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Costs As a Key but too Often Neglected Component of Evolutionary Theory 成本是进化理论中一个关键但经常被忽视的组成部分

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-023-00428-2

M. Blute

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Scaling in the Evolution of Biodiversity 生物多样性演化中的尺度

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00427-9

A. Spiridonov, S. Lovejoy

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Miniaturization and Abstraction in the Later Stone Age 石器时代晚期的小型化与抽象化

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00423-z

C. Shipton

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Many Paths to Anticipatory Behavior: Anticipatory Model Acquisition Across Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Timescales 预期行为的许多途径:跨系统发育和个体发育时间尺度的预期模型获取

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-03 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00426-w

Matthew Sims

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Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. 结果:中新世猿类和蔷薇类果实的进化。

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1

Robert N Spengler, Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, David R Begun, Kseniia Ashastina, Michael Petraglia

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Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology. 目的论:重新审视目的论的概念替代。

Biological theory Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00424-y

Max Dresow, Alan C Love

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引用次数: 2

An Overarching Framework for Understanding and Explaining Human Nature 理解和解释人性的总体框架

Biological theory Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00425-x

Harry Smit

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Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Cultural Information 文化演化与文化信息演化

Biological theory Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00422-0

Alejandro Gordillo-García

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A Selected Look at Niche Construction Theory Including Its Incorporation of the Notion of Phenotype-Mediated Developmental Plasticity 生态位构建理论及其与表型介导的发育可塑性概念的结合

Biological theory Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00418-w

T. P. Brady