Search for dissertations about: "Sociability"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the word Sociability.
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1. Sex steroids and social behavior: from mouse to human
Abstract : Social behavior is a classification of various behaviors such as sexual behavior, aggressive behavior, social memory and sociability. These behaviors are under the regulation of the brain, and the sex steroids influence important brain regions that control these behaviors in both humans and other animals. READ MORE
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2. From wolf to dog: Behavioural evolution during domestication
Abstract : Biologists since Darwin have recognized that domestication, where species are selected to live in human-controlled environments, exerts strong selection on organisms and dramatically impacts their evolutionary trajectories. Across domesticated mammal species, characteristic morphological, physiological and behavioural changes occur simultaneously, as correlated traits, a phenomenon known as the domestication syndrome. READ MORE
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3. Round goby invasion of the Baltic Sea : the role of phenotypic variation
Abstract : Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity world wide with annual economic costs up to 1.4 trillion dollars. The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a particularly fierce invader that threatens ecological function of the Baltic Sea. READ MORE
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4. Back to the Woods or Into Ourselves? : Kant, Rousseau and the Search for the Essence of Human Nature
Abstract : This thesis contributes to a field of Kant’s practical philosophy that has received renewed attention, namely his moral anthropology. While it is true that Kant, in some of his best-known writings, literally says that the fundamental ground of morality must be pure and thus entirely free from admixture with anthropological principles, he nevertheless admits that these “subjective conditions” in human nature that “either hinder or help people in fulfilling the laws of the metaphysics of morals” make up the foundation of all applied ethics. READ MORE
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5. Trading out? : A study of farming women’s and men’s access to resources in rural Ethiopia
Abstract : Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. READ MORE
