In India, large-scale rural to urban migrations are occurring in record numbers within the last twenty to thirty years.These migrations are inflating the populations of major urban centers such as Delhi and Mumbai.Within these streams of migrations, the number of youth leaving to cities is also dramatically increasing.At the same time, deep agricul
Abstract Recent international research in social science teaching highlights difficulties adolescents face when constructing social and citizenship awareness, and their own identity.To shed more light on this process, the present study is framed in the context of social science classrooms, and more specifically around how social and civic competenc
Numerous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural mechanisms of two mutually independent yet closely related cognitive processes aiding humans to navigate complex societies: social hierarchy-related learning (SH-RL) and social hierarchy-related interaction (SH-RI).To integrate these here heterogeneous results into a more fine-grained and r
The bush cricket Mecopoda elongata provides a striking example of sympatric intraspecific divergence in mating signals.Five completely distinct song types are found in various parapatric and sympatric locations in South India.While there is convincing evidence that population divergence in M.elongata is being maintained as a result of divergence in
In this study, we used genetic approaches to assess the conservation status of a protected amphibian species, the Macedonian crested newt, Triturus macedonicus, in Northern Pindos National Park (Epirus, Greece).Mitochondrial DNA sequences and multilocus genotypes of individuals from 38 breeding sites were used to infer their phylogenetic position a