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Hitchwiki is "a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers". [1] It is an international exchange for information about hitchhiking in many countries, and contains specific tips, for example, for hitchhiking out of the large cities, general information about equipment, safety and strategies to quickly and efficiently hitchhike.
Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free.
A hitchhiker mutation (or passenger mutation in cancer biology) may itself be neutral, advantageous, or deleterious. [ 7 ] Recombination can interrupt the process of genetic hitchhiking, ending it before the hitchhiking neutral or deleterious allele becomes fixed or goes extinct. [ 6 ]
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Cultural hitchhiking has been proposed as a cause for reduced genetic diversity at certain loci in prehistoric Homo sapiens, dolphins, killer whales, and sperm whales. [1] Cultural hitchhiking is a significant hypothesis because it investigates the relationship between population genetics and culture. By understanding how social behavior can ...
Airhitch was a user-run system for hitchhiking on commercial airliners. It was started by Robert Segelbaum in 1969. [1] People, who travel in this way, generally refer to themselves as Airhitchers. Most airhitchers fly between the United States and Western Europe.
hitchBOT was a Canadian hitchhiking robot created by professors David Harris Smith of McMaster University and Frauke Zeller of Toronto Metropolitan University in 2013. [1] [2] [3] It gained international attention for successfully hitchhiking across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but in 2015 its attempt to hitchhike across the United States ended when it was stripped, dismembered, and ...
Hitchgathering is the name of a series of international hitchhiking gatherings that are held in Europe and Northern America since 2008. [1] The first European Hitchgathering was initiated as The Project 888. It took place under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, on 8 August 2008.