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AAMAS
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Stochastic Simulation of Inherited Kinship-Driven Altruism
The aim of this research is to assess the r^ole of a hypothetical inherited feature (gene) promoting altruism between relatives as a factor for survival in the context of a multi-...
Heather Turner, Dimitar Kazakov
COGSCI
2008
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The Relation Between Essentialist Beliefs and Evolutionary Reasoning
Historians of science have pointed to essentialist beliefs about species as major impediments to the discovery of natural selection. The present study investigated whether such be...
Andrew Shtulman, Laura Schulz
BMCBI
2008
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WSPMaker: a web tool for calculating selection pressure in proteins and domains using window-sliding
Background: In the study of adaptive evolution, it is important to detect the protein coding sites where natural selection is acting. In general, the ratio of the rate of non-syno...
Yong Seok Lee, Tae-Hyung Kim, Tae-Wook Kang, Won-H...
BMCBI
2010
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Haplotype allelic classes for detecting ongoing positive selection
Background: Natural selection eliminates detrimental and favors advantageous phenotypes. This process leaves characteristic signatures in underlying genomic segments that can be r...
Julie Hussin, Philippe Nadeau, Jean-Françoi...
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On the Unit of Selection in Sexual Populations
Evolution by natural selection is a process of variation and selection acting on replicating units. These units are often assumed to be individuals, but in a sexual population, the...
Richard A. Watson