THE MEANDERING PATHS FOLLOWED by the evolutionary pressure produced by chance and necessity (32) have shaped the structures and functions of the respiratory control system through the slow process of natural selection (7, 8, 35). The resulting complexity of the respiratory control system has made it difficult to decipher the intricate laws or properties behind the mechanisms controlling the rhy...

Election violence is common in many developing countries and has potentially detrimental implications for democratic consolidation. Drawing on political psychology, we argue that citizens’ fear of campaign undermines support democracy while increasing autocracy. Using individual-level survey data from 21 electoral democracies Sub-Saharan Africa, find robust our argument. Citizens fearing are le...