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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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The celebration of Allan Kaufman's 80th birthday was an occasion to reflect on a career that has stimulated the mutual exchange of ideas (or memes in the terminology of Richard Dawkins) between many researchers.
Boozer +8 more
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The cardiac pacemakers: A paradigm of robustness in evolutionary biology
Abstract figure legend Functional networks in living systems are formed by many thousands of gene products. In association with those networks, several genes (four in this diagram) may be sufficient, each on its own, to ensure that the function occurs. Any one of these may be removed or blocked while leaving the others to continue functioning.
Denis Noble
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Die kennisvraagstuk in wetenskap en geloof
This article deals with the question of whether the kind of knowledge claims made in confessions of faith are reconcilable with the knowledge claims of the modern experimental sciences.
Anton van Niekerk
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A lightening rod for controversy, Richard Dawkins has made a career out of comparing himself to Charles Darwin, author of the theory of natural selection. This paper discusses the truth of these claims.
Holt, Erin
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Genes in the postgenomic era [PDF]
We outline three very different concepts of the gene - 'instrumental', 'nominal', and 'postgenomic'. The instrumental gene has a critical role in the construction and interpretation of experiments in which the relationship between genotype and phenotype ...
B. Alberts +38 more
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Review of the uncertainty sampling and its propagation across the flood risk modeling chain. ABSTRACT This systematic review examines how uncertainty is sampled and propagated through interconnected model chains in climate‐induced flood risk assessments.
Villy Mik‐Meyer +4 more
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Evolución endógena y gradual [PDF]
Reseña del libro "Escalando el monte improbable", de Richard Dawkins, obra en la que repunta la evolución de una tesis contenida en una obra clásica de la ciencia y la divulgación científica: "El gen egoísta", del mismo autor.
Coz-Hernández, José J. +1 more
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Towards an analytical framework of science communication models [PDF]
This chapter reviews the discussion in science communication circles of models for public communication of science and technology (PCST). It questions the claim that there has been a large-scale shift from a ‘deficit model’ of communication to a ...
A Giddens +33 more
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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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