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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"evolutionary perspectives"”.
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Creativity : psychological and evolutionary perspectives
The most commonly cited explanation for the evolutionary emergence of creative ability is sexual selection. This suggests that the ability to produce creative products arose to advertise the qualities of the artist and thereby attract sexual partners. Thus the higher the quality of the product the …
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Evolutionary perspectives on plant responses and sensitivity to environmental change
… change can shed light on the potential evolutionary outcomes and sensitivity of species to future environmental change. These processes are especially relevant to highly diverse, evolutionarily rich, and ecologically vulnerable alpine ecosystems. My PhD aims to narrow the uncertainty …
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Aspects of cognition in human mate selection
Evolutionary perspectives on human mating have provided testable hypotheses regarding what qualities people desire in their mates and why they want them. One study was conducted to replicate previous findings in mate preference using a more sophisticated paired comparison methodology to develop …
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Sociable machines : expressive social exchange between humans and robots
… social development, psychology, ethology, and evolutionary perspectives, this work integrates theories and concepts from these diverse viewpoints to enable Kismet to enter into natural and intuitive social interaction with a human caregiver, reminiscent of parent-infant exchanges. Kismet …
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Streptococcal virulence and the coagulation system.
… virulence from both mechanistic and evolutionary perspectives, where the mechanistic studies focus on interactions with the human coagulation system. We describe interactions between streptococcal surface proteins and components of the intrinsic pathway of coagulation and the …
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Common minds, uncommon thoughts: a philosophical anthropological investigation of uniquely human creative behavior, with an emphasis on artistic ability, religious reflection, and scientific study
… study. By integrating data from diverse domains (evolutionary and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology and archeology, neuroscience) within a philosophical anthropological framework, I have presented a cognitive and evolutionary approach to the question of why humans, but not other …
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Quantifying the functional and evolutionary relationships among sequences, transcription factor binding and gene expression
… and gene expression, from both functional and evolutionary perspectives. At the functional level, we extended thermodynamics-based statistical models of the genetic sequence-to-function relationship to accurately predict gene expression. We incorporated chromatin accessibility and structural …
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Ectogenesis, the Value of Pregnancy, and Gender Inequality
… this with empirical evidence and insights from evolutionary perspectives, advocating for openness to changing forms of parental bonding. I then challenge the assumptions about the strong link between the roots of gender inequality and the moral desirability of ectogenesis. I point out that …
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The evolutionary ecology of methylation-dependent bacterial defense systems
… considerable gaps in our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of MGEs and host defenses. Given the role of MGEs in spreading drug resistance alleles, the current focus on developing bacteriophages as alternative antimicrobials, and the ability for host defenses to interfere with both, it …
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Tracking Disaster Dynamics for Urban Resilience: Human-Mobility and Semantic Perspectives
… In this dissertation, I present four related but evolutionary perspectives to investigate the impact of natural disasters on interactive human-environment systems as well as the dynamic process of resilience, including human mobility, spatial networks, and coupled mobility and sentiment …
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Psychopathy as a Conditional Reproductive Strategy in Boys and Men: An Evolutionary–Developmental Perspective
… antisociality, particularly among boys and men. Evolutionary perspectives have suggested some adaptive benefits (e.g., mating) to expressing PTs, whereas developmental perspectives suggest both genes and environment affect its expression. Bringing evolutionary and developmental perspectives …
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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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AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY
… TRIPS compliance by new institutionalism and co-evolutionary perspectives, by presenting a framework that shows effects of different actors within innovation systems on different trajectory and rates of institutional change. The results indicate that higher composition of local firms result in …