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Exploratory Temporal and Evolutionary Insights into the Filoviridae Family Through Multiprotein Phylogeny

open access: yesMicroorganisms
Filoviruses are among the most lethal viral human pathogens known, with significant relevance to public health, yet their evolutionary history remains poorly resolved.
Thiago S. Messias   +15 more
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Entropy and Entropy Production: Old Misconceptions and New Breakthroughs

open access: yesEntropy, 2013
Persistent misconceptions existing for dozens of years and influencing progress in various fields of science are sometimes encountered in the scientific and especially, the popular-science literature.
Leonid M. Martyushev
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Migration dynamics of an important rice pest: The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) across Asia—Insights from population genomics

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, 2020
Introduction Brown planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens) are the most serious insect pests of rice, one of the world's most important staple crops. They reproduce year‐round in the tropical parts of their distribution, but cannot overwinter in the temperate ...
James P. Hereward   +5 more
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Exploring Comparative Physiology and Evolution: Understanding Homologous Structures with Students

open access: yesCurrent: The Journal of Marine Education
A summer course designed for high school students compared different morphological features that evolved in response to locomotion. This course, as part of the USC Leslie and Bill McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative (USC NAI), provided 20 students ...
Dieuwertje J. Kast   +3 more
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BIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

open access: yesZygon, 1990
. The sciences may be conceptualized as a hierarchy ranked by level of organization (e.g., many‐body physics ranks above particle physics). Each science serves as an antidiscipline for the science above it; that is, between each pair, tense but creative
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Can Science Help Construct a New Global Ethic? The Development and Implications of Moral Transformation Theory

open access: yesZygon, 1999
This paper reports the results of a ten‐year search for consensus among scientific findings on the nature of the origin and development of moral sensitivity and morality. Significant agreement on six underlying factors was found.
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The Effect of Plant Supplements on the Development of Artificially Weaken Bee Families

open access: yesScientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023
In this study, infusions from nettle, thyme and Echinacea, fresh juice of onion and garlic, and Protofil (alcoholic extract of different plants enriched with vitamins and mineral elements), were used in supplementary feeding of artificially weaken bee ...
Liviu Al. Mărghitaș   +2 more
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Whole-Genome Sequencing Analyses Reveal the Evolution Mechanisms of Typical Biological Features of Decapterus maruadsi

open access: yesAnimals
Decapterus maruadsi is a typical representative of small pelagic fish characterized by fast growth rate, small body size, and high fecundity. It is a high-quality marine commercial fish with high nutritional value.
Wen-Jian Deng   +6 more
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Axiological and epistemological contributions to teaching the theory of evolution Darwin [PDF]

open access: yesInvestigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2011
From the essential role of theme “biological evolution” in scientific formation of students and the diversity of issues identified in the literature for teaching of the same, we developed a qualitative study through contributions of Didactics of Science ...
Lucken Bueno Lucas   +1 more
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Sexual selection and ecological-demographical context drive the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour

open access: yesScientific Reports
The occurrence of same-sex sexual behaviours (SSB) has long attracted the attention of researchers in evolutionary biology since these interactions do not directly lead to reproduction. The frequency of SSB is expected to vary depending on sexual context,
Maider Iglesias-Carrasco   +5 more
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