SEA LEVEL RISE AND THE EVOLUTION OF AGGRESSION ON ISLANDS

Sea level rise and the evolution of aggression on islands

Summary: Why aggressive traits evolve in some species but not SKIRTS in others is poorly understood.We modeled the population dynamics of the extinct Mauritius dodo and Rodrigues solitaire to examine divergent pathways in the evolution of aggression.Whereas the dodo conformed to island syndrome predictions of tameness, its sister-taxon the solitair

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Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods

Although the fear of Yhwh brake tool has been presented as an intrinsic feature of the ancient Israelite religion, the fear of God(s) is not limited to the people of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, and similar ideas of fearing deities occur in various texts produced by neighbouring cultures in the ancient eastern Mediterranean.This article investigates

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Il carteggio fra Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli e Quintino Sella - The Correspondence between Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli and Quintino Sella

Abstract One of the most important correspondence of the Risorgimento and unification period is Drain Collector Hose that exchanged between Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884) not only for scientific and political stature of the two protagonists, but also for the opportunity it offers to discover new aspects an

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