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Valuing Behavioral By‐Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 7, July 2026.
Structural, functional, and evolutionary links between two behavioral by‐products (i.e., stone play and female‐to‐female mounting—FFM) and their putative corresponding behavioral adaptations (i.e., stone tool use and female‐to‐male mounting—FMM) in Balinese long‐tailed macaques and Japanese macaques.
Jean‐Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst, Paul L. Vasey, Michael A. Huffman   +3 more
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Deconstructing Neo-Functionalism In The Quest For a Paradigm Shift In african Integration: Post-Neo-Functionalism and The Prognostication of The Proposed Continental Free Trade area In africa

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2017
Historically, integration in Africa preceded European colonialism and as well predated European integration. But in the scramble for Africa, the continent was partitioned into specific spheres of influence in the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) among the various European powers. This partitioning has continued to haunt Africa many years after colonialism,
Jude C. Okafor, Ernest Toochi Aniche
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The End of the Supranational Dream of the European Union: Toward a More Nationalist and Intergovernmental Union

Alternatif Politika
This article questions and analyses the supranational aspirations of the European Union (EU) over its intergovernmental policies. It addresses first nationalism followed by neo-functionalism, supranationalism, and intergovernmentalism; the dominant ...
Dilara Sülün
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Neo-functional Analysis: Phylogenetical Restrictions on Causal Role Functions

Philosophy of Science, 2007
The most recent resurgence of philosophical attention to the so-called ‘functional talk’ in the sciences can be summarized in terms of the following questions: (Q1) What kind ofrestrictions, and in particular, what kind ofevolutionary restrictionsas well as to what extent, is involved in functional ascriptions?
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Neo Fonksiyonalizmden Yapısalcılığa, Entegrasyon Kuramları Işığında Türkiye-Avrupa Birliği Uyumu

Ankara Avrupa Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2007
Avrupa'da biitiinleşme (entegrasyon); siyasi, ekonomik ve sosyal boyutlar ı yladisiplinler arası yaklaşım gerektiren bir alandır. Küreselleşmenin dinamikleri sonucu,tophımlararası etkileşim, Uluslararası İlişkiler için önemli bir faktör olmuştur.Sosyal ...
Elif Toprak
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When Compromise Becomes Standoff: Joint Implementation and the Case of the European Public Prosecutor's Office

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores endogenous problems of joint implementation in multi‐level systems. Focusing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), we theorize a causal mechanism of conflict deferral, whereby contentious negotiations are resolved through deliberately ambiguous legislation that postpones conflict to the implementation stage ...
Adina Akbik, Ana Bobic, Christian Freudlsperger, Marta Migliorati   +3 more
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Basic theoretical approaches to the sociological definition of cultural codes

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2015
The article is devoted to the definitions of cultural codes introduced by the classics of sociology within their key theoretical concepts. The authors believe that automatic deduction of ‘cultural code’ interpretation from the concept ‘culture’ within ...
Yu I Yakovenko, T L Bagaeva, A Yu Tashchenko   +2 more
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The need for a more ambitious structure of governance to face new challenges within the EU

Frontiers in Political Science
Neo-functionalism, intergovernmentalism and a political economy of national self-interest have characterised a process of European integration that was strongly oriented towards the full realisation of the three freedoms.
Javier Bilbao-Ubillos
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Transcription factor DUO1 generated by neo-functionalization is associated with evolution of sperm differentiation in plants [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2018
AbstractEvolutionary mechanisms underlying innovation of cell types have remained largely unclear. In multicellular eukaryotes, the evolutionary molecular origin of sperm differentiation is unknown in most lineages. Here, we report that in algal ancestors of land plants, changes in the DNA-binding domain of the ancestor of the MYB transcription factor ...
Asuka Higo, Tomokazu Kawashima, Michael Borg, Mingmin Zhao, Irene López-Vidriero, Hidetoshi Sakayama, Sean A. Montgomery, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Dieter Hackenberg, Masaki Shimamura, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Keiko Sakakibara, Yuki Tomita, Taisuke Togawa, Kan Kunimoto, Akihisa Osakabe, Yutaka Suzuki, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Ryuichi Nishihama, Takayuki Kohchi, José M. Franco-Zorrilla, David Twell, Frédéric Berger, Takashi Araki   +24 more
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