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Does Meaning Evolove? [PDF]

, 2004
A common method of improving how well understood a theory is, is by comparing it to another theory which has been better developed. Radical interpretation is a theory which attempts to explain how communication has meaning.
D.Roberts, Mark
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Entropic Sampling and Natural Selection in Biological Evolution

, 1998
With a view to connecting random mutation on the molecular level to punctuated equilibrium behavior on the phenotype level, we propose a new model for biological evolution, which incorporates random mutation and natural selection.
Adami C, Bak P, Boettcher S, D Kim, Dobzhansky T, Futuyma D J, Gould S J, Gould S J, H Y Lee, Kimura M, Kimura M, Lee J, M Y Choi, Raup D M, Raup D M, S H Park, Sepkoski J J, Sneppen K, Willis J C   +18 more
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The biological origin of linguistic diversity [PDF]

, 2012
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to signal differences in meaning; some languages lack the noun-verb distinction
A Beja-Pereira, Andrea Baronchelli, D Gil, FC Dyer, K Smith, LL Cavalli-Sforza, M Dunn, MA Nowak, MB Miller, MH Christiansen, Morten H. Christiansen, N Chater, N Evans, Nick Chater, NL Komarova, PJ Richerson, R Boyd, R Jackendoff, RD Gray, Ricard V. Solé, RM Seyfarth, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, RT Hanlon, S Dehaene, S Pinker, S Számadó, SA Tishkoff, SC Levinson, TL Griffiths   +28 more
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Satellite‐Derived NDVI Predicts Forage Availability in a Wild Ungulate System: Ground‐Truthing Using Field‐Collected Vegetation Biomass

Ecology and Evolution
Satellite‐derived vegetation indices provide a powerful means to quantify habitat variation in long‐term ecological studies, but their reliability as proxies for forage availability in wild herbivore populations remains underexplored.
Shane Butt, Kirsty Macphie, Richard S. Turner, Sean J. Morris, Alison Morris, Robin Pakeman, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, J. M. Pemberton, H. Froy   +8 more
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Seasonal variation in defense behavior in European and scutellata-hybrid honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southern California

Scientific Reports, 2023
Nest defense in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a complex collective behavior modulated by various interacting social, environmental, and genetic factors. Scutellata-hybrid (“Africanized”) honey bees are usually considered to be far more defensive than
Daniela Zarate, Brandon Mukogawa, Joshua Kohn, James C. Nieh   +3 more
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Age-Dependent Host-Parasite Relations

, 2007
The death of a biological population is an extreme event which we investigate here for a host-parasitoid system. Our simulations using the Penna ageing model show how biological evolution can ``teach'' the parasitoids to avoid extinction by waiting for ...
Ana Proykova, Dietrich Stauffer, Karl-Heinz Lampe, Lampe, Malarz, Moss de Oliveira, Pal, Stauffer   +7 more
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Quadruple context-free L-System mathematical tools as origin of biological evolution [PDF]

, 2010
It is well known that A, T, G, C annealed together early in evolution and the long stretch of DNA was found which ultimately resulted into chromosomes of different organisms.
Arunava Goswami, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Rajneesh Singh, Sk. Sarif Hassan, Sk. Sarif Hassan   +4 more
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Ancient and Current Chaos Theories [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2006
Chaos theories developed in the last three decades have made very important contributions to our understanding of dynamical systems and natural phenomena. The meaning of chaos in the current theories and in the past is somewhat different from each other.
Güngör Gündüz
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Origin of Life: The Point of No Return

Life, 2020
Origin of life research is one of the greatest scientific frontiers of mankind. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life began. Although different hypotheses emphasize different initial phenomena, all of them agree around one important ...
Dimiter Kunnev
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Unlearned adaptive responses to heterospecific referential alarm calls in two bird species from separate evolutionary lineages

Scientific Reports, 2023
The interspecific responses to alarm signals may be based on unlearned mechanisms but research is often constrained by the difficulties in differentiating between unlearned and learned responses in natural situations.
Jungmoon Ha, Keesan Lee, Eunjeong Yang, Woojoo Kim, Hokyung Song, Injae Hwang, Larisa Lee-Cruz, Jinseok Park, Jihyeon Song, Chan-ryul Park, Wooshin Lee, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-im Lee   +12 more
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