer dynamics can influence the evolution of resource utilization. Usi...

Abstract Life on Earth is complex and generally abounds in food webs with other living organisms terms of an ecological community. Besides such complexity, the fact that populations most have never been studied their molecular ecology, it best to tread carefully when describing a given species as ‘generalist’, more especially dietary habitat breadth. We very much doubt population homogeneity ev...