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Energy Homeostasis in Monotremes
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017 In 1803, the French anatomist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire decided that the newly described echidna and platypus should be placed in a separate order, the monotremes, intermediate between reptiles and mammals.
Stewart C. Nicol
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Wood consumption by Geoffroyi's spider monkeys and its role in mineral supplementation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Wood consumption is a rare behavior in frugivorous primates; however, it can be necessary for nutritional balancing as it may provide macro and/or micronutrients that are scarce in the most frequently eaten items (fruits).
Oscar M Chaves +3 more
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What Is It Like To Become a Bat? Heterogeneities in an Age of Extinction [PDF]
, 2018 In his celebrated 1974 essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” Thomas Nagel stages a human-bat encounter to illustrate and support his claim that “subjective experience” is irreducible to “objective fact”: because Nagel cannot experience the world as a bat
Erev, Stephanie Rhea
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Global Change Biology, 2021 Globally, urban expansion and climate change interact to threaten stream ecosystems and are accelerating the loss of aquatic biodiversity. Waterway managers urgently need tools to understand the potential combined impacts of urbanization and climate ...
R. Coleman +7 more
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How to Evaluate Creativity in Infancy. A New Method for 3/4 Year-Old Children
Proceedings, 2017 Our paper presents the preliminary results of a study aimed at building a new creativity assessment tool, suitable also for younger children (3/4 years old), who do not master enough language and design to respond to the classical tests used to evaluate ...
Paola Molina, Benedetta Frezzotti
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Echidna venom gland transcriptome provides insights into the evolution of monotreme venom. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Monotremes (echidna and platypus) are egg-laying mammals. One of their most unique characteristic is that males have venom/crural glands that are seasonally active.
Emily S W Wong +3 more
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Proceedings, 2017 The ever-increasing presence in Italian school of Italian L2 children is an established reality. Language learning is a priority: it is the gateway to all school subjects and “social life” in the new country.
Benedetta Frezzotti, Giulia Natale
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Avoiding Pandemic Fears in the Subway and Conquering the Platypus. [PDF]
, 2016 Metagenomics is increasingly used not just to show patterns of microbial diversity but also as a culture-independent method to detect individual organisms of intense clinical, epidemiological, conservation, forensic, or regulatory interest.
Gonzalez, A +5 more
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Pluto and the Platypus: An Odd Ball and an Odd Duck — On Classificatory Norms [PDF]
, 2017 Some astronomers believe that we have discovered that Pluto is not a planet. I contest this assessment. Recent discoveries of trans-Neptunian Pluto-sized objects do not require that we exclude Pluto from the planets.
Slater, Matthew H.
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Induction and Natural Kinds Revisited [PDF]
, 2021 In ‘Induction and Natural Kinds’, I proposed a solution to the problem of induction according to which our use of inductive inference is reliable because it is grounded in the natural kind structure of the world. When we infer that unobserved members of
Sankey, Howard
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