Nina KrankeUniversity of Freiburg | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology
Nina Kranke
Doctor of Philosophy
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In recent discussions, the widespread conviction that scientific individuation practices are governed by theories and concepts of biological individuality has been challenged, particularly by advocates of practice-based approaches. This discussion raises questions about the relationship between individuation practices and concepts of individuality....
Tree diagrams are the prevailing form of visualization in biological classification and phylogenetics. Already during the time of the so-called Systematist Wars from the mid-1960s until the 1980s most journal articles and textbooks published by systematists contained tree diagrams. Although this episode of systematics is well studied by historians...
Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list is one of the most important quantitative performance indicators in science and influences individual careers and also the reputation of research institutions. However, many researchers and representatives of institutions and funding agencies are not familiar with the method that is applied to generat...
Recently, two research traditions that bring together evolutionary biology and medicine, i.e., Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine, have been identified. In this paper, I analyse these two research traditions with respect to explanatory and interdisciplinary integration. My analysis shows that Darwinian medicine does not integrate medicine...
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Cou...
Historical explanations in evolutionary biology are commonly characterized as narrative explanations. Examples include explanations of the evolution of particular traits and explanations of macroevolutionary transitions. In this paper, I present two case studies of explanations in accounts of pathogen evolution and host-pathogen coevolution, respec...
Discussions of reproducibility are casting doubts on the credibility of experimental outcomes in the life sciences. Although experimental evolution is not typically included in these discussions, this field is also subject to low reproducibility, partly because of the inherent contingencies affecting the evolutionary process. A received view in exp...
In the context of animal experimentation, laboratory workers fluctuate between seeing animals used in research as tools or objects and seeing them as sentient living beings. Most laboratory workers do not wholly lose their empathy and their ability to connect with other living beings. To deal with the fact that their job involves harming and killin...
We present two case studies from contemporary biology in which we observe conflicts between established and emerging approaches. The first case study discusses the relation between molecular biology and systems biology regarding the explanation of cellular processes, while the second deals with phylogenetic systematics and the challenge posed by re...
Traditionally, philosophers of biology have analyzed questions about individuality in terms of metaphysics and favored theory-centered approaches. More recently, however, the interest in studying scientific practices and discussing epistemological questions surrounding individuality has increased (e.g. Pradeu 2012; Kovaka 2015; Chen 2016). Followin...
Discussing the role of gender, female researchers, feminsim and feminist theory in primatology. This is the abstract of an article already published in German language: Böhnert, M.; Kranke, N. (2018). Riot Grrrl Primatology. Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften. In: Wunsch, Matthias; Böhnert, Martin; Köchy, Kristian (Hrsg...
Die Rekonstruktion der Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen innerhalb der Gruppe der Laurasiatheria gestaltet sich kompliziert. Vor allem die Stammesgeschichte der Fledertiere, Unpaarhufer, Raubtiere und Cetartiodactyla, zu denen Paarhufer und Wale gehören, ist umstritten. Die Analyse springender Gene von Fledermaus, Pferd, Hund und Kuh zeigte nun, dass es s...
Within the last couple of decades, evolutionary explanations of diseases have become increasingly significant. An example for evolutionary explanations in medicine is the so-called old-friends hypothesis that explains increasing incidences of autoimmune diseases in industrialized countries. The hypothesis suggests that the lack of exposure to vario...
Solving complex problems that consist of many interrelated questions usually requires expertise from different research fields or even different scientific disciplines. Explaining and controlling human diseases can be seen as an example for a complex problem. While medical researchers and practitioners usually seek to explain medical conditions wit...
I discuss phylogenetic trees in the context of narrative science and historical explanation. Phylogenetic trees are predominantly bifurcating dendrograms that biologists use to represent evolutionary trajectories of species and phylogenetic relationships, i.e. patterns of shared ancestry. They are typically constructed from molecular data with comp...
Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte Philosophie der Tierforschung wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet und ergänzt es durch ein...
Solving complex problems that consist of many interrelated questions usually requires expertise from different research fields or even different scientific disciplines, hence explanatory aims that are shared by two or more disciplines can motivate interdisciplinary research. Explaining and controlling human diseases can be seen as an example for a...
Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms (e.g. populations or species) or individual organisms. Research practices in this field are characterized by a high degree of molecularization, i.e. a predominant use of molecular characters, e.g. protein and DNA sequences. In my paper, I examine the preconditions an...