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Erratum: Spiteful soldiers and sex ratio conflict in polyembryonic parasitoid wasps (American Naturalist 169, (519-533))
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On the consequences of the interdependence of stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms
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Rediscovering digitules in Aphidomorpha and the question of homology among Sternorrhyncha (Insecta, Hemiptera)
Published 2017-07-01“…The term was originally proposed for toe-like setae on a species of Phylloxera Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834 (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aphidomorpha) by Henry Shimer, an American naturalist. While it is standard terminology in scale systematics (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Coccidomorpha), the term digitule was ignored by aphid specialists despite being the original taxon for which the term was described. …”
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The Garden in the Laboratory: Arthur C. Pillsbury’s Time-Lapse Films and the American Conservation Movement
Published 2022-10-01“…From the 1910s through the 1930s, the American naturalist and photographer Arthur C. Pillsbury made time-lapse and microscopic films documenting what he, in common parlance, called the “miracles of plant life”. …”
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The Study of American Literary Naturalism: A Personal Retrospective
Published 2021-11-01“…There has been much recent interest in the American naturalist movement and its texts. It seems, as long as American writers respond deeply to the disparity between the ideal and the actual in our national experience, naturalism will remain one of the major means for the registering of this shock of discovery.…”
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Sexual imprinting leads to speciation in locally adapted populations
Published 2022-11-01“…Approximate equations for the boundaries of the set of polymorphic evolutionary outcomes were derived by Bulmer (American Naturalist, 106, 254, 1972), but our results, obtained by deterministic simulation of the evolutionary process, show that one of Bulmer's equations is inaccurate except when the level of dominance is 0.5, and fails if one of the alleles is dominant. …”
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A Biocultural Dialogue between Thoreau and Taoist Thought: Rethinking Environmental Ethics, Nature, Spirituality and Place
Published 2023-06-01“…Yet there are, in fact, profound similarities between the American naturalist and Chinese philosophy, in particular Taoism. …”
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How phenotypic matching based on neutral mating cues enables speciation in locally adapted populations
Published 2019-12-01“…Abstract Maynard Smith's (American Naturalist, 1966, 100, 637) suggestion that in some cases a prerequisite for speciation is the existence of local ecological adaptations has not received much attention to date. …”
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"Old Trees Are Our Parents"
Published 2022-12-01“…The evocative phrase “old trees are our parents” comes from the nineteenth-century American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, suggesting a literary lineage as well as a genetic lineage across species—humans and trees. …”
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Population dynamics and avian brood parasitism: persistence and invasions in a three-species system
Published 2005“…Comparison of our model against its precursors using field data for the parameters when available, shows that the three-species cowbird model system is stable for empirically realized parameter values, unlike a previous model by May and Robinson (1985; American Naturalist, 126, 475-494) where none of the three characteristics were included. © 2005 British Ecological Society.…”
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Titian Ramsay Peale’s 1831 “Obscure Expedition to Colombia”: Status Quaestionis of the Sketches at the American Philosophical Society
Published 2020-07-01“…Titian Ramsey Peale, was an American naturalist and artist and the youngest son of the painter Charles Willson Peale. …”
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La ciencia norteamericana se vuelve global: el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de Nueva York en Colombia
Published 2008-12-01“…The paper illustrates how theories of race and migration shaped the way in which North American naturalists appropriated and comprehended Colombian nature. …”
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Plantae des États-Unis – Rediscovered Pages from Alexander von Humboldt's United States Diary
Published 2017-12-01“…Humboldt also collected information on useful and medicinal plants, listed North American naturalists and documented consumer prices. Résumé Un manuscrit découvert récemment jette un nouvel éclairage sur le séjour d'Alexander von Humboldt aux États-Unis en 1804. …”
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A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae)
Published 2018-05-01“…To increase their recognition among North American naturalists, English common names are also proposed for all North American Epeolus. …”
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