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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"evolutionary perspective"”.
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Economic behavior from an evolutionary perspective
… This thesis reconciles the two opposing perspectives by applying evolutionary principles to economic behavior and deriving implications that cut across species, physiology, and genetic origins. In the context of a binary-choice model, we first show that risk aversion emerges via natural …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
This thesis assessed whether rape is an adaptive mating strategy. which was naturally selected for in our ancestral past. It investigated a number of constructs. namely: fertility value; victim-offender relationship; socio-economic status; rape proclivity; actual sexual aggression; and sociosexual …
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Examining financial puzzles from an evolutionary perspective
… we examine some puzzles in finance from an evolutionary perspective. We first provide a literature review of evolutionary psychology, and discuss three main findings; the frequentist hypothesis, applications from risk-sensitive optimal foraging theory, and the cheater detection hypothesis. …
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Traditional postpartum care : alloparenting from an evolutionary perspective
… across different human populations using an evolutionary framework. Whereas traditional healthcare may have been geared towards ensuring mother and infant recovery by keeping them from contact with outsiders, postpartum care in modern societies is often relatively neglected. In a discursive …
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Romantic Affairs and Attachment Style: An Evolutionary Perspective
… because this behavior is advantageous from an evolutionary perspective, particularly for individuals with an insecure attachment style. In accordance with Parental Investment Theory (Trivers, 1972), men were more likely than women to desire to get to know and have sexual relations with …
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The Structure-Function Relationship of Prestin: from an Evolutionary Perspective
… with diminished transporter capability. Evolutionary studies combined with comparative genomic and bioinformatic analyses have identified highly conserved sequences among mammalian prestins that show significant variability among nonmammalian vertebrate prestin orthologs and other SLC26A …
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Civil supremacy of the military in Namibia : an evolutionary perspective
… traditions of civil supremacy, namely colonial, revolutionary/insurgent and democratic (as well as the relevant mechanisms and techniques), being the focus. This dissertation seeks to determine how these traditions emerge and develop over time. Basically, civil supremacy rests on a set of ideas, …
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Investigating the Conditional Adaptiveness of Adolescents’ Aggression from an Evolutionary Perspective
Growing evidence supports the evolutionary perspective characterizing aggression as a strategy to achieve proximate adaptive benefits which can indirectly and probabilistically contribute to ultimate evolutionary goals (survival and reproduction). However, aggression may only be adaptive under …
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Genetic variation in fast-evolving East African cichlid fishes: an evolutionary perspective
… a preeminent example of replicated and rapid evolutionary radiation. In this single natural system, numerous morphological (eg. jaw and tooth shape, color patterns, visual sensitivity), behavioral (eg. bower-building) and physiological (eg. development, neural patterning) phenotypes have …
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The evolutionary psychology of information management: gossip, secrecy, and shame in evolutionary perspective
This thesis presents an evolutionary psychological approach to the study of human information management behavior, including gossip, secrecy, and the emotional processes guiding the communication and concealment of personal information. An evolutionary psychological perspective proposes that human …
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Reproductive limitation in coastal ospreys (Pandion haliaetus): an ecological and an evolutionary perspective
Field studies of breeding ospreys were conducted in coastal regions of Massachusetts, New York, and south Florida from 1978-1983 to determine: ( i) the proximate control that local food supply exerts on reproductive performance in these populations; (ii) how food limitation has ultimately shaped …
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An evolutionary perspective on the sequence, mechanism, and regulatory function of animal microRNAs
(cont.) The vertebrate-specific miR-196 family is encoded at three paralogous loci in the mammalian Hox clusters, and has complementarity to messages of several Hox genes, including Hox8 paralogues. RNA fragments diagnostic of miR-196-directed cleavage of Hoxb8 were detected in mouse embryos. Cell …
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Young adults' sexual strategies and mating displays in the virtual world: an evolutionary perspective
… These results demonstrate the power of evolutionary-based theories of sexual interaction to predict sexual strategies and mating displays in online settings. Further, the 'pure' environment of the online platform, without extraneous real-world constraints, provided an opportunity to …
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Knowledge Transfer, Organisational Learning, and the Performance of International Strategic Alliances : A Co-evolutionary Perspective
… alliances. This research thus develops a co-evolutionary view on international strategic alliance performance and empirically investigates the interplay between contextual and processual antecedents of alliance performance. -- By large-scale and cross-sectional survey research on a sample of …
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Towards an evolutionary perspective of bipolar disorders: Is there a genetic link between bipolar disorders and non-pathological (adaptive) hyperactivity?
The new-developed Questionnaire for Adaptive Hyperactivity and Goal Achievement (AHGA), represents an innovative approach to hyperthymic features by embracing a broader concept of spectrum, which conceptualizes as a continuum the potential transition between pathological and adaptive aspects. The …
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Establishing the characteristics of learning-sensitive architectural design using a bespoke digital participatory tool: a study informed by an evolutionary perspective
… concepts from developmental psychology and evolutionary approaches to both education and the perception of the physical environment, this study explored how the design of secondary school buildings affects pupils’ appetites for learning and promotes innovative pedagogical practices. The …
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The economics of climate change and the change of climate in economics: the implications for climate policy of adopting an evolutionary perspective
… the coupling of insights from the framework of evolutionary economics with the perspective of ecological economics provides a promising way forward both theoretically as well as on a more applied basis with respect to a better comprehension of the socioeconomic aspects related to the climate …
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Evolution of genetic and gene regulatory sex differences in mammals
… males and females. In this thesis, I take an evolutionary perspective on this pathway, using computational analysis of both publically available and newly generated data to provide insight into the molecular basis of mammalian sex differences.
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
… campus activities, often co-occurring. An evolutionary perspective illuminates the unique impact of father-daughter relationships on substance use and sexual risk-taking. Female adolescents who experience early physical separation from their fathers or lack relational closeness with him …
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
… campus activities, often co-occurring. An evolutionary perspective illuminates the unique impact of father-daughter relationships on substance use and sexual risk-taking. Female adolescents who experience early physical separation from their fathers or lack relational closeness with him …
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