Recent work on human altruism and evolution

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The conflict between human altruism and evolution can be approached using strategies of elimination or reconciliation. The attempt to reconcile the two ideas seems more promising than the effort to eliminate one of the assumptions leading to the paradox. Strategies of reconciliation include regarding altruism as a vestige, a by-product or a continuing adaptation. The most valid theories appear to be those that regard altruism either as a by-product of selection for conformity or as an adaptive trait in its own right.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Altruism, Altruism (Human behavior), Behavior evolution, Behavioral evolution

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The call of the future

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The efficiency of electric companies' information systems are deemed vital in their market success. A call center is a powerful information system that provides data about the caller concerning preferences, problems, characteristics and outbound.

Usage, Electric utilities, Telecommunications systems, Information systems

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Electrons in flatland

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Electrons exhibit the quantum Hall effect in a plane between two semiconductors when a magnetic field is applied. Electrons pair up and act as bosons that become superconducting and exhibit quantized Hall conductances.

Observations, Superconductivity, Quantum Hall effect, Electron-electron interactions

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