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Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor [PDF]

eLife, 2021
Evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) involve the formation of Darwinian collectives from Darwinian particles. The transition from cells to multicellular life is a prime example. During an ETI, collectives become units of selection in their own right. However, the underlying processes are poorly understood.
Bourrat, Pierrick, Doulcier, Guilhem, Rose, Caroline J., Rainey, Paul B., Hammerschmidt, Katrin   +4 more
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Cheating Promotes Coexistence in a Two-Species One-Substrate Culture Model

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Cheating in microbial communities is often regarded as a precursor to a “tragedy of the commons,” ultimately leading to over-exploitation by a few species and destabilization of the community.
Constantinos Xenophontos, Constantinos Xenophontos, W. Stanley Harpole, W. Stanley Harpole, W. Stanley Harpole, Kirsten Küsel, Kirsten Küsel, Adam Thomas Clark, Adam Thomas Clark, Adam Thomas Clark   +9 more
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CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016
The article examines cross-cultural aspects of metaphorical framing in political discourse. The author notes the importance of conceptual metaphor in framing the conceptual domain of politics, political discourse as a whole, its perception as well as ...
T. V. Andryukhina
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Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide [PDF]

, 2018
This paper mobilizes transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people as being like children.
Lefrancois, B. A., Mills, C.
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COEVOLUTIONARY SEMANTICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION GENESIS AND EVOLUTIONARY RISK (BETWEEN THE BIOAESTHETICS AND BIOPOLITICS)

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2016
Purpose (metatask) of the present work is to attempt to give a glance at the problem of existential and anthropological risk caused by the contemporary man-made civilization from the perspective of comparison and confrontation of aesthetics, the ...
V. T. Cheshko, O. M. Kuz
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]

, 2013
Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan, Braeckman, Johan, Schellens, Tammy, Soetaert, Ronald, Van Keer, Hilde   +4 more
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Flocking together : collective animal minds in contemporary fiction [PDF]

, 2020
The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a full-fledged form of collective cognition.
Caracciolo, Marco
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Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes [PDF]

, 2013
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Bowden, John
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Models and metaphors: complexity theory and through-life management in the built environment [PDF]

, 2008
Complexity thinking may have both modelling and metaphorical applications in the through-life management of the built environment. These two distinct approaches are examined and compared.
Allen P. M., Allen P. M., Arthur B. W., Arthur B. W., Baldwin A. N., Ballard G., Ballard G., Ballard G., Berry J. S., Bertelsen S., Bertelsen S., Bertelsen S., Bertelsen S., Bresnen M., Burke K., Button G., Button G., Carroll T., Carys Siemieniuch, Codd E. F., de Bono E., Dijkstra J., Dutton J. M., Ella-Mae Molloy, Gardner M., Garfinkel H., Garfinkel H., Gershenson C. H., Groak S., Guastello S. J., Handy C., Hofstede G., Hopp W. J., Ivory C., John Rooke, Kanter R. M., Koskela L., Koskela L., Kosko B., Lauri Koskela, Livingston E., Mike Kagioglou, Mittleton-Kelly E., Mohan Siriwardena, Morgan G., Murray Sinclair, Parsons T., Parsons T., Payr S., Peters T. J., Richardson K., Robertson D. A., Ryle G., Sacks H., Sacks H., Schutz A., Seese D., Shen W., Smallwood J., Stacey R. D., Steeb W.-H., Strauss A., Thomassen M. A., von Neumann J., Weber M., Wittgenstein L., Wolfram S.   +66 more
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Ross-Cultural Aspects of Metaphorical Framing in Political Discourse

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016
The article examines cross-cultural aspects of metaphorical framing in political discourse. The author notes the importance of conceptual metaphor in framing the conceptual domain of politics, political discourse as a whole, its perception as well as ...
Tatyana V. Andryukhina
doaj   +2 more sources