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31Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …
32Democratic peace theory — (or liberal democratic theory[1] or simply the democratic peace ) is the theory that democracies, for some appropriate definition of democracy, rarely, or even never, go to war with one another. Some have preferred the term inter democracy… …
33Nucleic acid structure prediction — This article is about the computational prediction of nucleic acid structure. For experimental methods, see Nucleic acid structure determination. Nucleic acid structure prediction is a computational method to determine nucleic acid secondary and… …
34Sequence alignment — In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences.[1]… …
35anthropology — anthropological /an threuh peuh loj i keuhl/, anthropologic, adj. anthropologically, adv. /an threuh pol euh jee/, n. 1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs… …
36arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
37Galton's problem — Galton’s problem, named after Sir Francis Galton, is the problem of drawing inferences from cross cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon now called autocorrelation. The problem is now recognized as a general one that applies to all… …
38William Tell — For other uses, see William Tell (disambiguation). Detail from the Statue of William Tell and his son in Altdorf, Switzerland (Richard Kissling, 1895) William Tell (in the four languages of Switzerland: German: Wilhelm Tell …
39Evolution — Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) The world of organisms comprises a great system of individual forms generally classified according to structural… …
40Mircea Eliade — Eliade redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Eliade (surname). Mircea Eliade Born March 13, 1907(1907 03 13) Bucharest, Romania Died April 22, 1986( …
