Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "life history"

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    • Brief communication: Dental development and enamel thickness in the Lakonis Neanderthal molar 

      Smith, Tanya; Harvati, K.; Olejniczak, A.J.; Reid, D.J.; Hublin, J.-J.; Panagopoulou, E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
      Developmental and structural affinities between modern human and Neanderthal dental remains continue to be a subject of debate as well as their utility for informing assessments of life history and taxonomy. Excavation of ...

    • Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire 

      Wrangham, Richard W.; Carmody, Rachel Naomi (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led to so much else, including such ...

    • Illness in breastfeeding infants relates to concentration of lactoferrin and secretory Immunoglobulin A in mother’s milk 

      Breakey, Alicia A.; Hinde, Katie; Valeggia, Claudia R.; Sinofsky, Allison; Ellison, Peter T. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Background and objectives: This study aims to better understand the relationship between immune compounds in human milk and infant health. We hypothesized that the concentration of immune compounds in milk would relate to ...

    • Incremental Dental Development: Methods and Applications in Hominoid Evolutionary Studies 

      Smith, Tanya (Elsevier, 2008)
      This survey of dental microstructure studies reviews recent methods used to quantify developmental variables (daily secretion rate, periodicity of long-period lines, extension rate, formation time) and applications to the ...

    • Life Historical Perspectives on Human Reproductive Aging 

      Ellison, Peter T. (New York Academy of Sciences, 2010)
      A commentary is offered on the chapters that comprise the section on Theoretical Foundations, emphasizing novel contributions of each. Three additional points are then made. First, while the biology of reproductive aging ...

    • Major flowering time gene, FLOWERING LOCUS C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana 

      Chiang, G. C. K.; Barua, D.; Kramer, Elena M.; Amasino, R. M.; Donohue, K. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) is a major regulator of flowering responses to seasonal environmental factors. Here, we document that FLC also regulates another major life-history transition-seed germination, and that natural ...

    • New Frontiers for Organismal Biology 

      Kültz, Dietmar; Clayton, David F.; Robinson, Gene E.; Albertson, Craig; Carey, Hannah V.; Cummings, Molly E.; Dewar, Ken; Edwards, Scott V.; Hofmann, Hans A.; Gross, Louis J.; Kingsolver, Joel G.; Meaney, Michael J.; Schlinger, Barney A.; Shingleton, Alexander W.; Sokolowski, Marla B.; Somero, George N.; Stanzione, Daniel C.; Todgham, Anne E. (American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2013)
      Understanding how complex organisms function as integrated units that constantly interact with their environment is a long-standing challenge in biology. To address this challenge, organismal biology reveals general ...

    • Recurrent bottlenecks in the malaria life cycle obscure signals of positive selection 

      Chang, Hsiao-Han; Hartl, Daniel L. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)
      Detecting signals of selection in the genome of malaria parasites is a key to identify targets for drug and vaccine development. Malaria parasites have a unique life cycle alternating between vector and host organism with ...