Compare the Social Brain Hypothesis and the Visual Specialisation Hypothesis The aim of this essay is to investigate the two major theories trying to explain why do primates have large brains. Even since the seminar study of Jerison in 1973 it has been acknowledged that primate brains are unusually large for their body size. There are three main groups of theories giving more or less persuasive explanations of the evolution of large brains and high cognitive skills in primates. The first group
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Hypothesis. Conditional on preferring the outcome from lying over the outcome from truth-telling‚ a person is sensitive to neither her own [monetary] gain from lying‚ nor how much [monetary] harm she causes the other side. Notice that aside from the preface of “preferring the outcome from lying”‚ the rest of the Hypothesis seems quite at odds with Gneezy’s Result. The reconciliation is that a significant fraction of Gneezy’s subjects prefer the outcome from lying to truth-telling in some experimental
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Population redistributions based on ethnicity have defused intense rivalries in the recent past‚ and could be a solution to the internal ethnic crises for nations such as the former Yugoslavia. Currently described by the media as "ethnic cleansing"‚ Population redistributions have been the focus of much controversy throughout U.S. and world history. To those affected‚ Population redistributions can be economically and emotionally devastating. It can also lead to enormous tragedies causing thousands
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John D Rockefeller Population ecology is a perspective that seeks to explain the factors that affect the life cycles of organizations. It also suggests why some organizations survive for longer than the others. Earlier theories such a the such as the strategic choice theory argued that organizations try to adapt to changing environments and the ones that do it successfully survive. The population ecology perspective states that it is the environment that
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What would happen without animal testing? Imagine a world where everybody is sick. Thats what will happen without animal testing‚ where humans would experiment on each other to keep us “safe”. Medical testing on animals is good for these reasons: it helps in the development in medicine‚ finding and curing new diseases‚ and keeping humans from dying from the new drugs that have defects. Medicine Medicine is a necessity for human life in the current generation with all the current and new diseases
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the two main characters‚ Jem and Scout Finch‚ live during the Depression Era‚ where racial prejudices is ubiquitous. Through the lessons of their father‚ Atticus‚ and the experience of the notorious trial of Tom Robinson‚ the two siblings embarked on a mental and emotional journey‚ which resulted in their coming of age. To begin‚ Scout and Jem are both reshaped by the lessons taught by Atticus. Atticus Finch is not just an ordinary father to the two‚ but a man of integrity
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the past fifty years is To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which was written by Harper Lee in 1960 (Bernard 8). The story is about Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongly accused black man while the story is told through the perspective of his daughter Jean Louise Finch‚ called Scout‚ and about her life as she grows up in a close together but racist community (Bloom 11). Since it is told through a young girl’s perspective‚ it is a story about a trial‚ yet also a childhood and growing up involving games and first days
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Purpose: Predict how forces can change motion. Provide reasoning and evidence to explain motion changing or not. Answer in Complete Sentences. Open the Forces and Motion Basics simulation and play with the Friction screen for a few minutes. Set your value like the picture below. Imagine that your friend‚ Sam is trying to move a box. Using what you learned by exploring‚ try drawing arrows to predict what might happen in the pictures below. (Try this part without using the simulation.) Sam
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Eliel Pepito 8/1/10 The Beak of the Finch Summary The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner explores evolution through the most famous examples in history—the finches of the Galápagos Islands. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the process of evolution are applied directly to what scientists refer to as Darwin’s Finches. Weiner follows scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant as they study the finches in real time on the Galápagos. Years of previous work‚ study and data is collected
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Efficient Market Hypothesis When establishing financial prices‚ the market is usually deemed to be well-versed and clever. In a stock market‚ stocks are based on the information given and should be priced at the accurate level. In the past‚ this was supposed to be guaranteed by the accessibility of sufficient information from investors. However‚ as new information is given the prices would shift. “Free markets‚ so the hypothesis goes‚ could only be inefficient if investors ignored price sensitive
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