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Kinship, lineage identity, and an evolutionary perspective on the structure of cooperative big game hunting groups in Indonesia. [PDF]

, 2002
Work was conducted among traditional, subsistence whale hunters in Lamalera, Indonesia in order to test if kinship or lineage membership is more important for explaining the organization of cooperative hunting parties ranging in size from 8-14 men.
Alvard, Dr. Michael
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Orangutans and chimpanzees show evidence of inferring when a hidden breadstick is intact or broken

Scientific Reports
Evidence suggesting non-human primates infer the hidden functional properties of tools is equivocal, possibly because subjects had to reason about two factors: the tools’ functional properties and the out-of-reach reward.
Michèle N. Schubiger, Claudia Fichtel, Nicholas J. Mulcahy   +2 more
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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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Social Information in the Stingless Bee, Trigona corvina Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae): The Use of Visual and Olfactory Cues at the Food Site

Sociobiology, 2014
For social insects, colony performance is largely dependent on the quantity and quality of food intake and thus on the efficiency of its foragers. In addition to innate preferences and previous experience, foragers can use social information to decide ...
Frank Max Joseph Sommerlandt, Werner Huber, Johannes Spaethe   +2 more
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Family estates or dormitories: analyzing the kinship of Dyopedos bispinis “collective” mast populations (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dulichiidae)

Frontiers in Marine Science
Offspring 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, Aleksandra V. Bezmenova, Margarita A. Ezhova, Glafira D. Kolbasova, Taisia I. Petrushkova, Alexander B. Tzetlin, Alexander B. Tzetlin, Dmitry A. Knorre, Tatiana V. Neretina   +8 more
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Balancing synthesis with pluralism in sociobiology [PDF]

, 2006
Kevin R. Foster
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Bernd and Hilla Becher’s inadvertent human science

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
This 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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Extended Inclusive Fitness Theory bridges Economics and Biology through a common understanding of Social Synergy

, 2015
Inclusive Fitness Theory (IFT) was proposed half a century ago by W.D. Hamilton to explain the emergence and maintenance of cooperation between individuals that allows the existence of society. Contemporary evolutionary ecology identified several factors
Jaffe, Klaus
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How does the novel insecticide flupyradifurone affect honeybee longevity and behavior?

Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2020
Schreiner, Ricarda, Schuhmann, Antonia, Hesselbach, Hannah   +2 more
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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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