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The present paper tries to honour Charles Darwin's memory in the year in which the world celebrates the 200 anniversary of his birth and the 150 of the publication of The Origin of Species. After pointing out that the basis of his theory of evolution, "improvement of species", is a time-dependent concept, commenting on the role that atrophied organs played in Darwin's work and relating this with Darwinian medicine, it is suggested that stem cell and cardiovascular therapies could be perhaps connected with some of the ideas and possibilities already envisaged by Darwin and mentioned in one of his books, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868).
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Doenças Cardiovasculares/cirurgia , Evolução Molecular , Aptidão Genética , Miocárdio/patologia , Regeneração , Transplante de Células-Tronco , Pesquisa Translacional Biomédica , Aniversários e Eventos Especiais , Atrofia , Doenças Cardiovasculares/genética , Doenças Cardiovasculares/patologia , Doenças Cardiovasculares/fisiopatologia , História do Século XIX , Humanos , Regeneração/genéticaRESUMO
In this article we present and comment on three letters written, respectively, by Fernando de Castro, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, and Justo Gomez Ocerin, concerning the imprisonment and liberation of the Italian scientist Giuseppe Levi in 1934. These documents reveal the great interest that Ramon y Cajal took in the problem and his intervention in the liberation of his colleague. In addition, they show that the controversy about collaterals between Golgi and Cajal was still alive and demonstrate that Cajal did not possess Golgi's original publication.
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Neurofisiologia/história , Sistemas Políticos/história , Prisioneiros/história , Correspondência como Assunto/história , Liberdade , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , ItáliaRESUMO
La introducción en España de la fonética experimental, una rama de la lingüística fronteriza con las ciencias, tuvo como uno de sus principales protagonistas a Tomás Navarro Tomás, que dirigió un Laboratorio de Fonética en el Centro de Estudios Históricos de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios. En este artículo se reconstruye una parte esencial de la formación de Navarro Tomás en ese campo, utilizando para ello las cartas que envió a Ramón Menéndez Pidal mientras estuvo pensionado en el extranjero (Francia y Alemania) por la Junta en 1912-1913. Se trata de una correspondencia que, además, presenta una excelente visión de la comunidad fonética europea de la época (AU)
The introduction in Spain of experimental phonetics, a branch of linguistic close to science, had as one of its main protagonists Tomás Navarro Tomás, who was the director of a Laboratory of Phonetics at the Historical Studies Center of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios. In this article, we study Navarro Tomáss education in that field, making use of the letters he sent to Ramón Menéndez Pidal while he was abroad (France and Germany) supported by the Junta in 1912-1913. Besides, that correspondence presents an splendid view of the European phonetic community of the time (AU)
