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The (modest) utility of MCI theory
Suppose the following were the story of an existing people, an ancient village at the base of a knoll on which a solitary tree grew. One year,...
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The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis: Modeling equifinality, multifinality, and adaptation to adversity
Neural phenotypes are the result of probabilistic developmental processes. This means that stochasticity is an intrinsic aspect of the brain a...
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The association between religion and self-reported academic honesty among college students
Current research yields inconsistent findings about the association between religious variables and academic cheating among college students. ...
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The Association Between the Bared-Teeth Display and Social Dominance in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Humans use smiles - widely observed emotional expressions - in a variety of social situations, of which the meaning varies depending on social...
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The best of both worlds: Dual systems of reasoning in animals and AI
Much of human cognition involves two different types of reasoning that operate together. Type 1 reasoning systems are intuitive and fast, wher...
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The bioelectric code: An ancient computational medium for dynamic control of growth and form
What determines large-scale anatomy? DNA does not directly specify geometrical arrangements of tissues and organs, and a process of encoding a...
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The Biophysics of Regenerative Repair Suggests New Perspectives on Biological Causation
Abstract Evolution exploits the physics of non‐neural bioelectricity to implement anatomical homeostasis: a process in which embryonic pattern...
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The body electric 2.0: recent advances in developmental bioelectricity for regenerative and synthetic bioengineering
Breakthroughs in biomedicine and synthetic bioengineering require predictive, rational control over anatomical structure and function. Recent ...
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The challenge of synthetic biology. Synthetic Darwinism and the aperiodic crystal structure
‘Grand Challenges’ offer ways to discover flaws in existing theory without first needing to guess what those flaws are. Our grand challenge he...
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The Cognitive Lens: a primer on conceptual tools for analysing information processing in developmental and regenerative morphogenesis
Brains exhibit plasticity, multi-scale integration of information, computation and memory, having evolved by specialization of non-neural cell...
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The complementarity of humility hypothesis: Individual, relational, and physiological effects of mutually humble partners
We report two studies of romantic couples that examine the interactive effects of actor and partner humility on individual, relational, and ph...
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The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of su...
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The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories
Understanding how consciousness arises from neural activity remains one of the biggest challenges for neuroscience...
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The Development of Identity Fusion
The fusion of personal and group identities can lead to self-sacrificial progroup behavior, from acts of charity to violent extremism. Two pat...
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The development of sex differences in play in wild white‐faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)
Many mammalian species display sex differences in the frequency of play behavior, yet the animal literature includes few longitudinal studies ...
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Project: Center for Conflict and Cooperation
The Differential Impact of Climate Interventions Along the Political Divide in 60 Countries
A major barrier to climate change mitigation is the political polarization of climate change beliefs. In a global experiment conducted in 60 countries, the differential impact of eleven climate interventions across the ideological divide is assessed. |
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The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation
Abstract Human‐wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free‐living animal actively coordinate their behaviour...
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The Effect of Common Signals on Power, Coherence and Granger Causality: Theoretical Review, Simulations, and Empirical Analysis of Fruit Fly LFPs Data
When analyzing neural data it is important to consider the limitations of the particular experimental setup. An enduring issue in the context ...
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The Emergence of Informative Higher Scales in Complex Networks
The connectivity of a network contains information about the relationships between nodes, which can denote interactions, associations, or depe...
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The Epistemic Status of Evolutionary Theory
The theory of evolution continues to be a bone of contention among certain groups of theistic believers. This paper aims to bring some light t...
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