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Sexual dichromatism increases with altitude in birds with ultraviolet sensitive vision
Journal of Zoology, Volume 326, Issue 1, Page 77-88, May 2025.Previous work has shown a significant relationship between sexual dichromatism and altitude in birds, however, this work was focused on either a small subset of avian diversity or used human scoring to assess sexual dichromatism. In this study, we compared human scoring and spectrophotometry scoring to study this relationship and found no significant ...
D. A. Villar +2 more
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 O artigo procura analisar a noção de intencionalidade segundo a teoria de Umwelt de Jakob von Uexküll. Seguindo também o naturalismo biológico de John Searle, o objetivo é explicitar o significado filosófico da noção de Umwelt e mostrar que ela pode ...
Arthur Araújo
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Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 128-144, April 2025.Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
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Ecological grief as a crisis in dwelling
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 233-248, March 2025.Abstract In the current context of widespread environmental collapse, ecological grief—the sense of loss that arises from experiencing environmental destruction—has become a burgeoning topic of inquiry across psychology, geography, and anthropology.
Pablo Fernandez Velasco
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 1, January/February 2025.The climate change–violent conflict interaction creates a cycle that is negatively reinforcing. Peacebuilding and climate change adaptation intend to reduce violent conflict and climate change vulnerabilities (–). However, they are not typically built to withstand the cumulative and interactive impacts of violent conflict and climate change and can ...
Luisa Fernanda Bedoya Taborda +2 more
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Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism
Sign Systems Studies, 2004 Jakob von Uexküll’s evolutionary views are described and analysed in the context of changes in semiotic and biological thinking at the end of Modern age.
Kalevi Kull
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 441-467, December 2024.Abstract Using a securitization lens, this article explores the climate adaptation discourse and its impact on the making and implementation of adaptation strategies in Sweden. The main goal is to discern whether climate change is understood and addressed as a security issue within Swedish climate adaptation policy, examining its practical implications
Karina Barquet +2 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 491-517, December 2024.Abstract This study explores the manifestations of riskification in climate change adaptation (CCA) across four European cities, examining the roles of actors, discourses, and tools. Through comparative analysis, it aims to delineate local riskification, identifying similarities and differences among the cases.
Karina Barquet +8 more
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Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference [PDF]
, 2022 Filip Jaroš, Carlo Brentari
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Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1062-1084, December 2024.Abstract This article articulates recent advances in palaeo‐ecology with the goals and ambitions of multispecies archaeology. It centres the synanthropic nexus as a key context for the study of early human‐animal relationships and argues that its evolution yields important yet currently overlooked dynamics shaping the structure of the archaeological ...
Shumon T. Hussain
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