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Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic Meanings of Phytonyms in the English and Ukrainian Languages [PDF]

, 2018
Tyshchenko, Nataliia
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Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta, Mateusz Psujek, Larissa M. Straffon, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that fungi have cognitive capacities, and even conscious experiences. While these arguments risk ushering in unproductive disputes about how words like “mind,” “cognitive,” “sentient,” and “conscious” should be used, paying close attention to key properties of fungal life can also be uncontroversially productive for ...
Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-Slavic and Slavic Interaction at Eastern Periphery of Slavic Expansion in Northeastern Europe (Y-Gene Pools of Volga-Oka Region). [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Adamov D, Shlykov A, Potanina A, Voronina M, Gorin I, Ponomarev G, Kabaev D, Chernyaeva L, Gavrilov A, Rusakov D, Pocheshkhova E, Zhur K, Prokhortchouk E, Goncharova N, Balanovska E.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient genomes give insight into 160,000 years of East Asian population dynamics and biological adaptation. [PDF]

Genome Biol
He G, Sun Y, Duan S, Luo L, Sun Q, Li B, Yun L, Liu C, Wang M.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A thousand years of Yiddish in the European arena [PDF]

, 2009
Katz, Dovid
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Holman LE, Bohmann K, Craig OE, Orton D, Pedersen MW, Tange Olsen M, Thurstan RH, Scourse J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source