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Borkin et al. (2004) Mass occurrence of polyploid green frogs...
The first report of massive triploidy in the territory of Eastern Ukraine. What is described in this article we have come to call the North-Donetsk center of green frog diversity. …
Mykhailova et al. (2011) A Study of Spermatogenesis in Diploid Pelophylax esculentus
Mykhailova O. V., Kechedzhi A. E., Shabanov D. A. A Study of Spermatogenesis in Diploid Pelophylax esculentus (Amphibia, Anura) using Karyoanalysis in Squashed Preparations // Proceedings of the Ukrainian Herpetological …
Problems of Interpretation. Column in KomputerraOnline #37
We are not cameras that mechanically reflect reality. What we expect, we channel through ready-made cognitive schemas. But what happens when we perceive something entirely unfamiliar?
Elections and Statistics
Many criticize statistical processing: they say it is soulless, lifeless. But there are cases when it is precisely statistics that provide vivid and simply unsurpassed arguments. The distribution of votes …
Modeling Elections
My post about the Russian elections on the Computerra Online blog (here it is on the CT site, and here it is on my site) provoked a fairly serious discussion …
Conclusion from Alexander Markov's "Human Evolution"
A. Markov. Human Evolution. In 2 vols. – Kyiv: Astrel: CORPUS, 2011. A fragment of the 2nd volume (pp. 471–499) is presented here. Some of these materials are already posted …
Hardin (1968) Tragedy of the Commons
{ "title": "The Classic Article by Professor of Biology at the University of California Garrett Hardin, which raised the problem of managing common resources.", "summary": "", "body": "A classic article …
The causes of our (imper)fection. Column in ComputerreOnline #38
The hunting method of our ancestors has left an imprint on our bodies. Its traces – both hairlessness, the nature of thermoregulation, and much more. And equally deep traces of …
Gauss – I believe!
This is not a column, it is the second blog entry on Kompyutere-online, after the first one sparked a truly explosive discussion. Previous stages of the discussion: the first post …
Antelope track chain. Column in ComputerreOnline #39
Humans excel at reconstructing chains of cause and effect and tend to impose their chain logic on any object of study. Regardless of how it functions, we think it works …
Markov and Human Evolution. Column in ComputerreOnline #40
Imagine a book series “Prosveshchitel”: wonderfully published, hand‑to‑hand books with high‑quality printing that are immediately made freely available in electronic form.
Refusal of Expansion? Column in KompyuterraOnline #41
When one of us passes away without leaving children, they become the first such failure in a line of ancestors stretching almost four billion years! What will we become if …