Animal play and evolution: seven timely research questions about enigmatic phenomena

GM Burghardt, SM Pellis, JC Schank… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nature of play in animals has been long debated, but progress is being made in
characterizing play and its variants, documenting its distribution across vertebrate and …

A hypothesis of teleological evolution, via endogenous acetylcholine, nitric oxide, and calmodulin pathways

A Lewis - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) addresses the issues in evolutionary
biology which cannot be explained by neo-Darwinian theory. The EES paradigm recognises …

[图书][B] Involvement of the Nucleus Accumbens to Ventral Pallidum Pathway in the Regulation of Social Play Behavior in Juvenile Male and Female Rats

J Lee - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Social play behavior is a highly rewarding behavior that is displayed in various mammalian
species, including rats and humans. Engaging in social play is essential for the development …

[引用][C] The physiology of evolution

D Noble, M Joyner - The Journal of Physiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Evolution', was chosen because only by reintegrating physiological processes back into
evolutionary biology can evolutionary biology itself escape from the impasse into which a …