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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Last year, we challenged the view that large‐bodied theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex resembled primates in cognition and behavior, a proposition made by Herculano‐Houzel in 2023. More recently, Jensen et al. have criticized our work on this topic, raising methodological and conceptual issues.
Kai R. Caspar +5 more
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Écrire des fictions « vraies »
Communication, 2022 To what extent can fiction contribute to analyses in the social sciences? Are narrative techniques compatible with the epistemology of social science disciplines? Does the imaginary shape how we understand the world? If so, how?
Pierre Lascoumes
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents an integrative approach to chronic disease and disability in a Portuguese nun who died in 1779. The aim is to interpret her condition by combining osteopathological and burial context evidence with written sources. It offers a concise example of how bringing these sources together can enhance pathological interpretation and
Nathalie Antunes‐Ferreira
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Ipazia: reinterpretazioni teatrali e romanzesche francesi del ventesimo secolo
Itinera, 2012 The fictions about Ipazia aim to answer the questions that history left unanswered. The authors create their own Ipazia according to the rules of the literature genre they choose, or to the characteristics they want to highlight.
Adeline Thulard
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Markets, Systemic Risk, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis [PDF]
, 2008 The recent subprime mortgage meltdown is undermining financial market stability and has the potential to cause a true systemic breakdown, collapsing the world\u27s financial systems like a row of dominoes.
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Many plant species worldwide are struggling to regenerate due to the ongoing effects of climate change. These effects appear to be further exacerbated by the loss of keystone megafauna, which were important seed dispersers. By identifying the traits commonly seen in seeds spread by modern elephants, it is possible to predict which species likely ...
Andrew J. Tighe
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Why all those spines? Anachronistic defences in the Didiereoideae against now extinct lemurs
South African Journal of Science, 2013 Plants evolve physical defences, such as spines, against browsing herbivores. However, in some cases, these defences may be anachronistic because the principal consumers of protected parts of the plant are extinct.
Brooke E. Crowley, Laurie R. Godfrey
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Education, Globalisation and the Role of Comparative Education [PDF]
, 2003 Comparative education has traditionally meant the study of national education systems. But how far is this approach valid today? Doesn’t the ‘decline’ of the nation state make national systems obsolete?
Green, Andy
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Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in \u3cem\u3eCamposcape\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2012 Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism.
Sluis, Ageeth
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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