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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"behavioral evolution"”.
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Neural Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Behavioral Evolution in Drosophila
… define how males endow 7,11-HD with the opposite behavioral valence to underlie species discrimination. We first show that D. melanogaster and D. simulans males detect 7,11-HD using the homologous peripheral sensory neurons, but this signal is differentially propagated to the P1 neurons that …
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The Molecular Evolution of the Serotonin System in Macaques (MACACA): a Detailed Survey of Four Serotonin-Related Genes
… to behavior, and little is known about its evolution. This is unfortunate, since the serotonin system has great potential to inform our understanding of behavioral evolution. I seek to address this gap in knowledge by investigating the molecular evolution of the serotonin system in macaques …
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Geoarchaeology of the Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik Sites, Dalmatia, Croatia
… The landscape setting of the foraging-to-farming behavioral evolution is missing, even as Neolithic transition research turns to more complex human behavioral ecological models. The Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik sites are open, lowland sites enabling detailed study of the early farming landscape. …
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The individual and collective behavior of social organisms across environments
… conditions, and this diversity can drive behavioral variation. For group-living organisms, this variation is present at both the individual and the collective levels, with individual behavioral phenotypes and interactions among individuals driving collective behavior. However, gaps remain …
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Strain Variation as a Window Into the Neural Logic of Drosophila Mate Choice
… behavior and is subject to genetically specified behavioral diversity within a species. The work presented here showcases the potential power–and the limitations–of strain comparison as a platform for uncovering mechanisms of behavioral evolution and the general principles of circuit function …
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Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene
… pressures associated with hominin biological and behavioral evolution, yet establishing cause-effect relationships between climate, ecology, and human evolution remains problematic. This dissertation seeks to investigate hominin paleoecology in eastern Africa by reconstructing aspects of climate …
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User behavior modeling: Towards solving the duality of interpretability and precision
… social media. The two main challenges for user behavioral modeling are building an in-depth understanding of online user behavior and using advanced computational techniques to capture behavioral uncertainties accurately. This thesis addresses both these challenges by developing interpretable …
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Physiological and behavioral drivers of angling vulnerability in freshwater sportfish
A large body of research has documented evolutionary change in fish populations as a result of selective harvest, a process known as Fisheries-Induced Evolution (FIE). Much of this research has focused on commercially-harvested marine populations, though recent work has also shown that FIE can also …