HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER AS VESTIGES OF EVOLUTION

Humour and laughter as vestiges of evolution

This paper argues in favour of considering humour and laughter as embodied signs of the ancient, sympathetic, figurative mode of the human mind, still working with us in dance, music, singing and literary activity.Starting from steady evolutionary provisos, both the continuity and the departing lines between nonhuman vocalisations and human laughte

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Analysis of MicroRNA Cargo in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles from HIV-Infected Individuals with Pulmonary Hypertension

The risk of developing pulmonary hypertension (PH) in people living with HIV is at least 300-fold higher than in the general population, and illicit drug use further potentiates the development of HIV-associated PH.The relevance of extracellular vesicles (EVs) containing both coding as well as non-coding RNAs in PH secondary to HIV infection and dr

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