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Frontiers in Marine ScienceOffspring and kin care are common in nature, while non-kin societies are unusual due to their susceptibility to cheaters. Here, we investigated the kinship of mast-building amphipods, Dyopedos bispinis (Gurjanova, 1930).
Nikolai Yu. Neretin +8 more
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Facial visualizations of women’s voices suggest a cross-modality preference for femininity [PDF]
, 2013 Women with higher-pitched voices and more feminine facial features are commonly judged as being more attractive than are women with lower-pitched voices and less feminine faces, possibly because both features are affected by (age-related) variations in ...
Feinberg, David +2 more
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Bernd and Hilla Becher’s inadvertent human science
Journal of Aesthetics & CultureThis article reverse-engineers Bernd and Hilla Becher’s typologies to show that they out-performed their period’s leading brand of human science—human sociobiology—in objectively representing variation in cultural behavior.
Andrew Moisey
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Evolutionary Ethics: Its Origin and Contemporary Face
Zygon, 1999 The development of modern evolutionary ethics began shortly after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. Early discussions were plagued by several problems.
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Mating system and population genetic structure of the bulldog ant Myrmecia pavida [PDF]
, 2013 Understanding the evolution of the alternative mating strategies of monandry and polyandry is a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology because of the cost-benefit trade-offs associated with mating for females.
Baer, Boris +3 more
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JUMPING TOGETHER: A WAY FROM SOCIOBIOLOGY TO BIO‐SOCIO‐HUMANITIES
Zygon, 2016 Sociobiology is a grand narrative of evolutionary biology on which to build unified knowledge. Consilience is a metaphorical representation of that narrative. I take up the same metaphor but apply it differently.
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Understanding Morality in the Religion-and-Science Context [PDF]
, 2012 Recent developments in biotechnology require re/definition of human \"being.\" In this paper, the author suggests that the term \"human being \" is substituted with \"human betweenness.\" This substitution emerges from a philosophical/theological reading
Park, Iljoon
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, 2011 Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an approach to the study of the mind that is founded on Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. It assumes that our mental abilities, emotions and preferences are adapted specifically for solving problems of ...
Heylighen, Francis
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Zygon, 1984 . Sociobiologists make large claims for their subject. Knowing about the genetic underpinnings of human society will, they claim, enable us to understand all of human behavior and even to solve the ancient philosophical questions of how we ought to live.
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