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Molecular characterization of mitochondrial Amerindian haplogroups and the amelogenin gene in human ancient DNA from three archaeological sites in Lambayeque - Peru

Important pre-Inca civilizations, known by their great political and religious structures, inhabited the northern coast of Peru. Archeological and anthropological studies have shown that people from ... northern coast of Peru. This place was an important socio-political center for ancient pre-Inca civilizations such as Moche (100 C.E.-700 C.E.), Sipan (250 C.E.), Sican (900 C.E.-1100 C.E.), and Lambayeque

Reconstruction of major maternal and paternal lineages of the Cape Muslim population

The earliest Cape Muslims were brought to the Cape (Cape Town -South Africa) from Africa and Asia from 1652 to 1834. They were part of an involuntary migration of slaves, political prisoners and ... British Empire in 1795 and again in 1806 (Giliomee, 2003). Alongside the slaves, convicts and political exiles (mainly from Indonesia) were also sent to the Cape, some of whom were prominent Muslim clerics

Science and evolution

explains many aspects of a current political situation. Only evolution explains the patterns observed in the fossil record. Examples include the succession in the fossil record; we cannot find the easily

A tribute to José María ("Chema") Cantú

until his retirement in 2001. The challenge of developing the field of human genetics in Guadalajara, far from the center of Mexican political, economic and scientific power, was met by Chema with ... in what was, at the time, one of the most attractive centers for human genetic studies in Latin America. According to Chema's vision and philosophy, these training programs were open to all

Crodowaldo Pavan (1919-2009): one of a kind

, Ciências e Letras (School of Philosophy, Sciences and Humanities) at the University of São Paulo (USP). Once graduated, he was invited to work in the Department of General Biology, founded in 1934 by ... when the Chair of General Biology, held by Professor André Dreyfus, was created at the School of Philosophy, Sciences and Humanities at USP in 1934, and the Chair of Cytology and General Genetics, headed

Polynomial-Time Axioms of Choice and Polynomial-Time Cardinality

Choice. Throughout this paper, our general philosophy is that “set” should become “language in P” and “function” should become “function in FP.” Where there are several obvious choices for how to

The future of plant biotechnology in a globalized and environmentally endangered world

manageable levels thanks to the technological, economic and political developments we brought about in the past decades. Today, biotechnology developments are delivering an array of powerful tools to medicine ... for agroforestry in temperate regions (Smith et al., 2013). The challenge lies in the political will to promote the research required to the adoption of agroforestry as a mainstream agricultural

Lossy Kernelization of Same-Size Clustering

categorical, that is, can admit a fixed number of possible values. For example, it could be gender, blood type, or political orientation. A prominent example of categorical data is binary data, where the points

Perceptual learning and representational learning in humans and animals

scenes in the future. I review the evidence showing that a similar philosophy and generative scheme of representation has successfully described a wide range of experimental data in the domain of classical

Reconstruction of major maternal and paternal lineages of the Cape Muslim population

The earliest Cape Muslims were brought to the Cape (Cape Town -South Africa) from Africa and Asia from 1652 to 1834. They were part of an involuntary migration of slaves, political prisoners and ... British Empire in 1795 and again in 1806 (Giliomee, 2003). Alongside the slaves, convicts and political exiles (mainly from Indonesia) were also sent to the Cape, some of whom were prominent Muslim clerics

Obvious Strategyproofness, Bounded Rationality and Approximation

” implementation [ 30 ] shares some of the motivations and philosophy behind OSP. The authors note that the implementation (via normal-form games) of a social choice function is more obvious if there exists a

Bernardo Beiguelman (1932-2010)

fifties, he moved to Marilia, where he taught biology at the State School of Philosophy (Escola Estadual de Filosofia). After a short but successful period in Marilia he moved again, this time to Campinas

Comments on R.C. Guimarães

advisable to ignore the knowledge acquired in theoretical biology and philosophy of biology, which have been discussing the gene concept since the 1980s. Symptomatically, publications from these fields are

The Organic Codes: an introduction to semantic biology

his interdisciplinary nature, for although being primarily an embryologist he is also accomplished in mathematics, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and philosophy. In this book, Barbieri is

A tribute to José María ("Chema") Cantú

until his retirement in 2001. The challenge of developing the field of human genetics in Guadalajara, far from the center of Mexican political, economic and scientific power, was met by Chema with ... in what was, at the time, one of the most attractive centers for human genetic studies in Latin America. According to Chema's vision and philosophy, these training programs were open to all

Newton Freire-Maia (1918-2003): from Boa Esperança to the world

relationship. As long ago as 1951 I had just finished my undergraduate studies and had received a fellowship from the University of São Paulo to work in the Biology Department at the School of Philosophy

Soft inheritance: challenging the modern synthesis

 ]     Send correspondence to: Eva Jablonka The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel E-mail: Received: March 18, 2008

Remembering the past – studies on evolution done by the genetics group at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

and first expansion (1949-1961) It all started with a young man of 24 years of age, Antonio Rodrigues Cordeiro, student of the Natural History Course, School of Philosophy, University of Rio Grande do ... returned from São Paulo. He was already an Assistant Professor at UFRGS, and with the decisive support of the then Director of the School of Philosophy, Bernardo Geisel (1901-1985), he organized a small

Genetics and human rights: Two histories: restoring genetic identity after forced disappearance and identity suppression in Argentina and after compulsory isolation for leprosy in Brazil

dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983, the military engaged in savage repression and egregious violations of human rights, including the forced disappearance of 30,000 political dissidents ... , 2009), uses the allegory of "as if my mother's genes were acting in me" to provide an explanation for why, even before knowing her true identity, her personality, political convictions, and social

Comparative transcriptome analysis of the hippocampus from sleep-deprived and Alzheimer’s disease mice

(RWY201603); Key Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (No. 2017ZDIXM100). References Area-Gomez E, Groof A, Bonilla E, Montesinos J