Chapter 1. Introduction After culture: anthropology as radical
... considering how culture is used just in one setting: broadcasts on Balinese television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated u ...
... considering how culture is used just in one setting: broadcasts on Balinese television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated u ...
Rare and common variants: twenty arguments
... to be deleterious. It does not need to follow from the observations above that the reduction in fitness is due to promotion of chronic disease or that all rare nonsynonymous variants are deleterious. However, these findings are consistent with the theory that selection keeps fitness-reducing alleles ...
... to be deleterious. It does not need to follow from the observations above that the reduction in fitness is due to promotion of chronic disease or that all rare nonsynonymous variants are deleterious. However, these findings are consistent with the theory that selection keeps fitness-reducing alleles ...
Advanced Techniques for Solving Optimization Problems through
... unexpected alteration of a trait. Competition and selection are the inevitable strive for survival caused by an environment with limited resources. The evolution process is a mechanism that progresses as a sequence of step, some mostly deterministic and some mostly random [71]. Such an idea of rando ...
... unexpected alteration of a trait. Competition and selection are the inevitable strive for survival caused by an environment with limited resources. The evolution process is a mechanism that progresses as a sequence of step, some mostly deterministic and some mostly random [71]. Such an idea of rando ...
The Influence of Learning on Evolution
... that occurs on the genotype level from one generation to the next. Learning is a fast process that occurs on the phenotype level within the lifetime of an individual. Both processes interact in many ways. The most direct interaction, the genetic fixation of learned phenotypic characteristics is not ...
... that occurs on the genotype level from one generation to the next. Learning is a fast process that occurs on the phenotype level within the lifetime of an individual. Both processes interact in many ways. The most direct interaction, the genetic fixation of learned phenotypic characteristics is not ...
Goings on in Mendel`s Garden
... needs, and science from potentially more productive research directions that might develop a better understanding of the nature of complex traits, and how they evolve. That would lead us to view genes not as peas deeply embedded under every princess, but as temporary combinations of alleles in genom ...
... needs, and science from potentially more productive research directions that might develop a better understanding of the nature of complex traits, and how they evolve. That would lead us to view genes not as peas deeply embedded under every princess, but as temporary combinations of alleles in genom ...
A Computational Model of Symbiotic Composition in
... system of interdependent variables that have a hierarchically clustered structure. This interdependency structure produces a fractal fitness landscape exhibiting significant ruggedness at all scales. The purpose of using this landscape for our experiments is not to suggest that all adaptive problems ...
... system of interdependent variables that have a hierarchically clustered structure. This interdependency structure produces a fractal fitness landscape exhibiting significant ruggedness at all scales. The purpose of using this landscape for our experiments is not to suggest that all adaptive problems ...
quantitative genetics - E-Learning/An
... seeds. The alleles that govern these traits affect the phenotype in a qualitative way. In analyzing crosses involving these types of traits, each offspring can be put into a particular phenotypic category. Such attributes are called discontinuous traits. In contrast, quantitative traits show a conti ...
... seeds. The alleles that govern these traits affect the phenotype in a qualitative way. In analyzing crosses involving these types of traits, each offspring can be put into a particular phenotypic category. Such attributes are called discontinuous traits. In contrast, quantitative traits show a conti ...
1999 paper
... (self-adaptation). Angeline's framework considers an EA as a whole, without dividing attention to its di erent components (e.g., mutation, recombination, selection, etc). The classication proposed by Hinterding, Michalewicz, and Eiben 65] extends that of 2] by considering an additional level of a ...
... (self-adaptation). Angeline's framework considers an EA as a whole, without dividing attention to its di erent components (e.g., mutation, recombination, selection, etc). The classication proposed by Hinterding, Michalewicz, and Eiben 65] extends that of 2] by considering an additional level of a ...
5. Sample Size, Power & Thresholds
... Unger & Orci FASEB J. (2001) 15,312NCSU QTL II: Yandell © 2005 ...
... Unger & Orci FASEB J. (2001) 15,312NCSU QTL II: Yandell © 2005 ...
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... Attribute/Distribution: NS ANTH 155 (HMS 155) Medical Anthropology 4 Credits Medical Anthropology is the study of how conceptions of health, illness, and healing methods vary over time and across cultures. Students will learn how social and cultural factors shape health outcomes in a variety of huma ...
... Attribute/Distribution: NS ANTH 155 (HMS 155) Medical Anthropology 4 Credits Medical Anthropology is the study of how conceptions of health, illness, and healing methods vary over time and across cultures. Students will learn how social and cultural factors shape health outcomes in a variety of huma ...
Speciation: more likely through a genetic or through a learned
... Recently, theoretical studies have shown that speciation through a learned habitat preference is extremely effective (Beltman et al. 2004; Beltman & Haccou 2005). In these previous theoretical analyses it was assumed that the learning of habitat features was already present from the onset of speciat ...
... Recently, theoretical studies have shown that speciation through a learned habitat preference is extremely effective (Beltman et al. 2004; Beltman & Haccou 2005). In these previous theoretical analyses it was assumed that the learning of habitat features was already present from the onset of speciat ...
Genetic Research and Testing in Sport and Exercise Science
... One specific aspect of genetic research in the sport and exercise sciences that is potentially problematic is the investigation of differences between human populations. Some sport and exercise scientists are fascinated by the remarkable success of East African endurance athletes and of sprinters of ...
... One specific aspect of genetic research in the sport and exercise sciences that is potentially problematic is the investigation of differences between human populations. Some sport and exercise scientists are fascinated by the remarkable success of East African endurance athletes and of sprinters of ...
Bringing schizophrenia into the Darwinian fold
... magnetic resonance imaging studies have indicated a resapiens pay for the acquisition of language, that is, ‘lanversal of the typical left greater than right asymmetry in guage and psychosis have a common evolutionary origin’,41 the PT, or a volume reduction in the left PT.55 However, it with langua ...
... magnetic resonance imaging studies have indicated a resapiens pay for the acquisition of language, that is, ‘lanversal of the typical left greater than right asymmetry in guage and psychosis have a common evolutionary origin’,41 the PT, or a volume reduction in the left PT.55 However, it with langua ...
Tibetan and Andean Patterns of Adaptation to High
... ling for environmental influences can reveal the influence of unknown genes. A shortcoming of this approach is the implicit assumption of genetic homogeneity at relevant loci in both samples and the explicit assumption that environmental sources of variation are known and uniform. Actually, many lo ...
... ling for environmental influences can reveal the influence of unknown genes. A shortcoming of this approach is the implicit assumption of genetic homogeneity at relevant loci in both samples and the explicit assumption that environmental sources of variation are known and uniform. Actually, many lo ...
1 The Empirical Non-Equivalence of Genic and Genotypic Models of
... generations. The general method to be used would be one of comparing the likelihoods of the two hypotheses (selection occurring vs. no selection) given the observed data. No data set would be absolutely incompatible with either hypothesis, but many data sets would allow us to confidently pick one hy ...
... generations. The general method to be used would be one of comparing the likelihoods of the two hypotheses (selection occurring vs. no selection) given the observed data. No data set would be absolutely incompatible with either hypothesis, but many data sets would allow us to confidently pick one hy ...
ANTH - Webster University
... what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more ethno-graphic work has been produced that gives us a firm foundation for investigating cross-cultural methods of being masculine, of being a man. By careful examination of these ethnographies, we will seek to understand the forces and ...
... what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more ethno-graphic work has been produced that gives us a firm foundation for investigating cross-cultural methods of being masculine, of being a man. By careful examination of these ethnographies, we will seek to understand the forces and ...
Are you your grandmother`s favorite
... The MGM has two X-chromosomes, and so any given X-linked gene of hers has a 50 per cent chance of being transmitted to her daughter. Her daughter has one X from the MGM and one X from the maternal grandfather (‘MGF’). She will pass down one of those two X chromosomes to each child, regardless of whe ...
... The MGM has two X-chromosomes, and so any given X-linked gene of hers has a 50 per cent chance of being transmitted to her daughter. Her daughter has one X from the MGM and one X from the maternal grandfather (‘MGF’). She will pass down one of those two X chromosomes to each child, regardless of whe ...
Genetic divergence and the genetic architecture of complex traits in
... crosses and natural populations, rather than idiosyncrasies of particular traits, strains or species. Although our study provided new insights about complex traits, many important questions remain, such as the extent to which the close genetic similarity between the progenitor strains affected the r ...
... crosses and natural populations, rather than idiosyncrasies of particular traits, strains or species. Although our study provided new insights about complex traits, many important questions remain, such as the extent to which the close genetic similarity between the progenitor strains affected the r ...
Dominance and Its Evolution
... the prime weakness in the presence-absence hypothesis was not necessarily its incomplete representation of the underlying mechanisms; all mechanistic representations of genotype-phenotype relations are at some level incomplete. By the standards of today, the presence-absence hypothesis is more a log ...
... the prime weakness in the presence-absence hypothesis was not necessarily its incomplete representation of the underlying mechanisms; all mechanistic representations of genotype-phenotype relations are at some level incomplete. By the standards of today, the presence-absence hypothesis is more a log ...
Life History Shapes Trait Heredity by Accumulation of
... A fundamental question in biology is whether variation in organisms primarily emerges as a function of adaptation or as a function of neutral genetic drift. Trait variation in the model organism baker’s yeast follows population bottlenecks rather than environmental boundaries suggesting that it prim ...
... A fundamental question in biology is whether variation in organisms primarily emerges as a function of adaptation or as a function of neutral genetic drift. Trait variation in the model organism baker’s yeast follows population bottlenecks rather than environmental boundaries suggesting that it prim ...
THE PHYLOGENETIC DISTRIBUTION OF A FEMALE PREFERENCE
... for a male trait exists; that is, mate choice model demonstrate that in some cases a rewill favor the male trait if it arises. Muta- sponse to certain patterns not previously tions that occur at low frequencies and re- encountered can be stronger than a result in new male traits may be lost before s ...
... for a male trait exists; that is, mate choice model demonstrate that in some cases a rewill favor the male trait if it arises. Muta- sponse to certain patterns not previously tions that occur at low frequencies and re- encountered can be stronger than a result in new male traits may be lost before s ...