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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Red Queen hypothesis"”.
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Studies on Holkham salts hole : an isolated salt water community with relict features
… it was part of an estuarine tideway, two hundred and fifty years ago. Studies have been carried out on the hydrology and hydrography of this pond, known locally as the Salts Hole. The nature of the substratum,changes in salinity, temperature and other physical variables have been assessed and …
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Facultative sex in bacteria: Origin, timing and function
… ecological hypotheses for sex. These hypotheses predict that, when sex is facultative, it should be associated with the spore state, because that state is more dormant and more dispersible. I discovered that other microorganisms also violate these predictions: sex is either unassociated with …
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Recognizing 'Game Changers' in Extrapolation Models: An Application to Counterinsurgency
… such that past behavior becomes the best predictor for future action. I argue that aggregated extrapolation models possess two flaws that make it a poor choice for examining insurgencies. First, aggregated extrapolation models ask the wrong question. The more interesting question is to ask …