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University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, California, US

2002-08-01 to present | Professor (Anthropology)
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Terrence W. DEACON

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Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1984-08-01 | PhD (Biological Anthropology)
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Terrence W. DEACON

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Boston University: Boston, MA, US

1992 to 2002 | Professor (Anthropology)
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Terrence W. DEACON

Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US

1992 to 2001 | Research Faculty (McLean Hospital)
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Terrence W. DEACON

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1984 to 1992 | Professor (Anthropology)
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Terrence W. DEACON

Works (7)

Lateralized cerebellar connectivity differentiates auditory pathways in echolocating and non-echolocating whales

2024-09-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.18.609772
Contributors: Sophie Flem; Gregory Berns; Ben Inglis; Dillon Niederhut; Eric Montie; Terrence Deacon; Karla L. Miller; Peter Tyack; Peter F. Cook
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Origins of biological teleology: how constraints represent ends

Synthese
2024-08-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04705-w
Contributors: Miguel García-Valdecasas; Terrence W. Deacon
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Biological functions are causes, not effects: A critique of selected effects theories

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.11.002
Contributors: Miguel García-Valdecasas; Terrence W. Deacon
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A thermodynamic basis for teleological causality

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2023-08-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0282
Contributors: Terrence W. Deacon; Miguel García-Valdecasas
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A degenerative process underlying hierarchic transitions in evolution

Biosystems
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104770
Contributors: Terrence W. Deacon
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Steps to a semiotic cognitive neuroscience

2022-09-23 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003051817-4
Contributors: Terrence W. Deacon
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How Molecules Became Signs

Biosemiotics
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-021-09453-9
Contributors: Terrence W. Deacon
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