• Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring. (wikipedia.org)
  • Given their shared evolutionary history with humans, nonhuman primates play an exceptional role in the study of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution. (springer.com)
  • G. Huang’s paper on empirical evidence for natural selection in the wild addresses a crucial topic in evolutionary biology: how we can objectively determine whether natural selection has actually affected the evolution of a particular species? (uncommondescent.com)
  • Schaub analyzes the work of Pascal Boyer and Scott Atran among others, showing how their evolutionary and anthropological theories of the origins of religion are intimately tied to the evolution of altruism, a subject of much debate and research during the second half of the 20th century. (uncommondescent.com)
  • From changes in gene flow to adaptation, the effects of urbanization are shaping the evolutionary trajectories of plants and animals. (the-scientist.com)
  • The study of this so-called urban evolution "is an area that's rapidly gaining momentum," says Marc Johnson , an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Toronto who recently accepted Miles as a postdoc. (the-scientist.com)
  • social behavior can be explained in terms of an evolutionary advantage of such behavior. (ukessays.com)
  • Sexual selection is quite different in non-human animals than humans as they feel more of the evolutionary pressures to reproduce and can easily reject a mate. (wikipedia.org)
  • The process of learning involves optimizing connection weights between nodes in successive layers to make the neural network exhibit a desired behavior ( Fig. 1 b ). (jneurosci.org)
  • The Mind's Eyes: Human Pheromones, Neuroscience, and Male Sexual Preferences , which extended what was know about RNA-mediated cell type differences in sexual orientation, after the award winning review Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology linked the 1996 model of RNA-mediated cell type differentiation to all aspects of animal behavior. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • Reproductive strategy can also influence the adaptive potential of invasive populations. (plos.org)
  • His analyses of natural selection in Galapagos finches and Labrabor blue/snow geese points out that natural selection, while central to the neo-darwinian theory of evolution, is difficult to measure in natural populations, requiring many years of careful demographic analysis and challenging field work. (uncommondescent.com)
  • At the time of Miles's project, ecological theory predicted that populations of animal species living in the city would likely have lower genetic diversity than those living in rural areas, because urban environments contain roads, buildings, and other physical barriers that can fragment species' habitats and block dispersal, reducing the circulation of new genetic variants. (the-scientist.com)
  • [4] Familiar albino animals include in-bred strains of laboratory animals (rats, mice and rabbits), but populations of naturally occurring albino animals exist in the wild, e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • Migration between seasonal habitats is a critical part of the life cycle of most ungulate populations in the western U.S. Moving from place to place, often across hundreds of miles, allows these animals to negotiate changes in weather, food availability, predator activity, and other ecological variables. (pewtrusts.org)
  • When migration pathways are blocked or disrupted, animal populations tend to decline. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Human activity disrupts migratory behavior and jeopardizes the health of ungulate populations. (pewtrusts.org)
  • One hypothesis regarding the evolution of male parental care in non-monogamous species suggests that parental behaviour is correlated with increased siring of offspring. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animal Behaviour 87 , 23-29. (upenn.edu)
  • Animal Behaviour 84 , 21-27. (upenn.edu)
  • Animal Behaviour 80 , 3-8. (upenn.edu)
  • The artificial evolution of adaptive behaviour. (google.be)
  • Animal Behaviour 49: 749-757. (utexas.edu)
  • He studies the mathematics of collective animal behaviour, social dynamics and mathematical biology. (lu.se)
  • David is the author of S occermatics and Outnumbered, which have been translated into ten languages, and Collective Animal Behaviour , the leading text in the academic field he helped create. (lu.se)
  • Minimalistic approach to 3D obstacle avoidance behavior from simulated evolution. (mpg.de)
  • Note that while the behavioral hierarchy presented here is intended to be widely applicable to motion behaviors, it is not well suited for other types of autonomous actions, for example the conversational behaviors of a chatterbot require a significantly different structure. (red3d.com)
  • They provide an up to date synthesis of the current state of understanding of primate behavioral ecology, organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they grow up in a difficult and dangerous world, find mates and rear offspring, negotiate complex social worlds, and employ cognitive strategies for coping with life's challenges. (rutgers.edu)
  • Traditionally, scientists tended to assume animals had limited agency and behavioral flexibility or were incapable of engaging in complex forms of decision-making. (springer.com)
  • The theory proposed herein explains at multiple levels - ultimately genetic but involving (1) behavioral, (2) life history, and (3) social changes - the origin and evolution of menopause in women. (frontiersin.org)
  • Darwin explained the evolution of morphological and behavioral differences by putting forward certain basic processes. (ukessays.com)
  • Sickness behavior is a behavioral complex induced by infections and immune trauma and mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sickness behavior is a behavioral complex that is typically induced by acute infections and tissue injury in many mammalian species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1969) and denunciations made by Morris (1964) about behavioral disorders in zoo animals. (bvsalud.org)
  • and behavioral problems in the animals. (bvsalud.org)
  • Systematic a maximum classification for them for uniting to control context and understand the ecology of evolution on the method. (stormportal.de)
  • Trends Ecology and Evolution, 22: 148-155. (scielo.br)
  • Related plants often produce seeds that are dispersed in very different ways, raising questions of how and why plants undergo adaptive shifts in key aspects of their reproductive ecology. (springer.com)
  • This information, which primarily indicates where a particular animal is located at a given moment, is revolutionizing the understanding of wildlife ecology by enabling scientists for the first time to pinpoint when and where wildlife moves at a grand scale. (pewtrusts.org)
  • 1] A. Manning and M. S. Dawkins, "An introduction to animal behavior," 5th Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1998. (fujipress.jp)
  • They would be accused of committing a major scientific sin, namely, anthropomorphism, if they empathized with their research subjects or thought animals share emotions, social strategies, or cognitive abilities with humans (e.g. (springer.com)
  • 2017 ). These discoveries would have been impossible without careful self-examination of our own behaviors, societies, and cognitive abilities. (springer.com)
  • The fact that human pheromones obviously exist and that pheromones control the nutrient-dependent physiology of reproduction in species from microbes to man leaves no room for ridiculous theories about the evolution of molecules or the evolution of people. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • 6] T. D. Seeley, "The wisdom of the hive: The social physiology of honey bee colonies," Harvard University Press, 1996. (fujipress.jp)
  • Thus, shared immuno-inflammatory pathways underpin the physiology of sickness behavior and the pathophysiology of clinical depression explaining their partially overlapping phenomenology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Chapters on human behavior at the end of each section is one novel aspect of the book that reminds us what we can learn about ourselves through cutting edge research on nonhuman primates. (rutgers.edu)
  • However, accounting for many behaviors and morphological differences he failed to explain altruism in terms of natural selection. (ukessays.com)
  • The necessity to function with resource constraints has led evolution to design animal brains (and bodies) to be optimal in their use of computational power while being adaptable to their environmental niche. (jneurosci.org)
  • Developmental plasticity and thermal acclimation can contribute to adaptive responses to climate change by altering functional traits related to energy and water balance regulation. (wiley.com)
  • The evolution of male parental care is particularly rare in non-monogamous species because predominantly, investing effort into mating is more evolutionarily effective for males than providing parental care. (wikipedia.org)
  • synonymized to ebook by useful phylogenies, the obtained species' of Perciformes is especially the analysis of allowed fishes, while confounding French evolution that has carefully compiled into trans-subordinal waters and relatives. (stormportal.de)
  • 2003. Recent speciation in the Indo-West Pacific: Rapid evolution of gamete recognition and sperm morphology in cryptic species of sea urchin. (scielo.br)
  • As researchers are realizing that evolution can, and regularly does, happen at a much faster pace than previously thought-on the order of decades and centuries rather than millennia and eras-they are beginning to observe the effects of this global urbanization on species' genetic makeup. (the-scientist.com)
  • The world is full of cities, and for many species, each city is an independent theater of evolution. (the-scientist.com)
  • In contrast to the indispensable survival fear of the individual and the species, the phobia is a pathological behavior of excessive fear that has lost its adaptive character. (vin.com)
  • Further, because animals in some species learn how and where to migrate from older members of the herd, disturbance of a route for more than a generation can mean the long-term or permanent loss of that inherited knowledge and, with it, vital nutritional and fitness resources. (pewtrusts.org)
  • It has generated significant amount of data about procedures which may reduce stress and undesirable behaviors, and promote the performance of the species-specific behaviors in captivity contexts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Unfortunately this tries an habitat only no. confirm how phylogenetic the data please on the osteological ebook The Human Zoo: A Zoologist\'s Study of the Urban Animal historical to the main significance, typically they construct to continue that phylogenetic tree. (stormportal.de)
  • Questions of origins and evolution are interpreted differently in different cultures, and as Mathisen shows, these concepts are not viewed with the same importance nor with the same presuppositions that generally pertain in America and western Europe. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Friedman WE, Carmichael JS (1996) Double fertilization in Gnetales: implications for understanding reproductive diversification among seed plants. (springer.com)
  • The gene, cell, tissue, organ, organ-system pathway is a neuroscientifically established link between sensory input and behavior. (perfumingthemind.com)
  • In this review, we introduce the properties of dance behavior at the levels of dancers, followers, and colonies. (fujipress.jp)
  • J. Schaub’s paper on the implications of darwinian evolution for altruism and religion is a commentary on the current state of understanding in those fields. (uncommondescent.com)
  • This area, which develops close to from the point of view of the efficiency and ethi- the practice of caring for captive animals, constitutes cal implications. (bvsalud.org)
  • Prof. Ryne Palombit recently published with his collaborators Evolution of Primate Societies (University of Chicago Press). (rutgers.edu)
  • Law, Human Behavior and Evolution, in The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, (vol. 8, 1997) University of San Diego School of Law. (gruterinstitute.org)
  • Pauline Kergus uses artificial intelligence to model the thermal behavior of buildings. (lu.se)
  • In order to explore this feature, it is important to model building's thermal behavior in order to enable the use of demand-side management control strategies. (lu.se)
  • Crane PR (1996) The fossil history of the Gnetales. (springer.com)
  • There is great variation in different animal groups in terms of how parents care for offspring, and the amount of resources invested by parents. (wikipedia.org)
  • These steering behaviors are largely independent of the particulars of the character s means of locomotion. (red3d.com)
  • His current interests focus on a feature of primate biology that largely differentiates these animals from most other mammals: cohesive social bonds between adult males and females persisting beyond estrus. (rutgers.edu)
  • Artificial evolution: A new path for artificial intelligence? (google.be)
  • This has shaped human evolution for many years, but reasons why humans choose their mates are not fully understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animals may have both biological pigments and structural colours, for example, some butterflies with white wings. (wikipedia.org)
  • When you notice a characteristic of an animal and ask what its Darwinian survival value is, you may be asking the wrong question. (wikipedia.org)
  • Armbruster,W. S. (1988).Multilevel comparative analysis of the morphology, function, and evolution of Dalechampia blossoms. (reading.ac.uk)
  • In the unit of clinical ethology of the Hospital School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires the phobias corresponded to 10,50 % of the disorders of behavior diagnosed in 190 patients. (vin.com)
  • In: Brain and Evolution: 24th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference 1996, S. 231 - 233 (Hg. (mpg.de)
  • [3] It has been suggested that sexual selection played a part in the evolution of the anatomically modern human brain, i.e. the structures responsible for social intelligence underwent positive selection as a sexual ornamentation to be used in courtship rather than for survival itself, [4] and that it has developed in ways outlined by Ronald Fisher in the Fisherian runaway model. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some hypotheses about the evolution of the human brain argue that it is a sexually selected trait, as it would not confer enough fitness in itself relative to its high maintenance costs (a fifth to a quarter of the energy and oxygen consumed by a human). (wikipedia.org)
  • In this paper the term behavior is used to refer to the improvisational and life-like actions of an autonomous character. (red3d.com)
  • The behavior of an autonomous character can be better understood by dividing it into several layers. (red3d.com)
  • Evolution of the sensorimotor control in an autonomous agent. (mpg.de)
  • [2] The role of sexual selection in human evolution has not been firmly established although neoteny has been cited as being caused by human sexual selection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sexual selection's role in human evolution cannot be definitively established, as features may result from an equilibrium among competing selective pressures, some involving sexual selection, others natural selection , and others pleiotropy . (wikipedia.org)
  • Further, migrants interacted significantly more with the peered-at food item after the peering event, than before, suggesting that they practice the observed behavior. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this memoir, paleontotogists Walker and Shipman splice stories of their adventures excavating the animal with an analysis of its biology--as revealed by current research and by Mary Leakey, who discovered the first Proconsul skull in Kenya in 1948. (harvard.edu)
  • Biology, Law and Human Social Behavior. (gruterinstitute.org)
  • Conservation of ancient pathways used by migratory ungulates-such as the pronghorn, pictured, traversing an aspen grove in Wyoming-can help protect these animals and the many benefits they provide to other wildlife and human communities. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Ryne Palombit's research focuses on the extraordinary diversity of social and mating strategies in animals (both human and nonhuman), and how those strategies have evolved. (rutgers.edu)
  • Here we examine how migrant male orangutans use a behavior called "peering" (an indicator of observational social learning), to learn from local individuals. (frontiersin.org)
  • Together, our study provides important evidence that social learning in great apes expands towards adulthood, an ability which critically impacted also human evolution. (frontiersin.org)
  • The field of research in environmental enrichment aims at enhancing the welfare of captive animals through the assessment and establishment of adequate environmental and social features. (bvsalud.org)
  • Animals can appear coloured due to two mechanisms, pigments and structural colours . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is accompanied by the sensitization processes, anticipation and avoidance, provoking a clinical significant discomfort that interferes with the normal behavior. (vin.com)
  • Inflammation may provoke a Janus-faced response with a good, acute side, generating protective inflammation through sickness behavior and a bad, chronic side, for example, clinical depression, a lifelong disorder with positive feedback loops between (neuro)inflammation and (neuro)degenerative processes following less well defined triggers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This Figure shows the theory that acute triggers cause inflammation and increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (PICs), which is associated with the onset of sickness behavior and clinical depression. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patterns of parental care are widespread and highly diverse across the animal kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • Parental care thus only evolves where it is adaptive. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2 Urban environments, he says, are seen by many as an exciting new playground for research into evolution in action. (the-scientist.com)
  • Animals successfully thrive in noisy environments with finite resources. (jneurosci.org)
  • We found that errors in waggle dance information play an important role in adaptive foraging in dynamically changing environments. (fujipress.jp)
  • Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO) of the results of the Gruter Institute's Moral Markets project (article summary of book of same title). (gruterinstitute.org)
  • Moral Markets" in, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77 (2011) 212-233. (gruterinstitute.org)
  • As in the case of quantum mechanics, where measurements and the behavior of quanta are entwined no matter what controls researchers place on the experiment, scientific objectivity in primatology is accomplished by including their own sensations and emotions as critical variables in research. (springer.com)
  • To stay informed about the latest news and research in the sciences and Intelligent Design, visit Evolution News . (uncommondescent.com)
  • As promised, selected final research papers from the students enrolled in the â€Å"Evolution and Design†seminar at Cornell have now been uploaded to their own area in the Evolution and Design website. (uncommondescent.com)
  • In ebook The Human Zoo: A Zoologist\'s Study of the Urban Animal 1996 to this I include a natural tree in enhanced morphology. (stormportal.de)
  • It is hardly an exaggeration to say that primatology is an intellectual "melting pot" in the study of animals. (springer.com)
  • Another ebook The Human Zoo: A Zoologist\'s Study of Book is the % traffic fits mating evolution matrix. (stormportal.de)
  • It became this idea of a very powerful way to study evolution across the globe, replicated thousands of times. (the-scientist.com)
  • Moreover, Darwin himself pioneered an approach to the study of innate behavior that remains influential even today. (uva.nl)
  • DNA metabarcoding overcomes many of the challenges associated with traditional methods and it is an attractive approach to study the dietary profiles of animals. (bvsalud.org)
  • It may have "come along for the ride", dragged along in evolution by some other characteristic to which it is pleiotropically linked. (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] It is a common misconception that all albino animals have characteristic pink or red eyes (resulting from the lack of pigment in the iris allowing the blood vessels of the retina to be visible), however this is not the case for some forms of albinism. (wikipedia.org)
  • In: Artificial Neural Networks: ICANN 96: 1996 International Conference Bochum, Germany, July 16-19, 1996, S. 251 - 256 (Hg. (mpg.de)
  • In: 6th International Conference Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 1996), S. 1241 - 1246 (Hg. (mpg.de)
  • Bouchon-Meunier, B.). 6th International Conference Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 1996), Granada, Spain, 01. (mpg.de)
  • Miles's results illustrate one of the many ways cities are having profound effects on their animal and plant residents. (the-scientist.com)
  • This paper divides motion behavior into three levels. (red3d.com)
  • Finally, J. Schlachet’s paper on a buddhist outlook on the evolution-design controversy, like E. Mathisen’s, shows that when viewed through a non-western perspective this controversy looks very different. (uncommondescent.com)