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Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The irreversibility of complex trait loss has long been a tenet of evolutionary biology. However, this idea is increasingly at odds with the numerous documented exceptions across the Tree of Life. We synthesise this growing body of evidence across a diverse array of taxa and traits, exploring the evolutionary conditions that enable ...
Giobbe Forni +4 more
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Caste Prejudices in Denial: Analyzing Student Perceptions in an Indian University
CasteHow do caste prejudices vary across students from different socio-economic communities? Do perceptions on caste (e.g., inter-caste marriage, existence of caste in modern times, reservation policy, etc.) correlate with caste prejudice levels?
Anupam Yadav, Dhiraj Singha
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eConstructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion, and Caste\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Book review of Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion, and Caste. Edited by Chad M. Bauman and Richard Fox Young.
Schmalz, Mathew N.
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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The Nature of Caste Prejudice: A New Look at Prejudice, Social Identity, and Casteism in India
CasteMost research on caste prejudice is rooted in personality and individual difference approaches. As a result, there has been limited understanding of caste prejudice as an aspect of group psychology shaped by peoples’ sense of group positions. Drawing on
Suryodaya Sharma, Yashpal Jogdand
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Rural–Urban Digital Divide: Evidence From Indian States
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indian economy has achieved significant progress in recent years, with the country expected to contribute about 16% of the global growth. However, at the sub‐national level, economic development has been quite disparate over the decades, with widening inequality between the richer western and southern states and other parts of the country.
Rashmi Arora, Nikhil Sapre
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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement [PDF]
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement.
Fehr, Ernst +2 more
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Caste and Islamic Revivalist Movements: A Case Study of Eastern Muslims in Sri Lanka [PDF]
International Journal of Islamic Thought, 2018 Caste exists in all South Asian societies. Although the caste has become contentious among Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka, it suffered a fatal blow among the Tamils during the civil war.
Aboobacker Rameez
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