These findings show that intralocus sexual conflict over a physical trait, such as height, can have an effect on Darwinian fitness in the human species.
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"It's a dirty little secret in high tech that superior marketing and inferior technology will beat out superior technology and inferior marketing every time, " she writes, " and that other factors, aside from Darwinian fitness, determine which technologies and which companies thrive or perish ."
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Humans, however, do possess reproductive independence so they can give birth to offspring without the need of a " queen ", and in fact humans enjoy their maximum level of Darwinian fitness only when they look after themselves and their offspring, while finding innovative ways to use the societies they live in for their own benefit.
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Other studies concern the genetics of the Aymara tribe in Chile and Bolivia, radiation carcinogenesis in humans, mutations, the genetics and epidemiology of chronic diseases, acheiropodia in Brazil, the adaptation of human populations to high altitudes, the measurement of Darwinian fitness in humans, the genetic structure of human populations, the genetics of night vision, circadian heart rate rhythmicity, the genetics of mental retardation, and cancer risks.
