Second Nature and Animal Life

Nature and Forensic investigation of crime in Second Life

Online social spaces have become very popular in the past couple of decades. With the great numbers of users in the online environments it becomes obvious that the human factor plays an important role in the social structure of such environments. In online virtual worlds such as Second Life one may encounter not only civil, but even criminal offenses such as fraud, money laundering, or sexual h...

Preface: Animal Cognition in Nature

The Second World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences.

Oxidative stress: animal adaptations in nature.

As a consequence of aerobic life, an organism must deal with the continuous generation of reactive oxygen species (O2-, H202, .OH) as byproducts of metabolism and defend itself against the harm that these can do to cellular macromolecules. Organisms protect themselves from such damage with both enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant defenses. However, the reperfusion injuries noted after ischem...

The animal nature of spontaneous human laughter

⁎ Corresponding author. Department of Communicatio Evolution, and Culture, University of California, Los Angele CA 90095-1563. Tel.: +1 310 825 5984. E-mail address: [email protected] (G.A. Bryant). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.03.003 1090-5138/© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Article history: Initial receipt 25 March 2013 Final revision received 21 March 2014