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scala naturae

scala naturae noun: synonym of great chain of being.

Noun

scala naturae

  1. Synonym of great chain of being.
    • The above examples illustrate several misunderstandings of nervous-system evolution. The first problem is that these ideas reflect a scala naturae view of evolution in which animals can be arranged linearly from “simple” to the most “complex” organisms. This view is unrealistic in that neural and...2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions in Psychological Science, volume 29, number 3

Synonyms of scala naturae

Questions about scala naturae

What does scala naturae mean?
Scala naturae means synonym of great chain of being.
What part of speech is scala naturae?
Scala naturae is a noun.

Words near scala naturae in the dictionary

  1. scaithing
  2. scaithless
  3. scaiths
  4. scal
  5. scala
  6. scala naturae
  7. Scala Nuova
  8. scala tympani
  9. scala tympanis
  10. scala vestibuli
  11. scala vestibulis

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