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• A Palindrome: Conscious Living Creatures as Instruments of Nature; The Latter as an Instrument of the Former.

  http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/a_palindrome.htm
  A palindromic relationship is reported between astrophysical-biological evolution and mind-possessing living creatures in it. Essay by Mario Crocco.

• Biodiversity

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biodiversity/
  Discussion of philosophical issues related to biological diversity; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Daniel P. Faith.

• Biological Altruism

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/
  Discussion of how altruistic behavior by organisms fits with the theory of evolution; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Samir Okasha.

• Biology and Philosophy

  http://link.springer.com/journal/10539
  Permits access to the table of contents for each of the archived issues of this journal. Also includes information for authors.

• Cognition and Biological Evolution

  http://cogprints.org/4811/
  Idealist philosophy resolves a fundamental paradox in the materialist account of evolution. Essay by Axel Randrup.

• Definition of Life

  http://baharna.com/philos/life.htm
  Reviews and analyzes various attempts to define life in terms of negentropy and complexity theory.

• If Horses Had Hands

  http://www.criminalanimal.org/people/writings/cyberchimp/horses.htm
  A philosophy paper by Tom Tyler examining the arguments on the concept of anthropomorphism.

• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

  http://ishpssb.org/
  ISHPSSB brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences, and the history, philosophy, and social studies of science.

• Philosophy of Biology Web Pages

  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dietrich/bio5.html
  Maintained by Michael R. Dietrich, of the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College; includes links to web sites and online articles dealing with the philosophy of biology and related subjects.

• Species

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/
  Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Marc Ereshefsky.

• Teleological Notions in Biology

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/
  Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Colin Allen.

• The Biological Notion of Self and Non-self

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-self/
  Stanford Encyclopedia entry on the notion of the immune self; by Alfred Tauber.

• Theoretical Biology and Philosophy of Biology

  http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/theobiophi.html
  A list of persons, institutes, research groups and journals within theoretical biology, philosophy and history of biology, and related areas of research.

• Virtual Reality:Consciousness Really Explained

  http://www.foothill.net/~jerryi/
  A scientific hypothesis for the origin of mind based in evolutionary biology. Includes downloadable manuscript and a few graphics.

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