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Taxonomy

...m to be disembedded from social relations and thus objective and universal. The most well-known and widely used scientific taxonomy is Linnaean taxonomy which classifies living things and originated with Carolus Linnaeus . This taxonomic system is accessible from the article evolutionary tree . A recent ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

...es are brain diseases... is not true. There are no objective diagnostic tests to confirm or disconfirm the diagnosis of depression... There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed... then ...

Microscope

...ore complex, with multiple lens components in both objective and eyepiece assemblies. These multi-component len...ope main elements ocular lens or eye-piece objective turret, or nosepiece objective lenses coarse adjustment knob fine adjustment knob object holde...

Human

... religions. Humanists affirm the possibility of an objective truth and accept that human perception of that truth is imperfect. The most basic tenets of humanism are that humans matter and can solve human problems, and that science , freedom of speech , rational thought , democracy , and freedom in the art...

Cladistics

...lows the use of these large data sets to construct objective phylogenies. These can more accurately filter out true synapomorphy from parallel evolution. Cladistics does not assume any particular theory of evolution, only the background knowledge of descent with modification. Thus, cladistic methods can be,...

Biodiversity

... From the viewpoint previously defined, no single objective measure of biodiversity is possible, only measures relating to particular purposes or applications. For practical conservationists, this measure should quantify a value that is at the same time broadly shared among locally-affected people. For oth...