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  2. Mate choice - Wikipedia

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    There are direct and indirect benefits of being the selective individual. [5] [6] [7] In most species, females are the choosy sex which discriminates among competitive males, [4] but there are several examples of reversed roles (see below).

  3. Biological interaction - Wikipedia

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    Interactions can be direct when physical contact is established or indirect, through intermediaries such as shared resources, territories, ecological services, metabolic waste, toxins or growth inhibitors. This type of relationship can be shown by net effect based on individual effects on both organisms arising out of relationship.

  4. Female intrasexual competition - Wikipedia

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    Whilst males may use direct forms of aggression during intrasexual competition [14] [15] females typically compete for access to desired mates through the use of indirect aggression. Unlike direct aggression which involves delivering harm face to face, [16] indirect aggression describes acts that are done circuitously, where an individual aims ...

  5. Boyle's law - Wikipedia

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    where P is the pressure of the gas, V is the volume of the gas, and k is a constant for a particular temperature and amount of gas.. Boyle's law states that when the temperature of a given mass of confined gas is constant, the product of its pressure and volume is also constant.

  6. Direct and indirect realism - Wikipedia

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    Direct realism, also known as naïve realism, argues we perceive the world directly. In the philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, direct or naïve realism, as opposed to indirect or representational realism, are differing models that describe the nature of conscious experiences; [1] [2] out of the metaphysical question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself ...

  7. Correlation - Wikipedia

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    The second one (top right) is not distributed normally; while an obvious relationship between the two variables can be observed, it is not linear. In this case the Pearson correlation coefficient does not indicate that there is an exact functional relationship: only the extent to which that relationship can be approximated by a linear relationship.

  8. Mutualism (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Fungi's relationship to plants in the form of mycelium evolved from parasitism and commensalism. Under certain conditions species of fungi previously in a state of mutualism can turn parasitic on weak or dying plants. [24] Likewise the symbiotic relationship of clown fish and sea anemones emerged from a commensalist relationship.

  9. Direct pathway - Wikipedia

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    In the direct pathway, the motor cortices send activating signals to the caudate and putamen (which together form the dorsal striatum). The cells of the direct pathway in the caudate and putamen that receive these signals are inhibitory and, once they become activated, send inhibitory signals to the GPi and SNpr and stop activity there.