WIREs Cognitive Science, 2015 Natural selection has favored the evolution of behaviors that benefit not only one's genes, but also their copies in genetically related individuals. These behaviors include optimal outbreeding (choosing a mate that is neither too closely related, nor ...
Boklage CE +9 more
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Nepotistic patterns of violent psychopathy: evidence for adaptation? [PDF]
, 2012 Psychopaths routinely disregard social norms by engaging in selfish, antisocial, often violent behavior. Commonly characterized as mentally disordered, recent evidence suggests that psychopaths are executing a well-functioning, if unscrupulous strategy ...
Craig eSheriff +7 more
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Identifying systems barriers that may prevent bereavement service access to bereaved carers: A report from an Australian specialist palliative care service [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Bereavement follow up is an integral element of palliative care. However, little is known about the systems that link bereavement services with bereaved carers.
Currow, David +4 more
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The Enigmatic Canal-Associated Neurons Regulate Caenorhabditis elegans Larval Development Through a cAMP Signaling Pathway. [PDF]
, 2019 Caenorhabditis elegans larval development requires the function of the two Canal-Associated Neurons (CANs): killing the CANs by laser microsurgery or disrupting their development by mutating the gene ceh-10 results in early larval arrest. How these cells
Chien, Jason +5 more
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The Pig Story (Tiboi Sakkoko) Storytelling of Kinship, Memories of the Past, and Rights to Plots of Ancestral Land in Mentawai [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines some significant elements of the pig story (tiboi sakkoko). This tale contains crucial information about the collective identity, ancestors and historical events affecting particular Mentawai kin-groups.
Tulius, J. (Juniator)
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The multi-phase winds of Markarian 231: from the hot, nuclear, ultra-fast wind to the galaxy-scale, molecular outflow [PDF]
, 2015 We present the best sensitivity and angular resolution maps of the molecular disk and outflow of Mrk 231, as traced by CO observations obtained with IRAM/PdBI, and we analyze archival Chandra and NuSTAR observations.
Bongiorno, A. +11 more
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Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 2023 Abstract ‘Kinning and De-kinning’ introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and inheritance in kinship studies, with a focus on processes of ‘passing on’ and the materiality of things as well as bodies.
Simone Abram, Marianne Elisabeth Lien
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Electrostatic trapping and in situ detection of Rydberg atoms above chip-based transmission lines [PDF]
, 2016 Beams of helium atoms in Rydberg-Stark states with principal quantum number $n=48$ and electric dipole moments of 4600~D have been decelerated from a mean initial longitudinal speed of 2000~m/s to zero velocity in the laboratory-fixed frame-of-reference ...
Hogan, S. D., Lancuba, P.
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Plants, 2023 In the natural environment, plants grow and interact with both conspecific and heterospecific neighbours under different environmental conditions. In this study, we tested whether Chenopodium quinoa Willd genotypes differ in growth performance when grown with kin and non-kin under nutrient limitation in pot partitioning treatments. Biomass accumulation,
Jan Sher +5 more
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Does the kin orientation of a British woman�s social network influence her entry into motherhood? [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND The influence of family and friends on an individual's fertility has long been an important topic within demography. Researchers who focus on social network effects and evolutionary demography have shown a renewed interest in this issue in ...
Mathews, Paul, Sear, Rebecca
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