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Darwin at the edge of the visible universe [PDF]

EMBO reports, 2010
Simon Conway Morris marvels at the perfection of sensory organs: shaped by eons of evolution, they can detect a single photon or an individual molecule. Only scientific instruments are able to reach beyond the limits of nature's detectors.
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The Encultured Primate: Thresholds and Transitions in Hominin Cultural Evolution

Philosophies, 2019
This article tries to shed light on the mystery of human culture. Human beings are the only extant species with cumulative, evolving cultures. Many animal species do have cultural traditions in the form of socially transmitted practices but they ...
Chris Buskes
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Bayesian Methods and Universal Darwinism [PDF]

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2009
Bayesian methods since the time of Laplace have been understood by their practitioners as closely aligned to the scientific method. Indeed a recent Champion of Bayesian methods, E. T. Jaynes, titled his textbook on the subject Probability Theory: the Logic of Science.
John Campbell, Paul M. Goggans, Chun-Yong Chan   +2 more
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The Immortality and Universality of a Setswana Folklore: Setlhotsa le Sefofu (The Blind and The Cripple) [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The taking over of African lands by imperial forces not only took away that substratum upon which all material life depends, but it also usurped the space of the dispossessed to perform their being.
Moagisi Edwin Kagiso Seleka
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley, Bonan Zhao, Tadeg Quillien, Christopher G. Lucas   +3 more
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Universities’ attractiveness to students: The Darwinism effect

Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
AbstractDue to significant government cuts to Higher Education funding in Southern European systems, their already underfunded universities were forced to increasingly compete for students as sources of additional revenue. Concurrently, families and students that continued to afford participation in Higher Education became more selective when choosing ...
Mattia Cattaneo, Hugo Horta, Paolo Malighetti, Michele Meoli, Stefano Paleari   +4 more
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Gut Mycobiota‐Associated Tryptophan Catabolites Protect Against Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Accumulating evidence suggests that the intestinal microbiota participates in the progression of metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) through microbiota‐host interaction. However, the beneficial role of commensal mycobiota in MASLD progression remains poorly understood.
Shuping Qiao, Shuangya Fan, Juan Xu, Zhen Xu, Chen Peng, Junxing Qu, Ziqian Bing, Shizhen Zhou, Sunan Shen, Guifang Xu, Yue Zhao, Tingting Wang   +11 more
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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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