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Reply to Peng et al.: Chicken tessellation requires more pieces. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Peters J, Fuller DQ, Irving-Pease EK, Lebrasseur O, Best J, Smallman R, Larson G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Social Stratification Without Genetic Differentiation at the Xisima Site in the Late Shang Dynasty. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Tang J, Wang R, Wei Q, He H, Deng C, Tao L, Mao X, Ma H, Wang X, Zou X, Yang X, Zhang Q, Wu Q, Guo Y, Wang CC.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck, Matthew Rive, Annabelle Rogers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Alex B, Ji J, Flad R.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
wiley   +1 more source

A bone tool used by neanderthal for flaying carcasses at the Abri du Maras (France). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Doyon L, Hernando JM, Moncel MH, Richard M, Arnaud V, d'Errico F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

A Japanese dentist immigrant described by the writer, Chihei Nakamura, during the Japanese colonial period. [PDF]

J Dent Sci
Cheng FC, Wang LH, Chang WH, Chiang CP.
europepmc   +1 more source