Undertaking behavior is an essential adaptation to social life that is critical for colony hygiene in enclosed nests. Social insects dispose of dead individuals in various fashions to prevent further contact between corpses and living members in a colony. Focusing on three groups of eusocial insects (bees, ants, and termites) in two phylogenetically distant orders (Hymenoptera and Isoptera), we...

This article shares and reflects on Underwater Haiku Exquisite Corpse – a playful approach to writing enquiry about rivers their underwater environments. The was an adaptation of the Surrealist exquisite corpse concept collaborative game in which each participant wrote or drew response prompt kept contribution concealed until end, when full revealed all contributors. We consider how our fostere...

The law on the management of corpses is fardhu kifayah (collective obligation). However, problem that many people do not have courage to so, due a lack religious knowledge regarding burial corpses, as well fear corpse itself. purpose this community service provide and understanding simulation handling women's corpse. This training was given twice, namely for PKK women members Fatayat Muslimat N...

Disease poses a threat to any society, and this threat is amplified for societies persisting in cramped quarters over extended periods of time. Highly social (eusocial) insects actively combat the danger of pathogen proliferation with a myriad of tactics, one of which is necrophoresis or the removal of corpses from the nest. This study examines the spatial patterns of the corpse depositions of ...

☆ This research was conducted during release time sup frastructure in Minority Institutions (RIMI) from the Natio and Health Disparities, P20MD003938. ☆☆ Note. The dataset for this study is located at http://cla ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (C. White). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.05.006 1090-5138/Published by Elsevier Inc. Article history: Init...

By baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. However, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...