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Kin influences on fertility in Thailand: Effects and mechanisms [PDF]
, 2013 It has been suggested that human mothers are cooperative breeders, as they need help from others to successfully raise offspring. Studies working under this framework have found correlations between the presence of kin and both child survival and female ...
Sear, Rebecca, Snopkowski, Kristin
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Micro/Nanorobotics
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Artificial intelligence is transforming micro‐ and nanorobots from externally controlled, task‐specific machines into adaptive, autonomous systems. Machine learning, multimodal perception, digital twins, AI‐guided materials and geometry design enhance propulsion, localization, decision‐making, whichaccelerates clinical and environmental applications ...
Fatma M. Yurtsever +6 more
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Kin Selection and Its Discontents [PDF]
, 2016 Kin selection is a core aspect of social evolution theory, but a small number of critics have recently challenged it. Here I address these criticisms and show that kin selection remains an important explanation for much (though not all) social evolution.
Queller, David C
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All‐Amyloid Functional Coacervates
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This study introduces an all‐amyloid interfacial complex coacervate technique that employs charge‐mediated or functionalization‐assisted complexation of oppositely charged food protein‐derived amyloid nanofibrils to engineer functional soft constructs across multiple length scales.
Seyyed Alireza Hashemi +4 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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Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Phylogenetic analyses strongly associate nonsocial ancestors of cooperatively-breeding or eusocial species with monogamy. Because monogamy creates high-relatedness family groups, kin selection has been concluded to drive the evolution of ...
Nonacs Peter
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A Family of Sodium Solid‐State Electrolytes Based on the NaGaxAl1‐xCl4 Solid Solution
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sodium‐based metal chloride solid electrolytes are promising for sodium solid‐state batteries due to their excellent oxidation stability, which, as shown for Li halides, can coexist with high ionic conductivity. To explore cationic substitution effects, we synthesized NaGaxAl1‐xCl4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) via ball milling and investigated structural and ...
Hao Guo, Matteo Bianchini
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Kin Selection: A Philosophical Analysis [PDF]
, 2013 This PhD dissertation examines the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the most general and most widely used framework for understanding social evolution, W. D. Hamilton's theory of kin selection.
Birch, Jonathan
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Linked selection and the evolution of altruism in family‐structured populations
Ecology and EvolutionMuch research on the evolution of altruism via kin selection, group selection, and reciprocity focuses on the role of a single locus or quantitative trait.
Lia Thomson +3 more
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Female philopatry may influence antipredatory behavior in a solitary mammal [PDF]
PeerJWhether neighboring individuals are related or not has a number of important ecological & evolutionary ramifications. Kin selection resulting from philopatry can play an important role in social and antipredatory behavior.
Alexandra Burnett +5 more
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