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“The Notion of Neutrality in Clinical Ethics Consultation”

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2018
Clinical ethics consultation (CEC), as an activity that may be provided by clinical ethics committees and consultants, is nowadays a well-established practice in North America.
Alessandra Gasparetto, Ralf J. Jox, Mario Picozzi   +2 more
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Karl Marx: A Life between History and Theory

Montesquieu.it, 2019
The purpose of this review is to highlight the main features of the book "Karl Marx. Biografia intellettuale e politica. 1857-1883" written by Marcello Musto.
Riccardo Bonfiglioli
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Macronutrient intake and simulated infection threat independently affect life history traits of male decorated crickets

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Nutritional geometry has advanced our understanding of how macronutrients (e.g., proteins and carbohydrates) influence the expression of life history traits and their corresponding trade‐offs.
Kristin R. Duffield, Kylie J. Hampton, Thomas M. Houslay, James Rapkin, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk   +6 more
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Coalescence 2.0: a multiple branching of recent theoretical developments and their applications [PDF]

, 2014
Population genetics theory has laid the foundations for genomics analyses including the recent burst in genome scans for selection and statistical inference of past demographic events in many prokaryote, animal and plant species.
Lemaire, Christophe, Tellier, Aurelien
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Productivity loss associated with functional disability in a contemporary small-scale subsistence population

eLife, 2020
In comparative cross-species perspective, humans experience unique physical impairments with potentially large consequences. Quantifying the burden of impairment in subsistence populations is critical for understanding selection pressures underlying ...
Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L Hooper, Benjamin C Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, Michael D Gurven   +4 more
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Evolution of male life histories and age-dependent sexual signals under female choice [PDF]

PeerJ, 2013
Sexual selection theory models evolution of sexual signals and preferences using simple life histories. However, life-history models predict that males benefit from increasing sexual investment approaching old age, producing age-dependent sexual traits ...
Joel J. Adamson
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Evo-devo of human adolescence: beyond disease models of early puberty [PDF]

, 2013
Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, much variation remains to be explained, leaving room for the influence of environmental factors to adjust its phenotypic trajectory in the service of fitness goals.
A Templeton, AB Arquitt, AB Migliano, AK Pesonen, AS Parent, B Bogin, B Campbell, BH Smith, BJ Ellis, BJ Ellis, BJ Ellis, BJ Ellis, BS Zemel, C Ankarberg Lindgren, C Cooper, C Tardieu, CC Chen, CL Sisk, F Deng, GB Cutler Jr, GB Muller, GE Weisfeld, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Belsky, J Bowlby, J Bowlby, J James, J Tinggaard, Jay Belsky, JC Wingfield, JL Locke, JM Tither, KB Simondon, KK Ong, KK Ong, KO Klein, L Aksglaede, LA Proos, M Celio, M Del Giudice, M Krstevska-Konstantinova, M Mead, M Suzuki, ME Pembrey, MR Palmert, N Howell, NM Cameron, PD Gluckman, PD Kroboth, PJ Hunt, RG Westendorp, S White, SB Manuck, SC Stearns, W Arlt, W Copeland, WT Boyce, Z Hochberg, Z Hochberg, Z Hochberg, Z Hochberg, Z Hochberg, Ze'ev Hochberg   +69 more
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The Theory of Life History and Criminal Behavior

Polish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2017
The aim of the present article is to show the violent crime phenomenon from a life history theory perspective, which is drawn on evolutionary biology but more and more often is being employed in the area of psychology.
Monika Kwiek, Stefan Florek, Przemysław Piotrowski   +2 more
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Earlier sexual debut predicts higher (not lower) levels of father care measured across 12 weeks: an experience sampling study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Across the lifespan, males negotiate the tradeoff between current and future reproduction. From a life history theory (LHT) perspective, resources invested into earlier reproduction pose a cost to later reproduction.
Randy Corpuz, Daria A. Kotov, Rylei L. Donovan   +2 more
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Galileo Galilei: Science vs. faith [PDF]

, 2017
Galileo Galilei (1564\u20131642), professor of mathematics at the University of Padua from 1592 to 1610, was a pillar in the history of our University and a symbol of freedom for research and teaching, well stated in the university motto \u2018 ...
Basso, Cristina, Thiene, Gaetano, Zampieri, Fabio, Zanatta, Alberto   +3 more
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