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Origin and evolution
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This book discusses the evolution of Modern Fishes, the Dinosaur Integument, Mammal-like Reptiles, and Reptiles Return to the Sea.Abstract:
Introduction.- The First Vertebrates, Jawless Fishes, the Agnathans.- The Earliest Jawed Vertebrates, the Gnathostomes.- Evolution of Modern Fishes: Critical Biological Innovations.- Tetrapods and the Invasion of Land.- Crucial Vertebrate Innovations.- The Dinosaur Integument.- Mammal-like Reptiles.- Reptiles Return to the Sea.read more
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A uniform asteroseismic analysis of 22 solar-type stars observed by Kepler
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Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity
TL;DR: Strikingly, evolution of all classes of eukaryotic viruses appears to have involved fusion between structural and replicative gene modules derived from different sources along with additional acquisitions of diverse genes.
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Does religious belief promote prosociality? A critical examination.
TL;DR: Factors necessitate a revision of the religious prosociality hypothesis and suggest that future research should incorporate more stringent controls in order to reach less ambiguous conclusions.
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Make super-earths, not jupiters: accreting nebular gas onto solid cores at 0.1 au and beyond
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which super-Earths can be accreted by cores from their parent circumstellar disks were determined, and two scenarios were identified: the final assembly of super-Earth cores from mergers of proto-cores, a process that completes quickly at ∼0.1 AU, while still ensuring the formation of Jupiters at ≳ 1 AU.
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Merging black hole binaries: the effects of progenitor's metallicity, mass-loss rate and Eddington factor
Nicola Giacobbo,Nicola Giacobbo,Michela Mapelli,Michela Mapelli,Michela Mapelli,Mario Spera,Mario Spera,Mario Spera +7 more
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A uniform asteroseismic analysis of 22 solar-type stars observed by Kepler
Savita Mathur,Travis S. Metcalfe,M. Woitaszek,Hans Bruntt,Graham A. Verner,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,O. L. Creevey,G. Doğan,G. Doğan,Sarbani Basu,Christoffer Karoff,Christoffer Karoff,Dennis Stello,T. Appourchaux,Tiago L. Campante,Tiago L. Campante,William J. Chaplin,Rafael A. García,Timothy R. Bedding,Othman Benomar,Alfio Bonanno,S. Deheuvels,Y. P. Elsworth,Patrick Gaulme,Joyce A. Guzik,Rasmus Handberg,Saskia Hekker,Saskia Hekker,W. Herzberg,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,L. Piau,P.-O. Quirion,C. Régulo,C. Régulo,Markus Roth,David Salabert,Aldo Serenelli,Michael Thompson,Regner Trampedach,Timothy R. White,J. Ballot,I. M. Brandão,J. Molenda-Zakowicz,Hans Kjeldsen,Joseph D. Twicken,Kamal Uddin,Bill Wohler +47 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a uniform analysis of 22 stars with the highest signal-to-noise ratio observed for 1 month each during the first year of the Kepler space telescope and quantified the precision and relative accuracy of asteroseismic determinations of the stellar radius, mass and age that are possible using various methods.