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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

“Epistolary Mediation”: An Excursus on Lovelace’s Four Pronouncements of the Parenthesis in Letter 211 of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-48)

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2023-December-13
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Testing biological hypotheses with embodied robots: adaptations, accidents, and by-products in the evolution of vertebrates

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2014-November-12
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Evolutionary robotics allows biologists to test hypotheses about extinct animals. In our case, we modeled some of the first vertebrates, jawless fishes, in order to study the evolution of the trait after which vertebrates are named: vertebrae. …

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