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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"human evolution"”.
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Embodied cognition in robots and human evolution
… investigates the notion of embodied cognition in humans using the research of former University of Washington researcher William Calvin and robots using the research of former MIT professor Rodney Brooks. The idea is that the feedback from the physicality of humans is a precognition to our …
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Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion on Human Evolution
<p>The theory of evolution has long generated controversy in American society, but Americans’ attitudes about human evolution are often neglected in studies of “culture wars” and the nature of mass belief systems more generally (Berkman and Plutzer 2010; Freeland and Houston 2009). Gallup and other …
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Haplotype-Based Approaches For The Study Of Human Evolution
… related to the genetic processes of recent evolution in human populations. Tying these two projects together is a reliance on haplotype-based methods, which leverage patterns of linkage across genetic variants, to better understand the evolutionary forces at play across the genome. The first …
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Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene
… 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 and ecology …
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Genetic dating and pattern of admixture in modern human evolution
… is shaped by admixture between populations in an evolutionary process. The mixture dynamic between groups of populations results in a mosaic of chromosomal segments inherited from multiple ancestral populations. The distribution of ancestral chromosomal segments and the recombination breakpoints …
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Mapping the relationship between morphology and function of the shoulder: implications for human evolution and musculoskeletal injury
… in upper limb behaviour. Over millions of years, humans have evolved unique shoulders that allow us to execute tasks with speed, dexterity, and power. Today, the human shoulder is highly variable and specific shape features are correlated with rotator cuff injury. This suggests that variation in …
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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
… to a starch-rich diet was an important driver in human evolution and supported the energetic requirements to sustain brain development throughout hominin evolution. Plants that possess underground storage organs (geophytes) have been put forward as the likely source of starch. Geophytes comprise a …
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Academic Factors that Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance of Evolution
… disagreement in the United States about with how evolution education should be dealt, as the acceptance of evolution is controversial among the general public of the United States. Furthermore, although a plethora of research has been conducted to understand which factors influence the …
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Advancing Health and non-Health Security, Diplomacy and International Relations through the Enlightened Design and Delivery of Smart Global Health Programs
… approaches are the hallmark of enlightened human evolution.
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Using a mouse model to understand the effect of hybridization on skeletal and pelage trait variation in mammalian hybrids
… is thought to have played an important role in human evolution, with hybridizing groups having significant differences in soft tissue trait variation. Ectodermal trait variation is of interest because primate hybrids show increased atypical non-metric dental and cranial trait variation thought …
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Uranium-Lead dating of hominid fossil sites in South Africa
… fossils in the twentieth century have brought human evolution into the scientific spotlight. It is important that ages are assigned to such hominids so that their place in human evolution can be established. South African hominids are found in cave sites that are complex in terms of their …
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Testing Revonsuo's Threat simulation theory of dreaming
… asserts that dreaming was selected during human evolution because it has the adaptive function of providing a threat-free context in which threat perception and avoidance can be rehearsed. This study aimed to test the prediction that the threat simulation mechanism will activate differently …
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Investigating how the morphology of a robot arm affects the learnability of aimed throwing
… task because of its importance as a milestone in human evolution, as well as being a task with an unambiguous outcome. The process of designing and building the arm, in addition to the full experimental setup, is described. By varying two different hand designs, the error rate and repeatability …
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Comparative Digital Examination of the Talocrural (ankle) Joint Provides Insight into Human bipedal locomotion
Locomotion strategies across human evolution are a prominent topic of discussion. The talocrural joint, a major weight-bearing ankle joint, is a feature of this discussion since all animals, including humans and our ancestors, have different functional requirements depending on locomotor modality. …
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Genomic variety estimation with Bayesian nonparametric hierarchies
… effect of rare genetic variants in biological human evolution as well as their impact in the developement of rare diseases. To do so, it is imperative to develop a statistical framework to assess what fraction of the overall variation present in human genome is not yet captured by available …
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A comparison of statistical and geometric reconstruction techniques : guidelines for correcting fossil hominin crania
The study of human evolution centres, to a large extent, around the study of fossil morphology, including the comparison and interpretation of these remains within the context of what is known about morphological variation within living species. However, many fossils suffer from environmentally …
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Reconstructing Soft Tissues of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids using Comparative Anatomy of Modern Humans & Great Apes
… and variations among archaic hominids and modern humans. These models, which are often produced three-dimensionally, also help to guide public attention towards biological anthropology and to disseminate scientific facts about human evolution. Unfortunately, sufficient attention has not been paid …
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Truckin' : the genetic algorithm way
… using the same theories developed to explain human evolution, called the Genetic Algorithm. The algorithm is based on the premise that, when individuals exist in a competitive environment where resources are limited, only the fittest individuals will survive. This thesis attempts to use …
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Earthly Matters of Cosmic Awareness: A 2023 Thesis of Architecture
… play a pivotal part in catalyzing the ongoing human evolution towards enhanced health and resilience, both as individuals and as a species.
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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… that influence a person's acceptance of evolution. Variables generally fit into categories of school/knowlege-based understanding and cultural influences. This study investigated those variables that influence students' degreee of acceptance of evolution and determined the relative …
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