What Do We Study in Evolutionary Ethnobiology? Defining the Theoretical Basis for a Research ProgramSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 44 - Trang 206-215 - 2016
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior
Many scientific fields investigate the relationship between humans and nature
from different perspectives and with a wide range of questions. These fields
include, for example, human ecology, human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary
psychology, and they are linked through the fact that they all adopt ecological
and/or evolutionary hypotheses to understand this phenomenon. In this paper, we
defin... hiện toàn bộ
Is the Capacity for Vocal Learning in Vertebrates Rooted in Fish Schooling Behavior?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 45 - Trang 359-373 - 2018
Matz Larsson, Benjamin W. Abbott
The capacity to learn and reproduce vocal sounds has evolved in phylogenetically
distant tetrapod lineages. Vocal learners in all these lineages express similar
neural circuitry and genetic factors when perceiving, processing, and
reproducing vocalization, suggesting that brain pathways for vocal learning
evolved within strong constraints from a common ancestor, potentially fish. We
hypothesize th... hiện toàn bộ
Effects of Phenotypic Robustness on Adaptive Evolutionary DynamicsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 47 - Trang 233-239 - 2020
Emanuele Rigato, Giuseppe Fusco
Theoretical and experimental studies have provided evidence for a positive role
of phenotype resistance to genetic mutation in enhancing long-term adaptation to
novel environments. With the aim of contributing to an understanding of the
origin and evolution of phenotypic robustness to genetic mutations in organismal
systems, we adopted a theoretical approach, elaborating on a classical
mathematica... hiện toàn bộ
Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early HomininsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 35 - Trang 159-175 - 2008
Nathaniel J. Dominy, Erin R. Vogel, Justin D. Yeakel, Paul Constantino, Peter W. Lucas
The diet of early human ancestors has received renewed theoretical interest
since the discovery of elevated δ13C values in the enamel of Australopithecus
africanus and Paranthropus robustus. As a result, the hominin diet is
hypothesized to have included C4 grass or the tissues of animals which
themselves consumed C4 grass. On mechanical grounds, such a diet is incompatible
with the dental morpholo... hiện toàn bộ
Surface Representation and Morphometric Analysis Based on Discrete Cosine TransformSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 102-122 - 2022
Bingjue Li, Shengmin Zhou, Heng Nie
Fourier series are usually employed to describe closed or open, 2D or 3D
outlines of biological samples. Landmark-based morphometric methods are widely
used in the analysis of 3D surfaces. There are few investigations on the
representation and morphometric analysis of 3D biological sample surfaces with
methods relating to Fourier series. In this paper, we firstly extend discrete
cosine transform (... hiện toàn bộ
Understanding Neutral Genomic Molecular ClocksSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 - Trang 144-151 - 2007
Soojin V. Yi
The molecular clock hypothesis is a central concept in molecular evolution and
has inspired much research into why evolutionary rates vary between and within
genomes. In the age of modern comparative genomics, understanding the neutral
genomic molecular clock occupies a critical place. It has been demonstrated that
molecular clocks run differently between closely related species, and generation
ti... hiện toàn bộ