Outputs (132)

Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2013). Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization. Current Anthropology, 54(Supplement 7), S87-S96. https://doi.org/10.1086/670173

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) offer an ever-widening repertoire of possibilities for how bodies, substances, and relationships might be brought together in the accomplishment of reproduction. This article reflects on the tensions that ari... Read More about Managing Potential in Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on Gifts, Kinship, and the Process of Vernacularization.

Biogeographic variation in the baboon: dissecting the cline (2013)
Journal Article
Dunn, J., Cardini, A., & Elton, S. (2013). Biogeographic variation in the baboon: dissecting the cline. Journal of Anatomy, 223(4), 337-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.12085

All species demonstrate intraspecific anatomical variation. While generalisations such as Bergman's and Allen's rules have attempted to explain the geographic structuring of variation with some success, recent work has demonstrated limited support fo... Read More about Biogeographic variation in the baboon: dissecting the cline.

Testing for post-copulatory selection for major histocompatibility complex genotype in a semi-free-ranging primate population (2013)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Abbott, K., Gonzalez, J., & Knapp, L. (2013). Testing for post-copulatory selection for major histocompatibility complex genotype in a semi-free-ranging primate population. American Journal of Primatology, 75(10), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22166

A large body of evidence suggests that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genotype influences mate choice. However, few studies have investigated MHC-mediated post-copulatory mate choice under natural, or even semi-natural, conditions. We set out... Read More about Testing for post-copulatory selection for major histocompatibility complex genotype in a semi-free-ranging primate population.

Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia (2013)
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Schwartz-Marín, E., & Restrepo, E. (2013). Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia. Sociology, 47(5), 993-1010. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513494506

In this article two case studies are compared, Mexico and Colombia, in which the protection of ‘genetic identities’ has generated political and legal systems designed to avoid the unlawful appropriation of biological material and/or DNA in Latin Amer... Read More about Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia.

Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period (2013)
Journal Article
Russell, C., Robinson, L., & Ball, H. (2013). Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period. The Open sleep journal, 6(Suppl 1), 68-76. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874620901306010068

Coping with sleep disruption is a common difficulty faced by new parents. Here we take a critical, contextual and evolutionary perspective on recent evidence surrounding the development of normal infant sleep in the postnatal period, its relationship... Read More about Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period.

Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times (2013)
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Knight, D. (2015). Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times. Ethnos, 80(1), 117-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2013.822012

As economic crisis deepens across Europe people are forced to find innovative strategies to accommodate circumstances of chronic uncertainty. Even with a second multi-billion euro bailout package secured for Greece, the prospects of a sustainable rec... Read More about Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times.

The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia (2013)
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Egorova, Y. (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 21(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.826627

Drawing on two ethnographic examples of the sociocultural aspects of populations genetic research in India, the article explores in what ways tests aimed at assessing ‘genetic differences’ between populations can be viewed as enabling or disempowerin... Read More about The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia.

Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective (2013)
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Dean, L., Vale, G., Laland, K., Flynn, E., & Kendal, R. (2014). Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective. Biological Reviews, 89(2), 284-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12053

Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These similarities and differences have spawned a debate over whether ani... Read More about Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective.

Why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world, and why is language an exception to this trend? (2013)
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Scott-Phillips, T., & Blythe, R. (2013). Why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world, and why is language an exception to this trend?. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 10(88), Article 20130520. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0520

In a combinatorial communication system, some signals consist of the combinations of other signals. Such systems are more efficient than equivalent, non-combinatorial systems, yet despite this they are rare in nature. Why? Previous explanations have... Read More about Why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world, and why is language an exception to this trend?.

Reciprocal causation and the proximate-ultimate distinction (2013)
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Dickins, T., & Barton, R. (2013). Reciprocal causation and the proximate-ultimate distinction. Biology and Philosophy, 28(5), 747-756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-012-9345-z

Laland and colleagues have sought to challenge the proximate–ultimate distinction claiming that it imposes a unidirectional model of causation, is limited in its capacity to account for complex biological phenomena, and hinders progress in biology. I... Read More about Reciprocal causation and the proximate-ultimate distinction.