Punishment or mercy? Tripartite game between the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance by Xinrui Zhang, Jiashu Zhang

“…This study explores the strategies of the State, offenders, and victims in China’s environmental crime governance and develops a three-party evolutionary game model to analyze these interactions. …”
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“Age of risk” shapes simpler multimodal communication in the juvenile plains zebra (Equus quagga) by Severine B. S. W. Hex, Daniel I. Rubenstein

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A Cooperative Coevolutionary Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Optimization Problem by Hongqing Zheng, Yongquan Zhou

“…Taking inspiration from an organizational evolutionary algorithm for numerical optimization, this paper designs a kind of dynamic population and combining evolutionary operators to form a novel algorithm, a cooperative coevolutionary cuckoo search algorithm (CCCS), for solving both unconstrained, constrained optimization and engineering problems. …”
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Design of Large Thinned Arrays Using Different Biogeography-Based Optimization Migration Models by Sotirios K. Goudos, John N. Sahalos

“…Array thinning is a common discrete-valued combinatorial optimization problem. Evolutionary algorithms are suitable techniques for above-mentioned problem. …”
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Un cas d’accouchement en occipito-pubien chez Pan troglodytes by Pierre Frémondière, Romain Lacoste, Lyna Rachid

“…These characteristics have been interpreted from an evolutionary perspective and they are supposed to be due to the physical constraints related to the increase in brain size and bipedal locomotion. …”
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Natural selection and evolution: evolving concepts by Andre J. van Wijnen, Eric Lewallen

“… Many recent studies in evolutionary biology have expanded and refined definitions of biological evolution and natural selection. …”
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Homopteran Attendance by Wasps and Ants: The Stochastic Nature of Interactions by Deborah K. Letourneau, Jae C. Choe

“…Associations of Hymenoptera with Homoptera have intrigued ecologists and evolutionary biologists as model systems of mutualism. …”
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Species evolution: cryptic species and phenotypic noise with a particular focus on fungal systematics by Anusha H. Ekanayaka, Anusha H. Ekanayaka, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Arun Kumar Dutta, Danushka Sandaruwan Tennakoon, Anuruddha Karunarathna, Ekachai Chukeatirote, Dong-Qin Dai, Steven L. Stephenson, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, Chao Liu, Alan J. L. Phillips

“…The former represents morphologically indistinguishable but genetically distinct evolutionary lineages, while the latter represents the phenotypic variations of an isogenic population. …”
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Genome assembly of an endemic butterfly (Minois aurata) shed light on the genetic mechanisms underlying ecological adaptation to arid valley habitat by Wenqian Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Jialong Huang, Jingge Kuang, Lei Wang, Kangshan Mao, Liang Dou

“…However, the adaptive evolutionary mechanisms of organism in the arid valley remain poorly understood. …”
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Exploratory analysis of molecular traits of the mitochondrial DNA of leafcutting ants to infer taxonomic characters towards an integrative taxonomy by Perpetua Ndubuisi Onyinyechi, Natália Martins Travenzoli, Maykon Passos Cristiano, Danon Clemes Cardoso

“…Accurate systematic classification of biodiversity is fundamental for ecological and evolutionary studies, especially in a world where biodiversity is increasingly reduced and threatened. …”
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Human-machine interactions with clinical phrase prediction system, aligning with Zipf's least effort principle? by Jamil Zaghir, Mina Bjelogrlic, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Julien Ehrsam, Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac, Christian Lovis

“…The essence of language and its evolutionary determinants have long been research subjects with multifaceted explorations. …”
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Selection Based on Colony Fitness for Differential Evolution by Zi Ming, Yang Li, Shijie Peng, Xuechao Wu, Jinyi Guo

“…Our experiments are based on the 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation and the 2014 Congress on Evolutionary Computation benchmark functions. …”
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The transnational earth: Evolution meets the World Heritage in model development scenarios for a globally inclusive knowledge economy by Hana Ayala

“…The article explores the global promise of the natural reserves of the knowledge capital that permeate the earth's evolutionary and ecological connectivity and may constitute the greatest reserve of the sustainability and common good of the global knowledge economy. …”
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Paradigm shifters: tricksters and cultural science by Hartley John

“…The disciplinary purpose of the paper is to try to bridge two otherwise disconnected domains – cultural studies and evolutionary economics – by showing that the traditional methods of the humanities (e.g. anthropological, textual and historical analysis) have explanatory force in the context of economic actions and complex-system evolutionary dynamics. …”
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Functional insights from an exploration of the inner structure of the patella: new perspectives for the study of the hominin fossil record by Marine Cazenave

“…This contribution is a short review of the functional significance of the patella in extant catarrhines and extinct hominins and of current functional, adaptive and evolutionary-related questions concerning the fossil hominin record. …”
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Overview of Phacidiales, including Aotearoamyces gen. nov. on Nothofagus by Luis Quijada, Peter R. Johnston, Jerry A. Cooper, Donald H. Pfister

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To what extent are call combinations in chimpanzees comparable to syntax in humans? by Maël Leroux

“…Nevertheless, a contentious debate surrounding the evolutionary origins of syntax remains, specifically whether the combinatorial capacities displayed in animals merely illustrate a case of convergent evolution or whether it could also represent, within the primate lineage, a homologous trait to syntax in humans. …”
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Characterization of the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Kaloula mediolineata (Microhylidae, Anura) and Its Phylogenetic Analysis by Thu-Thao Thi Huynh, Minh Trong Quang, Hoang Danh Nguyen

“…Phylogenetic analyses were conducted to determine the taxonomic status and evolutionary relationships of K. mediolineata within the Kaloula genus. …”
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Companion dogs flexibly and spontaneously comprehend human gestures in multiple contexts by Hannah Salomons, Jordan Sokoloff, Brian Hare

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Optimization of a Conical Corrugated Antenna Using Multiobjective Heuristics for Radio-Astronomy Applications by S. López-Ruiz, R. Sánchez Montero, F. Tercero-Martínez, P. L. López-Espí, J. A. López-Fernandez

“…The antenna optimization has been carried out with multiobjective versions of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. …”
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