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Social bonds and genetic ties: Kinship association and affiliation in a community of bonobos (Pan paniscus) [PDF]
, 1999 Studies of captive populations of bonobos suggest that females are more gregarious than males. This seems to contradict assumed sex-differences in kinship deriving from a speciestypical dispersal pattern of female exogamy and male philopatry.
Fruth, Barbara +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher +8 more
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2021 The paper outlines various concepts of rationality, their characteristics and consequences. In the first, most general part, the metaphysical, instrumental and discursive rationality is distinguished.
Marcin Gorazda
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The evolution of dispersal in a Levins’ type metapopulation model [PDF]
, 2007 We study the evolution of the dispersal rate in a metapopulation model with extinction and colonisation dynamics, akin to the model as originally described by Levins.
Ferriere R. +7 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou +10 more
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Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis
Ecology and EvolutionMetamorphosis, the discrete morphological change between postembryonic life stages, is widespread across the animal kingdom. The suggested advantages of metamorphosis have usually been framed in terms of population benefits, i.e., ecological explanations.
Bing Dong, Andy Gardner
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Understanding Morality in the Religion-and-Science Context [PDF]
, 2012 Recent developments in biotechnology require re/definition of human \"being.\" In this paper, the author suggests that the term \"human being \" is substituted with \"human betweenness.\" This substitution emerges from a philosophical/theological reading
Park, Iljoon
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül +2 more
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The scaling of growth, reproduction and defense in colonies of Amazonian Termites
Sociobiology, 2018 Phenotypes can evolve through life-history tradeoffs. Termites have been the first eusocial insects on Earth, prompting life history evolution at the colony level. Despite this, termite life-history allocation strategies are poorly known.
Pedro A. C. L. Pequeno +1 more
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The Dead Hands of Group Selection and Phenomenology -- A Review of Individuality and Entanglement by Herbert Gintis 357p (2017)(review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 Since Gintis is a senior economist and I have read some of his previous books with interest, I was expecting some more insights into behavior. Sadly, he makes the dead hands of group selection and phenomenology into the centerpieces of his theories of ...
Starks, Michael
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