Corpse disposal is an essential adaptation to social life. This behaviour promotes nest hygiene and prevents the spread of pathogens in the colony of social insects. The current study verified the corpse management in two ...

Cinema takes part in the tradition of rites for evoking the dead that are also rites of separation from their corpses. Once the image is formed, the corpse can be buried. Sometimes this image is a tombstone, others a death ...

Different narratives in Colombia show how the apparition of mutilated and unidentified corpses in rivers–as an outcome of decades of war and violence–has reorganised national geography, as well as the affective relationships ...

Social insects display a range of sophisticated behaviors to deal with cadavers, which together act to guarantee the health and social homeostasis of their colonies. In termites, cadaver management involves an entire ...

A presença de cadáveres no interior dos ninhos dos insetos sociais pode propiciar a contaminação com patógenos e prejudicar a integridade da colônia. O comportamento higiênico frente a cadáveres é imprescindível na manutenção ...

Background: Disaster victim identification (DVI) represents one of the most difficult challenges in forensic sciences, and subsequent DNA typing is essential. Collected samples for DNA-based human identification are usually ...

En este artículo reflexiono sobre la relación entre cadáver e identidad en procesos de identificación forense y restitución de cadáveres NN, a partir del trabajo de investigación realizado junto a expertos forenses, ...