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Selfish Gene Theory Explains Oedipus Complex, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Selfish Gene Theory Explains Oedipus Complex, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Sigmund Freud famously placed what he called Oedipus complex at the center of his explanation of psychological and psychiatric problems. Freund's analysis was based on anecdotal evidence and intuition, not on solid experiments -- as a result, for a long time, many psychologists dismissed the universality of Freud's findings. However, lately, experiments seem to confirm that indeed men, on average, select wives who resemble their mothers, and women select husbands who resemble their mothers. In this paper, we provide a possible biological explanation for this observational phenomenon.
Attraction-Repulsion Forces Between Biological Cells: A Theoretical Explanation Of Empirical Formulas, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich
Attraction-Repulsion Forces Between Biological Cells: A Theoretical Explanation Of Empirical Formulas, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Biological calls attract and repulse each other: if they get too close to each other, they repulse, and if they get too far away from each other, they attract. There are empirical formulas that describe the dependence of the corresponding forces on the distance between the cells. In this paper, we provide a theoretical explanation for these empirical formulas.