Currently, the origins ofin vitrocell lines are highly biased towards humans.Around 75% of the total number of established cell lines are from Hominidae origin(96,862/128,799) and over 97% are of mammalian origin (126,033/128,799) (Bairoch2018) (Figure 1). However, mammals represent only 0.4% (1.3% when excluding theInsecta taxon) of the extant identified metazoan evolution (Zhang 2013; Wilson …
Political demography, or the systematic study of population changeand politics, public policies and polities, sees population dynamics (struc-ture and change) as one of the main drivers of politics at the meso-and macro-level. As an approach, it can be defined as the study of thedynamics in the size, composition and distribution of populations andtheir effects on political and policy processes.…