It has become increasingly and widely recognised that bacteria do not exist as solitary cells,
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Recent and ongoing developments in microbiome science are enabling new frontiers of
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… 215), and its emphasis on acts, not actors, contrasts with dualistic and deterministic accounts
of technology as alien to human beings and as stable causes of effects (Barnard 1996). As (…

When two sheets of graphene are stacked at a small twist angle, the resulting flat superlattice
minibands are expected to strongly enhance electron-electron interactions. Here, we …

For centuries, practitioners of origami (‘ori’, fold; ‘kami’, paper) and kirigami (‘kiru’, cut) have
fashioned sheets of paper into beautiful and complex three-dimensional structures. Both …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

Rod and cone photoreceptors detect light and relay this information through a multisynaptic
pathway to the brain by means of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) 1 . These retinal outputs …

In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of
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Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives
anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. …

Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation
that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature …