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Animalidad/humanidad: una dicotomía estratégicamente persistente que entorpece el avance científico en arqueología

open access: yesArqueologia, 2013
La dicotomía animalidad-humanidad y otras oposiciones heredadas de la antropología, sirven estratégi-camente en arqueología para mantener el aislamiento paradigmático entre las arqueologías interpretativistas y evolucionistas, mediante una ontología dual
Hernán J. Muscio
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Assessing the evidence for treating developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility as different phenomena

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 11, Page 2949-2961, November 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Phenotypic plasticity has long played a central role in eco‐evolutionary theory, but it was not until 20 years ago that it was proposed that the term encompasses two distinct phenomena—developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility. While this terminology has since
Maria Stager   +3 more
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Perspectivas del estudio de la consciencia: aproximación desde las ciencias de la complejidad y la biología evolutiva

open access: yesEntreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento
Objetivo: presentar los avances y problemas vigentes del estudio de la consciencia con el fin de discutir las ventajas de un programa de investigación centrado en ella, definido por la biología evolutiva y las ciencias de la complejidad.
Sergio Javier Martínez García
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Nuevas perspectivas de la tafonomía evolutiva: tafosistemas y asociaciones conservadas

open access: yesEstudios Geologicos, 1984
Varios conceptos básicos de la Tafonomía evolutiva son tratados en este artículo. Hay una discusión general de los procesos principales que controlan la conservación tafonómica.
S. Fernández López
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Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 654-680, August 2025.
Abstract Electric utilities, challenged by a rapidly unfolding energy transition, use many informal institutions to bridge across technologies and sectors. Little is known, however, about how electric utility systems and other polycentric systems' institutions‐in‐use vary and evolve over time.
Matthew Grimley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic ...
Maria Dornelas   +484 more
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O neolamarckismo de Edward Drinker Cope e a ideia de progresso biológico no processo evolutivo

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
A teoria neolamarckista de Edward Cope operava com um mecanismo alternativo à seleção natural. Acréscimos ou decréscimos dos estágios ontogênicos produziriam características que poderiam ser geradas e integradas ao organismo por meio da herança de ...
Felipe Faria
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La teoría evolutiva, el gradualismo y el eslabón perdido

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2011
En este trabajo se discuten algunos terminos usados dentro de la paleoantropología y teorias evolutivas de la historia natural de hombre, también se proponen algunos ementos de la continuidad que propicio un esquema lineal, continuo y gradual ascendente,
José Luis Vera Cortés
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Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 664-680, March 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In this review, we relate theoretical work on the importance of surprise in cognition to empirical research relevant to surprise in predator–prey interactions. There have been multiple proposals as to how surprise should be defined and quantified in the context of ...
Olivier Penacchio   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crenças religiosas e evolução: um modelo para o diálogo em aula

open access: yesAlexandria, 2018
A teoria evolutiva é defendida como eixo organizador do ensino de biologia, porém há várias dificuldades para tal, incluindo conflitos com determinadas orientações religiosas que realizam uma leitura literal da Bíblia, como o pentecostalismo.
Pedro Pinheiro Teixeira, Ralph Levinson
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