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6 results for "parental investment"

T_1_02 Verified Psychology & Social

T_1_02 — Evolutionary Psychology — The Adapted Mind

Evolutionary psychology applies Darwinian natural and sexual selection to the human mind, proposing that cognitive mechanisms evolved as functional adaptations to recurrent problems faced by ancestral hunter-gatherers in

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L_3_16 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_3_16 — Genomic Imprinting & Evolutionary Conflict

Genomic imprinting — the epigenetic phenomenon in which a subset of genes (~100–200 in mammals) are expressed from only one parental allele, with the other allele silenced by DNA methylation and histone modification esta

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Z_1_05 Verified Molecular Biology

Z_1_05 — Genomic Imprinting and Parent-of-Origin Effects

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon in which a gene's expression depends on whether it was inherited from the mother or the father — violating the standard Mendelian assumption that both parental copies functi

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ZC_2_18 Credible Social Science

ZC_2_18 — Societal Collapse — Tainter's Complexity Theory

Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988) proposed one of the most influential theoretical frameworks for understanding why civilizations fail: societies collapse when the marginal returns on increasing c

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ZE_5_12 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_5_12 — Ethics of Children: Rights, Development, and Moral Status

The ethics of children addresses a fundamental puzzle: children are full human beings deserving of moral respect, yet they lack the autonomy, rationality, and experience that ground many standard moral and political righ

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I_4_16 Credible UAP Disclosure

I_4_16 — UAP Economic Implications of Disclosure

The potential economic implications of UAP disclosure — the scenario in which governments formally acknowledge the existence of advanced technologies of unknown or non-human origin and either release or fail to contain k

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