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philosomama: Baby and me, and Bifidobacterium makes three
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Thursday, 21 August 2014. Baby and me, and Bifidobacterium makes three. It has long been contended that breastfeeding boosts an newborn's immune system. But I've never quite understood how this is supposed to work. Antibodies are made of protein, so wouldn't any antibodies in the milk just get digested before they were any use to the baby? Trisha Gura at science mag. Providing a food supply for baby's 'good' bacteria, it turns out. That helps her look aft...
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Claire's passle page - Claire's evolution revolution
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Funny, thought-provoking or just plain weird science that I happen to stumble across and find cool. Claires passle page Archive. Https:/ www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle logo-186px.png. Female-named storms kill more people! Our implicit biases have been uncovered once again in a brilliant example. If a hurricane is named a female name, people are less likely. As a free user, you can follow Passle and like posts. To repost this post to your own Passle blog, you will need to upgrade your account.
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Claire's passle page - Claire's evolution revolution
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Funny, thought-provoking or just plain weird science that I happen to stumble across and find cool. Claires passle page Archive. Https:/ www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle logo-186px.png. Should a Chimp be able to sue its owner? Thought provoking story of a crusading lawyer advocating legal representation for sentient animals. Some view the argument as. Reposted by Claire El Mouden. From Social evolution today. As a free user, you can follow Passle and like posts. Try reposting to another Passle.
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philosomama: Powers and Clarke: Insititutions and the development of human sociality
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Friday, 7 August 2015. Powers and Clarke: Insititutions and the development of human sociality. Dr Simon Powers is a member of the Lehmann group. In the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, although he originally got his PhD in computer science. Powers claims that the explanatory task is not. Finally, Powers argues that another important explanatory task consists in detailing how we evolved the cognitive complexity necessary ...
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Claire's passle page - Claire's evolution revolution
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Funny, thought-provoking or just plain weird science that I happen to stumble across and find cool. Claires passle page Archive. Https:/ www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle logo-186px.png. Wasp has a zinc-tipped drill for laying eggs. A species of parasitic wasp has evolved a drill for boring into fruit and injecting its eggs into larvae within. Reposted by Claire El Mouden. Https:/ www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle logo-186px.png. Listen to your body clock: Ignore evolution at your peril. Something ...
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philosomama: August 2015
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Thursday, 20 August 2015. Miscarriage is such a cruel world. Like misconduct, it implies irresponsibility, fault, deliberately improper handling, by a woman, of her duty. She carried it wrong. Labels: How im doing. Friday, 7 August 2015. Powers and Clarke: Insititutions and the development of human sociality. Dr Simon Powers is a member of the Lehmann group. Labels: Biology and the natural world. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The unbearable richness of being.
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philosomama: Helanterä and Uller: Superorganisms as model systems
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Thursday, 23 July 2015. Helanterä and Uller: Superorganisms as model systems. Is interested in establishing whether sufficient heritable variation exists at the level of whole insect colonies to support a between-colony selection process, in which colonies act as units of selection in their own right. Dr Tobias Uller, is Doctor of Zoology at the Universities of Oxford and Lund. In response to Helanterä's. Uller says we need to get over thinking that colon...
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philosomama: April 2015
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Tuesday, 21 April 2015. Of Maureen O'Malley's 'Philosophy of Microbiology' here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The unbearable richness of being. What Laurie Paul expected about expecting. Blue for the boys. A Look At Our World. David Papineau - Blog. Dr Claire El Mouden. Evolution: This View of Life Magazine. Get a Life, PhD. Goodbye, Pert Breasts: The Diary of a Newborn Dad. Ironic Points of Light. J Robert G Williams. Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog.
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philosomama: Conference Announcement
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Friday, 27 March 2015. We are becomingly increasingly aware of the action of systems of inheritance that are not genetic. Organisms inherit, for example, epigenetic marks, niches, symbionts, culture. We are learning more and more about non-standard genetic inheritance systems such as lateral gene transfer, meiotic driver genes and transposable elements. Francesca Merlin (Philosophy, Paris). Heikki Helanterä (Biology, Helsinki). Subscribe to: Post Comments...
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philosomama: Inheritance and cooperation program
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Philosopher. Mama. Not necessarily in that order. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Inheritance and cooperation program. All talks take place in LR23 at Balliol College, Oxford. 0945am – 10.15am. 1015am – 11.00am. Philosophy, Oxford): Introduction to inheritance and cooperation. 1100am – 12.30pm. Zoology, Helsinki): ‘ Superorganisms as model systems.’. Dr Tobias Uller (Zoology, Oxford/Lund): Response. 1230pm – 2.00pm. 200pm - 3.30pm. Philosophy, Paris): ‘ Limited extended inheritance. 330pm – 4.00pm. Evolution: Thi...
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