Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection: Comment BY ARTHUR J. ROBSON AND BALÁZS SZENTES∗ ABSTRACT We reexamine Alan R. Rogers’ (1994) analysis of the biological basis of the rate of time preference. Althou

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Directional Evolution for Microsatellite Size in Maize Yves Vigouroux,* Yoshihiro Matsuoka,  and John Doebley* *Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and  Fukui Prefectural University, Matsuoka-Cho,

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• Evolutionary biology
• Statistical genetics
• Population genetics
• Microsatellite
• Mutation
• Mutation rate
• Evolution
• Hardy–Weinberg principle
• Biology
• Genetics
• Philosophy of biology

ENCODING FOR QUALITY How to Deliver the Best Online Video Experience Every Time There’s no excuse for poor-quality online and mobile video. With the rapid evolution of online video technology

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• Data compression
• Data transmission
• Computer file formats
• High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
• Adaptive bitrate streaming
• Transcoding
• Bit rate
• Codec
• X264
• Computing
• Audio codecs
• Electronics

REVIEWS THE MODERN MOLECULAR CLOCK Lindell Bromham* and David Penny ‡ The discovery of the molecular clock — a relatively constant rate of molecular evolution — provided an insight into the mechanisms of molecular

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• Population genetics
• Mutation
• Phylogenetics
• Molecular clock
• Neutral theory of molecular evolution
• Mutation rate
• Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
• Neutral mutation
• Substitution model
• Biology
• Molecular evolution
• Evolutionary biology

Seppo Laine, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech Why Should We Care? •  The apparently steady rate of star formation in disk galaxies implies a source of continuous replenishment

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• Extragalactic astronomy
• Space
• Galaxies
• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Stellar evolution
• Astronomy

A rate-distortion scenario for the emergence and evolution of noisy molecular codes

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• Matrices
• Morse theory
• Multivariable calculus
• Information theory
• IIHF World U18 Championships – Division II
• Mathematical analysis
• Mathematics
• Hessian matrix

The physical language of molecular codes: A rate-distortion approach to the evolution and emergence of biological codes (Invited Paper) Tsvi Tlusty Department of Physics of Complex Systems

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• Data compression
• Statistics
• Symbol
• Constructible universe
• Rate–distortion theory
• Markov chain
• Information theory
• Information
• Coding theory

Poster reference number: KINGINDIRECT SELECTION ON THE MUTATIONAL LANDSCAPE: AN EVOLVED ROLE FOR THE MUTABILITY OF REPETITIVE DNA? David G. King Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine

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• Population genetics
• Genetics
• Genetic load
• Mutation rate
• Evolution
• Mutation
• Fixation
• Microsatellite
• Polymorphism
• Evolutionary biology
• Biology
• Philosophy of biology

Seasonal evolution of estimated stratopause height and its distance to the cold point tropopause from COSMIC radio occultations Heidar Thor Thrastarson1, Manuel de la Torre Juarez1 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Californi

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• Earth
• Stratopause
• Tropopause
• Radio occultation
• Stratosphere
• Occultation
• Lapse rate
• Atmosphere
• Atmospheric sciences
• Meteorology

Journal of Human Evolution–333 Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution Herman Pontzer*, Richard W. Wrangham 50A Peabody Museum,

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• Locomotion
• Chimpanzees
• Exercise physiology
• Apes
• Common chimpanzee
• Knuckle-walking
• Eastern chimpanzee
• Bonobo
• Basal metabolic rate
• Zoology
• Fauna of Africa
• Biology