This article examines the discursive narratives in academic literature about nomadic boat-dwelling children of Sama-Bajau group Southeast Asia. Through examining from 1989 to 2021, this paper explores how shapes and mediates children. Findings suggest two threads narratives—one takes a developmentalist lens, other offers alternative that reveal complex identities These observations highlight im...

This paper empirically investigates the biogeographic determinants of the human DRD4 exon III locus, a particular gene variant associated with the human personality trait of novelty-seeking behavior. Providing a novel compilation of worldwide DRD4 exon III allele frequencies in a large sample of indigenous populations around the world, this study employs population-specific biogeographic charac...

Organisms often exhibit behavioral or phenotypic diversity to improve population fitness in the face of environmental variability. When each behavior or phenotype is individually maladaptive, alternating between these losing strategies can counter-intuitively result in population persistence-an outcome similar to the Parrondo's paradox. Instead of the capital or history dependence that characte...