The Evolution of Childhood

The Evolution of Childhood

Author: Melvin Konner

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-05-31

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 9780674045668

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A comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development which examines both the cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence.


Invertebrate Relationships

Invertebrate Relationships

Author: Pat Willmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-02-15

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0521330645

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This account of the relationships between invertebrate phyla and the phylogenetic pattern of the animal kingdom serves as a meaningful introduction to the field of invertebrate phylogeny.


Relationship Dynamics

Relationship Dynamics

Author: Steven DeSalvo

Publisher: Become an Adult LLC

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780989346580

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As the first book in the revolutionary EVOLVE series, Relationship Dynamics looks at how we create and sustain healthy relationships using essential principles from permaculture, including observation, resilience, and sustainability. In Relationship Dynamics, you will learn how to develop deeper intimacy in all relationships, how to sustain relationships by following the six steps to conflict resolution, as well as how to identify and avoid emotional drama and dysfunction with others.


Institutional Logics and Practice of the Evolution of Urban–Rural Relationships

Institutional Logics and Practice of the Evolution of Urban–Rural Relationships

Author: Xiaoye Zhe

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9811584192

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This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people. Through reference of the social structure and social behavior, it proposes “opportunity structures”, “interactive mechanism” and “behavior strategies” for different periods, which to some degree promotes the transition of urban-rural relation and brings in new, more complicated issues for the development. It is under the impact of such new and existing issues that big problem follows when the urban-rural relation steps onto a new stage, showing several paths and practices different from the general urbanization and modernization theories.


Evolution, Chance, and God

Evolution, Chance, and God

Author: Brendan Sweetman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1628929863

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Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are difficult to keep separate from each other. Evolution, Chance, and God introduces the reader to the main themes of this debate and to the theory of evolution, while arguing for a particular viewpoint, namely that evolution and religion are compatible, and that, contrary to the views of some influential thinkers, there is no chance operating in the theory of evolution, a conclusion that has great significance for teleology. One of the main aims of this book is not simply to critique one influential contemporary view that evolution and religion are incompatible, but to explore specific ways of how we might understand their compatibility, as well as the implications of evolution for religious belief. This involves an exploration of how and why God might have created by means of evolution, and what the consequences in particular are for the status of human beings in creation, and for issues such as free will, the objectivity of morality, and the problem of evil. By probing how the theory of evolution and religion could be reconciled, Sweetman says that we can address more deeply key foundational questions concerning chance, design, suffering and morality, and God's way of acting in and through creation.


Evolution of Evidence for Selected Nutrient and Disease Relationships

Evolution of Evidence for Selected Nutrient and Disease Relationships

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-05-14

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0309169496

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The Committee on Examination of the Evolving Science for Dietary Supplements of the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board was directed to review, retrospectively, selected case studies of diet and health relationships that were relevant to dietary supplements and identified as important in the National Research Council report, Diet and Health: Implications for Chronic Disease Risk (D&H) (NRC, 1989). It was then to determine the extent to which subsequent scientific evidence from the peerreviewed literature used in published reports from the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) series (IOM, 1997, 1998, 2000a, 2001) either agreed with the preliminary evidence used to support the relationship identified originally in the 1989 review or significantly modified the original hypotheses and preliminary conclusions. The committee's analysis was to include characteristics of research with apparent high probability of predicting future confirmation by new science in support of a diet and health relationship. It also was to consider characteristics of information useful to consumers that would allow them to make scientifically informed judgments about the role that a specific food component or nutrient plays in health.


Ecological Relationships and Evolution of Rickettsiae

Ecological Relationships and Evolution of Rickettsiae

Author: Nyven J. Marchette

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1351088475

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This book provides the fundamental basis for a natural classification of the family Rickettsiaceae and perhaps even the order Rickettsiales. It shows how the pathogenic rickettsiae could have evolved in the course of geologic time through a series of evolutionary developments.


Chinese Banks and Their EMDE Borrowers: Have Their Relationships Changed in Times of Geoeconomic Fragmentation?

Chinese Banks and Their EMDE Borrowers: Have Their Relationships Changed in Times of Geoeconomic Fragmentation?

Author: Catherine Casanova

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2024-09-23

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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While Chinese banks have become the top cross-border lender to EMDEs, their expansion has slowed recently, both in terms of volume and market share. Also, the strong correlation of China’s bilateral trade and its banks’ cross-border lending has weakened, while during 2020-22 lending became more positively correlated with FDI. In our paper, we analyse these patterns and we explore the role of borrower risk variables and foreign policies. Our findings show that, although the shifting correlation from trade to FDI is a general EMDE phenomenon, China’s Belt and Road Initiative reinforces it. By contrast, borrowers that potentially benefit from geoeconomic fragmentation do not display stronger FDI-lending relationships. We also find that Chinese banks exhibit different levels of risk tolerance relative to other bank nationalities as borrower country risk variables are positively correlated with Chinese banks’ market shares, but not with their amounts of cross-border lending.


Horses and Humans

Horses and Humans

Author: Sandra L. Olsen

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Powdermill Nature Preserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, USA, in honor of Mary Aiken Littauer.


Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship

Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship

Author: Michael Ruse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1009277294

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The relationship between science and religion is a topic that runs rife with misconceptions, misunderstandings and debates. Are science and religion always in conflict? Is Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection atheistic? How does history shape current debates around science and religion? This book explores these questions in a neutral and balanced way, focusing on the Christianity-evolution relationship. It shows that two paradigms – the world as an organism and the world as a machine – have critically informed and guided the discussions. The author uses his deep understanding of the history and philosophy of science, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory and its controversies through the past 150 years, to bring fresh ideas to the debate and to wider discussions such as environmental issues and hate. Understanding the Christianity-Evolution Relationship provides a lively and informative analysis and lays out multiple views so that readers can make their own judgements to increase their understanding.