Question

Explain what the “small worlds hypothesis” means and provide an example of a disease threat (to either humans or agriculture) that emerged over the last 5 years and that illustrates this hypothesis​

Answer 1

1. textabstractThis paper examines the small worldhypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of is

2. [GADV]-protein world hypothesis on the origin of life.

   Ikehara, Kenji

   2014-12-01

   RNA world hypothesis is widely accepted still now, as an idea by which the origin of life might be explained. But, there are many weak points in the hypothesis. In contrast, I have proposed a more reasonable [GADV]-protein world hypothesis or GADV hypothesis, suggesting that life originated from the protein world, which was formed by pseudo-replication of [GADV]-proteins. In this communication, I will discuss about the origin of life from the point of view of the GADV hypothe