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The Inevitable Fate of the Forest-Steppe, or The Hidden Springs of History. Column for Computerra #118
First: the history of Sloboda Ukraine is partly programmed by the differences between forest and steppe niches available to members of traditional cultures. Second: we view the history of the struggle between two cultures by identifying with one of them …
Six traditional ecological niches and six social worlds of traditional human cultures. Column for Computerra #117
Each of the main ways of life generates its own population structure of people. I will try to pick different words to denote the typical groups of people associated with the six niches I have listed. I think one can …
Kazan–Yelabuga. Almost Random Photographs
Photographs capturing a couple of fragments (a walk through Kazan and the ceremonial events in Yelabuga) from a trip to Tatarstan for a teachers’ festival
Culturally adapting opportunists, or On the diversity of ecological niches of Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758. Column for Computerra #116
Thus, throughout its history, our species has changed its ecological niches. Recognizing this fact, we immediately find ourselves faced with the necessity of classifying these niches, describing their dynamics, and determining how they are related to other human characteristics. Here …
Bondareva et al. (2012) Cytogenetic characteristics of erythrocytes of green frogs
Bondareva A. A., Bibik Yu. S., Samilo S. M., Shabanov D. A. Cytogenetic characteristics of erythrocytes of green frogs from the Siversky Donets diversity centre of the Pelophylax esculentus complex // Bulletin of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: …
Shabanov (2012) The Hybridogenetic Complex of Water Frogs as a Model for Studying Multilevel Selection
Shabanov D.A. The hybridogenetic complex of water frogs as a model for studying multilevel selection // Bulletin of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Series - Biology. - Ivano-Frankivsk: Publishing House of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2012. - …
Meleshko, Kravchenko (2012) Study of green frogs of the Iskov pond
Meleshko O.V., Kravchenko M.O. Investigation of the population system state of green frogs (Pelophylax esculentus complex) of the Iskyi pond of Zmiivskyi district of Kharkiv region // Visnyk Prykarpatskoho natsionalnoho universytetu imeni Vasylia Stefanyka. Seriia - Biolohiia. - Ivano-Frankivsk : …
How will biology and other worldview-significant sciences be studied in such a school of the future, which is worth dreaming about? Column for Kompyuterra #115
Project justification (probably slightly or not so slightly utopian): creation of the distance learning complex "Humanity and Biosphere. Sustainable Future", intended to significantly improve the efficiency of school education
What can be judged by measuring fluctuating asymmetry?
Measuring fluctuating asymmetry — an intriguing method designed to get to the most intimate mechanisms of development. Alas, it does not always work. Often reality turns out to be «disobedient» and produces a result directly opposite to what was expected.
Vinogradova et al. (2013) Study of Fluctuating Asymmetry in European Perch
Article based on fieldwork from the 2012 summer practice by Vinogradova K. P., Sakun Yu. V., Belousova K. M., Goncharov G. L., Shabanov D. A. Study of fluctuating asymmetry of European perch (Perca fluviatilis L., 1758) // Biology and Valeology, …
Population explosion of the Afro-Asian introduced species Pistia stratiotes on the Siversky Donets
I had to witness firsthand what a population explosion looks like. On June 28, I caught a single specimen of a plant in the Siversky Donets River, near the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University biological station, which I had previously …
Photo Report on an Event That Happened a Week Ago...
Without pomp, in the company of three friends, somewhat greater certainty was achieved in the relationship between M.K. and D.Sh. For this, we had to break away from field practice in Haidary for a day and go to Kharkiv...
From the chaos of observations to dynamic typology: a discussion using the example of green frog population systems. Column for Kompyuterra #113
Do not «prop up» your judgments with references to the will of the Creator. Let us ourselves, by the powers of our reason, observe, experiment, model, make forecasts, and choose the state we desire!
Noosphere: rational forecast, scientistic vision, or hackneyed chant of science charlatans? Column for Kompyuterra #112
The evolution of the Universe has led to the fact that in us it has acquired the ability for self-knowledge. The Universe arrived at this state by passing through numerous cycles of differentiating unification. Will this process stop at us? …
Kravchenko (2013) Ecological Sustainability of Population Systems ... (Abstract)
On June 19, the defense of the candidate dissertation of M. A. Kravchenko took place in Dnipropetrovsk. Here we present an extended translation of her author's abstract into Russian and provide a link to the Ukrainian author's abstract in PDF …
The Zoologist's Credo, or What Can We Learn from Our Own Animal Nature? Column for Kompyuterra #111
In my columns I have had occasion to mention TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) — an American-born system of conferences, or perhaps quasi-scientific festivals. I learned that beyond the American TED’s there exists a network of local TEDx conferences only when …
Specific regulatory mechanism or selection? Discussion of one hypothesis about the mechanisms of reproduction of interspecific hybrids of green frogs. Column for Kompyuterrа #110
...We observe two levels of selection here. Selection among different cell lineages within an individual affects the ability to form viable chromosome sets in gametes. Selection among individuals acts on the ability to produce normal gametes. And the third level …
Social Utopia: How an Unbiased, Ideology-Free Society Should Treat the Diversity of Human Sexuality. Column for Computerra #109
The individual norm is heterosexuality (and possibly bisexuality as well). The group norm is, in all likelihood, the presence of a certain proportion of bisexual and homosexual individuals. The social norm is non-interference by society and other citizens in matters …
May 2013. Possibly the Last Photographs Taken with My Camera...
Photographs taken shortly before I drowned my camera.
May 2013. Children
A few photographs of children