In the past few decades, so-called model organisms have become a cornerstone of research in the biomedical sciences. For the scientists, the model organism is both a practice ground for developing laboratory techniques, and a source of insights into common or even universal biological...

When the German translation of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1860, it intensified a conflict that German theologians had been fighting since the early 19th century. Arguments against the secular relativising or even thorough dismissal of the scientific, philosophical and...

There has been a remarkable growth in evolutionary economics since the 1980s. But despitethis outward success there has been inner disagreement on fundamental issues including thebuilding blocks of evolutionary theory and the very meaning of ‘evolution’ itself. This essayprovides a...

Ich werde meine Überlegungen in vier Abschnitten entwickeln. Auf die Problemexposition imersten Abschnitt folgt der zentrale zweite Abschnitt mit Überlegungen zur Ordnungsverantwortungder Unternehmen. Der dritte Abschnitt setzt sich mit der Kritik an der Ordnungsverantwortungvon Unternehmen...