Love Is the Cause of Human Evolution
... In the human species sexes have evident sexual characteristics, the male has the largest penis in erection of all existing primates and women have the largest mammary glands of all female primates (for a comprehensive review of human sexuality under an evolutionary light, see Gray, 2013). With regar ...
... In the human species sexes have evident sexual characteristics, the male has the largest penis in erection of all existing primates and women have the largest mammary glands of all female primates (for a comprehensive review of human sexuality under an evolutionary light, see Gray, 2013). With regar ...
(WFSBP) Guidelines for the biological treatment of paraphilias
... with elevated risk of harm to self and others and that there is increasingly effective treatment available. The validity however of paraphilias as a medical diagnosis is ambiguous in that they are excluded in the mental health legislation of many nations as a basis for compulsory detention (Gordon 2 ...
... with elevated risk of harm to self and others and that there is increasingly effective treatment available. The validity however of paraphilias as a medical diagnosis is ambiguous in that they are excluded in the mental health legislation of many nations as a basis for compulsory detention (Gordon 2 ...
What was Fisher`s fundamental theorem of natural selection and
... derived the theorem, these projects were well underway. Indeed, I will suggest that this is part of the reason his accomplishment may not have been as valued as he had hoped. Second, setting out such mathematical relationships, however idealized, helps us understand a basic fact about the conditions ...
... derived the theorem, these projects were well underway. Indeed, I will suggest that this is part of the reason his accomplishment may not have been as valued as he had hoped. Second, setting out such mathematical relationships, however idealized, helps us understand a basic fact about the conditions ...
Stewart_Kathryn_A_201302_PhD - QSpace
... I would like to acknowledge my friends at home and abroad for their tireless encouragement, patience, and for taking my sarcasm in stride. To my amazing colleagues in the Biology Department here at Queen’s University, for creating a battlefield of intellectual discourse which was never dull or more ...
... I would like to acknowledge my friends at home and abroad for their tireless encouragement, patience, and for taking my sarcasm in stride. To my amazing colleagues in the Biology Department here at Queen’s University, for creating a battlefield of intellectual discourse which was never dull or more ...
Effects of testosterone on morphology, performance and muscle
... such as acceleration and endurance capacity, do not contribute to a positive outcome for a male involved in an aggressive interaction with a rival (Huyghe et al., 2005). On the contrary, of the two fighting males with equal head size, the one with the best locomotor capacities is more likely to lose ...
... such as acceleration and endurance capacity, do not contribute to a positive outcome for a male involved in an aggressive interaction with a rival (Huyghe et al., 2005). On the contrary, of the two fighting males with equal head size, the one with the best locomotor capacities is more likely to lose ...
Genomics and the origin of species
... and whole-genome resequencing112 of population samples. Patterns in genome-wide divergence can be visualized and compared using, for example, FST kernel density plots and Manhattan plots98 (FIG. 1). Testing for signatures of introgression Various approaches are available to assess whether the sharin ...
... and whole-genome resequencing112 of population samples. Patterns in genome-wide divergence can be visualized and compared using, for example, FST kernel density plots and Manhattan plots98 (FIG. 1). Testing for signatures of introgression Various approaches are available to assess whether the sharin ...
The Genetics of Sexual Development in East African Cichlid
... Cichlid fishes occur in tropical freshwater lakes and river systems around the world (Salzburger and Meyer 2004; Salzburger 2009). With ~ 3000 species (Turner et al. 2001; Turner 2007) they represent the largest family of all ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) (~ 31,000 species http://www.catalogueo ...
... Cichlid fishes occur in tropical freshwater lakes and river systems around the world (Salzburger and Meyer 2004; Salzburger 2009). With ~ 3000 species (Turner et al. 2001; Turner 2007) they represent the largest family of all ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) (~ 31,000 species http://www.catalogueo ...
a scientific review of abstinence and abstinence programs
... many reviews and studies of abstinence education conclude that the average abstinence program in public schools does not influence the sexual behavior of teenagers. Moreover, many of these reviews and studies are of limited value because they have not studied abstinence education programs focusing o ...
... many reviews and studies of abstinence education conclude that the average abstinence program in public schools does not influence the sexual behavior of teenagers. Moreover, many of these reviews and studies are of limited value because they have not studied abstinence education programs focusing o ...
Lesson Overview
... Lyell’s work helped Darwin appreciate the significance of an earthquake he witnessed in South America. The quake was so strong that it lifted a stretch of rocky shoreline more than 3 meters out of the sea—with mussels and other sea animals clinging to it. Sometime later, Darwin observed fossils of m ...
... Lyell’s work helped Darwin appreciate the significance of an earthquake he witnessed in South America. The quake was so strong that it lifted a stretch of rocky shoreline more than 3 meters out of the sea—with mussels and other sea animals clinging to it. Sometime later, Darwin observed fossils of m ...
Competitive speciation
... polyploidy) could do it, and the result might be a “difficult genus”. Case 3: Disruptive gaps. Between the two peaks of the unoccupied surface is, by definition, a trough. As the wave of phenotypic expansion approaches this trough, it may be depressed below zero. This is a Case 1 situation. However, ...
... polyploidy) could do it, and the result might be a “difficult genus”. Case 3: Disruptive gaps. Between the two peaks of the unoccupied surface is, by definition, a trough. As the wave of phenotypic expansion approaches this trough, it may be depressed below zero. This is a Case 1 situation. However, ...
Darwin on Mind, Morals, and Emotions
... use-inheritance as the cause of an attribute that could not easily be explained by natural selection. After he had returned from his voyage, Darwin often visited the Zoological Society, where he had deposited for analysis and classification many of the animal specimens he had brought back on the Be ...
... use-inheritance as the cause of an attribute that could not easily be explained by natural selection. After he had returned from his voyage, Darwin often visited the Zoological Society, where he had deposited for analysis and classification many of the animal specimens he had brought back on the Be ...
Word - The Open University
... humankind. But the war we wage against rats is singularly unsuccessful (they are notoriously difficult to poison) so it behoves us to learn more about this group, if only to enable our attempts to control them to be more effective. In this course, I will examine some features of rodent biology that ...
... humankind. But the war we wage against rats is singularly unsuccessful (they are notoriously difficult to poison) so it behoves us to learn more about this group, if only to enable our attempts to control them to be more effective. In this course, I will examine some features of rodent biology that ...
Genomics and the origin of species - Integrative Biology
... and whole-genome resequencing112 of population samples. Patterns in genome-wide divergence can be visualized and compared using, for example, FST kernel density plots and Manhattan plots98 (FIG. 1). Testing for signatures of introgression Various approaches are available to assess whether the sharin ...
... and whole-genome resequencing112 of population samples. Patterns in genome-wide divergence can be visualized and compared using, for example, FST kernel density plots and Manhattan plots98 (FIG. 1). Testing for signatures of introgression Various approaches are available to assess whether the sharin ...
A Giselle for Our Time: Mats Ek`s Post
... features of the narrative ballets of Mats Ek, a Swedish dancer and choreographer who gained considerable international acclaim in the 1980s for his reworking of the 19th-century Romantic ballet Giselle. Born April 18, 1945, Mats Ek began his theatre studies at a young age, but did not begin dancing ...
... features of the narrative ballets of Mats Ek, a Swedish dancer and choreographer who gained considerable international acclaim in the 1980s for his reworking of the 19th-century Romantic ballet Giselle. Born April 18, 1945, Mats Ek began his theatre studies at a young age, but did not begin dancing ...
A GUIDE FOR INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY SEXUAL ASSAULT IN
... that gives specific advice on how to support this person and take care of yourself in the process. Whether you or a loved one has experienced sexual assault, simply the fact that you have begun reading this manual is a step toward empowerment and healing. Take your time in considering other steps yo ...
... that gives specific advice on how to support this person and take care of yourself in the process. Whether you or a loved one has experienced sexual assault, simply the fact that you have begun reading this manual is a step toward empowerment and healing. Take your time in considering other steps yo ...
Genome Growth and the Evolution of the Genotype
... shaped by evolutionary forces that systematically affect the nature of developmental constraints, or the smoothness of the adaptive landscape, or its evolvability. Here I discuss an evolutionary mechanism by which selection can come to act indirectly on evolutionary potential, as a consequence of ho ...
... shaped by evolutionary forces that systematically affect the nature of developmental constraints, or the smoothness of the adaptive landscape, or its evolvability. Here I discuss an evolutionary mechanism by which selection can come to act indirectly on evolutionary potential, as a consequence of ho ...
The quantitative genetic basis of sex ratio variation in Nasonia
... eggs on an individual host. Eggs are laid between the puparium wall and the host pupa, with larvae hatching and attaching themselves to the fly pupa to feed. On the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria egg-to-adult development takes approximately 14 days at 25 C, with males eclosing and emerging from the h ...
... eggs on an individual host. Eggs are laid between the puparium wall and the host pupa, with larvae hatching and attaching themselves to the fly pupa to feed. On the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria egg-to-adult development takes approximately 14 days at 25 C, with males eclosing and emerging from the h ...
Evolutionary Connectionism: Algorithmic Principles Underlying the
... selection and applies a strong selective pressure for changes in other ecological relationships (e.g. between a particular herbivore and a particular resource)? How is it that reproductive constraints (e.g. reproduction through a single-celled population bottle-neck) come to define a multicellular o ...
... selection and applies a strong selective pressure for changes in other ecological relationships (e.g. between a particular herbivore and a particular resource)? How is it that reproductive constraints (e.g. reproduction through a single-celled population bottle-neck) come to define a multicellular o ...
Niches in evolutionary theories of technical change
... 3 Punctuated equilibrium6 Some biologists have explicitly theorized the idea that some variations may be rather large, even while most variations are small. In their view, evolution is not only made up of small changes. While they agree that new species may emerge through the accumulation of many sm ...
... 3 Punctuated equilibrium6 Some biologists have explicitly theorized the idea that some variations may be rather large, even while most variations are small. In their view, evolution is not only made up of small changes. While they agree that new species may emerge through the accumulation of many sm ...
Evolutionary Mismatch And What To Do About It: A Basic Tutorial
... The prospects for working out such a complex story might seem daunting, but consider the plight of biomedical scientists trying to understand the causes of atherosclerosis without the help of evolutionary theory. They are faced with the same problem of understanding a complex interaction between a s ...
... The prospects for working out such a complex story might seem daunting, but consider the plight of biomedical scientists trying to understand the causes of atherosclerosis without the help of evolutionary theory. They are faced with the same problem of understanding a complex interaction between a s ...
Niche construction in evolutionary theory: the construction
... trying to claim a degree of originality for NCT that it just does not have. Overall, this leads us to ...
... trying to claim a degree of originality for NCT that it just does not have. Overall, this leads us to ...
Do Sex and Violence Sell? - American Psychological Association
... programs is effective. This assumption is correct if reach is the metric by which effectiveness is measured. However, return on investment (ROI) is actually more important than reach to advertisers who want to get the best value for their ad purchases (Bohnsack, 2013). Advertising ROI is the ratio o ...
... programs is effective. This assumption is correct if reach is the metric by which effectiveness is measured. However, return on investment (ROI) is actually more important than reach to advertisers who want to get the best value for their ad purchases (Bohnsack, 2013). Advertising ROI is the ratio o ...
(1904–2005) Ernst Mayr and the integration of geographic and
... The present paper is broken down into three main sections. Within each section, I highlight particularly relevant theoretical and empirical studies. However, the research of collaborators and myself on speciation in Timema walking-stick insects is used throughout to help bridge the three sections. F ...
... The present paper is broken down into three main sections. Within each section, I highlight particularly relevant theoretical and empirical studies. However, the research of collaborators and myself on speciation in Timema walking-stick insects is used throughout to help bridge the three sections. F ...
Lecture9
... Fish farming strategies that prevent overcrowding and stunting include: 1) cage farming where eggs fall through the mesh to the pond bottom before the female can collect them for brooding; 2) polyculture with a predator fish, such as fingerling largemouth bass, at 400 per acre; and 3) culture of onl ...
... Fish farming strategies that prevent overcrowding and stunting include: 1) cage farming where eggs fall through the mesh to the pond bottom before the female can collect them for brooding; 2) polyculture with a predator fish, such as fingerling largemouth bass, at 400 per acre; and 3) culture of onl ...
setting the stage: phenotypic plasticity as habitat selection
... selection through plasticity to cues can influence the phenotypic expression of other characters, including important lifehistory characters. The shade avoidance response is a classic example of phenotypic plasticity in plants (Smith 1982; Casal and Smith 1989; Ballaré et al. 1990; Smith et al. 199 ...
... selection through plasticity to cues can influence the phenotypic expression of other characters, including important lifehistory characters. The shade avoidance response is a classic example of phenotypic plasticity in plants (Smith 1982; Casal and Smith 1989; Ballaré et al. 1990; Smith et al. 199 ...
Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where typically members of one gender choose mates of the other gender to mate with, called intersexual selection, and where females normally do the choosing, and competition between members of the same gender to sexually reproduce with members of the opposite sex, called intrasexual selection. These two forms of selection mean that some individuals have better reproductive success than others within a population either from being sexier or preferring sexier partners to produce offspring. For instance in the breeding season sexual selection in frogs occurs with the males first gathering at the water's edge and croaking. The females then arrive and choose the males with the deepest croaks and best territories. Generalizing, males benefit from frequent mating and monopolizing access to a group of fertile females. Females have a limited number of offspring they can have and they maximize the return on the energy they invest in reproduction.First articulated by Charles Darwin who described it as driving speciation and that many organisms had evolved features whose function was deleterious to their individual survival, and then developed by Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century. Sexual selection can lead typically males to extreme efforts to demonstrate their fitness to be chosen by females, producing secondary sexual characteristics, such as ornate bird tails like the peacock plumage, or the antlers of deer, or the manes of lions, caused by a positive feedback mechanism known as a Fisherian runaway, where the passing on of the desire for a trait in one sex is as important as having the trait in the other sex in producing the runaway effect. Although the sexy son hypothesis indicates that females would prefer male sons, Fisher's principle explains why the sex ratio is 1:1 almost without exception. Sexual selection is also found in plants and fungi.The maintenance of sexual reproduction in a highly competitive world has long been one of the major mysteries of biology given that asexual reproduction can reproduce much more quickly as 50% of offspring are not males, unable to produce offspring themselves. However, research published in 2015 indicates that sexual selection can explain the persistence of sexual reproduction.