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Culture and Biological Adaptation
American Anthropologist, 1965THE results of one phase of a recently completed study which are pertinent to the question of the biological adaptiveness of culture are presented here. For the purpose of interpreting the genetic characteristics of Pacific Island peoples, research was initially directed to the problem of identifying the determinants of size, structure and dynamics of ...
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Ethanol and biological membranes: Injury and adaptation
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 1983Ethanol intoxication affects the protein and lipid constituents of biological membranes. Mitochondria exhibit specific decreases in components of the electron transport chain and in protein synthesis. In vitro ethanol reduces the transition temperatures of membrane-bound enzyme activities and decreases the order parameter.
E, Rubin, H, Rottenberg
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Biological Adaptation: A Reply
Philosophy of Science, 1972Michael Ruse [3] has criticized the distinction between biological function and evolutionary adaptation that I argued for in my article “Biological Adaptation” [2]. I shall show below that Ruse's criticisms are not, for the most part, well taken and that the distinction remains as I made it.
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Thermal Adaptation in Biological Membranes: Is Homeoviscous Adaptation the Explanation?
Annual Review of Physiology, 1995The phase behavior and physical properties of lipids in biological membranes are exquisitely sensitive to changes in temperature (50). Because membranes (a) act as physical barriers to solute diffusion, (b) mediate the transmembrane movement of specific solutes, (c) regulate the utilization of energy stored in transmembrane ion gradients, Cd) provide ...
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Adaptive optimization and the harvest of biological populations
Mathematical Biosciences, 1996Adaptive management of renewable biotic resources accounts explicitly for uncertainties in system responses to management and recognizes the importance of reducing uncertainties while pursuing other management goals. An adaptive approach to the harvest of wildlife populations that are subject to (1) uncontrollable environmental variation, (2 ...
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Science, 1969
Adaptation is an aspect of virtually all questions of human biology. Besides their interest in evolution through adaptive selection of the primates, including man, physical anthropologists are concerned with biological adaptability as a human attribute.
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Adaptation is an aspect of virtually all questions of human biology. Besides their interest in evolution through adaptive selection of the primates, including man, physical anthropologists are concerned with biological adaptability as a human attribute.
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Genetic and Biological Aspects of Zebu Adaptability
Journal of Animal Science, 1980The utility and documentation of traits and characteristics of Zebu, Bos indicus, cattle in beef production in the United States are discussed with reference to adaptation. Zebu cattle are uniquely suited to hot climates due to coat, hide, skin and hematological attributes.
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Physical models of biological information and adaptation
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1985The bio-informational equivalence asserts that biological processes reduce to processes of information transfer. In this paper, that equivalence is treated as a metaphor with deeply anthropomorphic content of a sort that resists constitutive-analytical definition, including formulation within mathematical theories of information.
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Adaptation? Learning? Features of biological learning
2012 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS), 2012All living organisms can learn the behavior appropriate to the environment. The learning process is, however, seems to be the convergence to the adapted behavior rather than learning. Living organisms can create the appropriate behavior through the behavior control in the environment.
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Engineered Jumpers Overcome Biological Limits via Work Multiplication
Nature, 2022Elliot W Hawkes +2 more
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