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Robots, Extinction, and Salvation: On Altruism in Human–Posthuman Interactions

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Posthumanism and transhumanism are philosophies that envision possible relations between humans and posthumans. Critical versions of posthumanism and transhumanism examine the idea of potential threats involved in human–posthuman interactions (i.e ...
Juraj Odorčák, Pavlína Bakošová
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Radiocarbon and genomic evidence for the survival of Equus Sussemionus until the late Holocene

open access: yeseLife, 2022
The exceptionally rich fossil record available for the equid family has provided textbook examples of macroevolutionary changes. Horses, asses, and zebras represent three extant subgenera of Equus lineage, while the Sussemionus subgenus is another ...
Dawei Cai   +21 more
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Testing the Resource Hypothesis of Species–Area Relationships: Extinction Cannot Work Alone

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2022
The mechanisms that underpin the species–area relationship (SAR) are crucial for both the development of biogeographic theory and the application of biodiversity conservation.
Wei Deng   +5 more
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Mass extinctions [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2005
Factors influencing the evolution of complex traits such as body size are notoriously difficult to study but a new review of work on marine iguanas in the Galapagos islands suggests an answer may lie in the interplay of natural and sexual selection.
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From Bench to Brain: A Metadata-driven Approach to Research Data Management in a Collaborative Neuroscientific Research Center

open access: yesData Science Journal
Research data management (RDM) is key to fast and effective cooperation in collaborative research projects, especially when several scientific disciplines are involved.
Marlene Pacharra   +2 more
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Bringing Neuroscientific Data to Sustainability: Embedded Data Stewardship in CRC 1280

open access: yesBausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement
Information Management (INF) projects are essential to the establishment of infrastructures for the management of research data and metadata in Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Marlene Pacharra   +2 more
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Effects of sex and retention interval on the retrieval and extinction of auditory fear conditioning

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
Fear memory retrieval is relevant to psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of the hallmark symptoms of PTSD is the repeated retrieval and re-experiencing of the initial fear memory even long after the traumatic event ...
Hannah L. Schoenberg   +5 more
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Conservation or politics? Australia's target to kill 2 million cats

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2019
The Australian Government's 5‐year Threatened Species Strategy contains four priority action areas and associated targets. Here, we argue that the well‐publicized target to cull 2 million feral cats has a weak scientific basis because: (1) reliable ...
Tim S. Doherty   +4 more
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Managing the Planet: The Anthropocene, Good Stewardship, and the Empty Promise of a Solution to Ecological Crisis

open access: yesSocieties, 2018
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conceptualization of the current geological epoch and, more significantly, of Humanity’s relation to nature.
Charles Stubblefield
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Germination ecology of three Asteraceae annuals Arctotis hirsuta, Oncosiphon suffruticosum, and Cotula duckittiae in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa: A review

open access: yesOpen Agriculture, 2022
Asteraceae annuals from South Africa’s winter-rainfall region often exhibit poor germination, and it is a challenge to establish a garden display using fresh seeds from the wild.
Oliver Roger Clive   +2 more
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