Comparative and experimental approaches to cognition in different animal taxa suggest some degree of convergent evolution. Similar cognitive trends associated with similar lifestyles (sociality, generalism, new habitats) are seen in taxa that are phylogenetically distant and possess remarkably different brains. Many cognitive measures show positive intercorrelations at the inter-individual and ...

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The majority of emergent human pathogens are zoonotic in origin, that is, they can transmit to humans from other animals. Understanding the factors underlying the evolution of pathogen host range is therefore of critical importance in protecting human health. There are two main evolutionary routes to generalism: organisms can tolerate multiple environments or they can modify their environments ...

The Royal College of General Practitioners describes generalism as expertise in whole person medical care[1]. According to the Shape of Training review, there is a need to train more generalists to deal with the changing pressures that face today’s health services, such as growing numbers of patients with multiple chronic morbidities[2,3]. General practitioners (GPs) are the largest number of t...

a considerable part of the current thought has allocated to various debates on the “globalization age” and “different globalizations”. globalization as a phenomenon which has tightened social, cultural and political relations is deepening and expanding in a daily manner. despite of this generalism, a kind of exceptionalism in form localist theories has been remarked in the globalization context...

One of the distinguished theoretical advantages concept grounding is its ability to unify various cases metaphysical dependence and determination relations. That presupposes that itself unified. The unity was usually tacitly presupposed among theorists, but it gradually became a subject discussion because skeptical challenges. In this article, I will examine three most general theories groundin...

Two plants can influence one another indirectly by affecting population dynamics of shared exploiters and/or mutualists, giving rise to apparent competition or mutualism, respectively. Indirect interactions between also occur when the preferences and mutualists adapt changes in relative plant densities. Here we study simultaneous effects adaptive herbivore pollinator on two competing population...