The major transitions in evolution
Multi-Level Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution
... the evolution of multi-cellularity illustrates how multi- level selection of the MLS2 variety is also relevant to the major transitions (Michod 1997, ...
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The Biological Big Bang model for the major transitions in evolution
... all major evolutionary transitions that show the "explosive" pattern of emergence of new types of biological entities correspond to a boundary between two qualitatively distinct evolutionary ...rapid ...
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Major transitions in human evolution.
... in evolution. Is there a pattern to transitions? Geography and the role of Africa If the overall evidence suggests that hominin evolution includes multiple transitions, the next question to be ...
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The major evolutionary transitions in individuality
... The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary ...to major transitions. How can we explain why major evolutionary transitions have or ...
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Trait heritability in major transitions
... the evolution of ...the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae ...Microbial evolution experiments in the algae Chlorella and Chlamydomonas have shown that predation can drive the ...
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It Takes Two to Evolve Too. The Hypothesis on Three Primary Communication Transitions in Evolution
... major transitions. What could have mediated conflicts arising during the major steps in evolution of multicellular organisms? The key to this transition might have been metabolic signaling as ...
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Family Status Transitions, Latent Health, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Assets
... A careful examination of the HRS data used in this analysis reveals two sources of apparent error. The first is the misreporting of asset ownership. A household may, for example, report owning a home (or some other ...
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Dynamics of tropical African climate and marine sedimentation during major climate transitions
... 118 Secondly, the migration of the ITCZ and the complex lateral displacement of ocean currents may have enhanced upwelling and marine productivity and deposition of organic carbon off equatorial Africa at that time. It ...
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Transitions in human evolution and faunal changes during the Pleistocene in Latium (Central Italy)
... ly modern characters on account of the disap- pearance of the persistent Galerian taxa pres- ent in the Fontana Ranuccio FU (e.g. Ursus deningeri, stenonoid horses, megacerini) and the occurrences of Ursus spelaeus, ...
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Mode transitions in Northern Hemisphere glaciation: co-evolution of millennial and orbital variability in Quaternary climate
... a major change in the stability of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as there is no evidence for a Heinrich event associated with MIS 22, although the event probably correlates with ice-volume changes in Antarctica and ...
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Shifts in space and time: ecological transitions affect the evolution of resting metabolic rates in microteiid lizards
... the evolution of fossoriality and nocturnality in vertebrate ectotherms, where changes in metabolic rates coupled with niche transitions are ...single transitions (fossoriality or nocturnality), ...
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What are the major trends that have characterized the evolution of illicit drug trafficking and
... cratic transitions that emanate from organized and entrenched criminal ...weakness. Transitions from authoritarian to democratic political systems may also engender such institutional deficits even in the ...
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Neolithic transitions: can genetic data help us understand a major demographic event in human prehistory?
... al. [2000] typed more genetic markers (and identified more haplotypes) but for a smaller sample size (n = 1007). 3.3.1.3 Choice of Parental Populations Archaeological, linguistic and genetic studies suggest that the ...
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Freshwater Transitions and the Evolution of Osmoregulation in the Alewife
... the evolution of ion and water balance; yet, we have a limited understanding of the physiological modifications that facilitate this ...the evolution of the osmoregulatory system upon transition to ...
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Evolution of the Major Programming Languages
... Java does not support procedural programming, there is no construct in Java that is called a function or a sub program; methods can only be called through a class or object. C++ sup[r] ...
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Evolution of the Major Programming Languages
... The rest of the U.S. computing community was not so kind to the new language. At first, both IBM and its major scientific user group, SHARE, seemed to embrace ALGOL 58. IBM began an implementation shortly after ...
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The Major Metaphors of Evolution: Visualizing the Extended Synthesis
... No aspect of the Brooks and Wiley proposal created a more negative emotion than the assumption of inherent irreversibility in evolution. This included some decidedly non-progressive phenomena, such as aging and ...
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Compatibility of Major U.S. Christian Denominations with Evolution
... Day Saints [Mormonism]), the numbers are even more obviously in favor of acceptance/compatibility. Beyond these figures, a more interesting and more telling statistic is that, within a denomination, it appears that at ...
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The Evolution of Women in Engineering and Computer Science Major
... Personal attributes: There is a stereotypical image of undergraduate engineering majors as studious and intellectually able but also socially awkward and relatively unskilled at effective teamwork as well as oral and ...
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The Volcanic Evolution of Syrtis Major Planum, Mars
... Syrtis Major Planum, from an identifiable fissure ridge, has this inflationary development and preserves details such as marginal flow lobes and a hummocky textures on its upper surface (Figure ...the major ...
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