Through the series of self-improvement books by Samuel Smiles and other normative texts that circulated between the middle and upper classes of São Paulo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we analyze the spread of a social discourse promoting ...
Pedro Beresin Schleder Ferreira
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The promoter regions of intellectual disability-associated genes are uniquely enriched in LTR sequences of the MEr41 primate-specific endogenous retrovirus: An evolutionary connection between immunity and cognition [PDF]
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00321/full#supplementary-materialSocial behavior and neuronal connectivity in rodents have been shown to be shaped by the ...
Benítez Burraco, Antonio +2 more
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Confession and political normativity: control of subjectivity and production of the subject [PDF]
The theme of confession, present in the reflection of Michel Foucault since the early 1960s, pursued the same direction of his researches from the late 1970s concerning the problem of government and the studies of governmentality. Under this perspective,
Avelino, Nildo
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Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; The Natural and Cultural Nature of Human Cooperation [PDF]
Debates about the role of natural and cultural selection in the development of prosocial, antisocial and socially neutral mechanisms and behavior raise questions that touch property rights, cooperation, and conflict. For example, some researchers suggest
Bowles S. +18 more
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You Can’t Smell Roses Online: Intruding Media and Reverse Domestication
There is an emerging range of self-help guides advising users on how to minimise their interaction with media. The aim is to create a lifestyle and identity that is less media-centred and more grounded in “real life”.
Karlsen Faltin, Syvertsen Trine
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De Novo Domestication Concept for Potato Germplasm Enhancement
Wild potato germplasm serves as a natural pool of agronomically valuable traits for potato breeding, such as resistance to pathogens and abiotic stresses, quality, and consumer-oriented traits.
Anastasiya A. Egorova +4 more
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The Natufian Culture and the Origin of the Neolithic in the Levant [PDF]
Anthropolog
Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Valla, F.
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Abstract We propose a hierarchical energy management scheme for aggregating Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) for grid flexibility services. To prevent a direct participation of numerous prosumers in the wholesale electricity market, aggregators, as self‐interest agents in our scheme, incentivize prosumers to provide flexibility. We firstly model the
Xiupeng Chen +3 more
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New perspectives on evolutionary medicine: the relevance of microevolution for human health and disease [PDF]
Evolutionary medicine (EM) is a growing field focusing on the evolutionary basis of human diseases and their changes through time. To date, the majority of EM studies have used pure theories of hominin macroevolution to explain the present-day state of ...
A Saniotis +72 more
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Schizophrenia and Human Self-Domestication: An Evolutionary Linguistics Approach [PDF]
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder that entails social and cognitive deficits, including marked language problems. Its complex multifactorial etiopathogenesis, including genetic and environmental factors, is still widely uncertain.
A. Benítez-Burraco +3 more
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