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Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Cicero’s Critique of Reason

open access: yesContemporary Social Sciences, 2020
In contemporary thinking, “reason” has become synonymous with “correctness” to the extent that it is even capable of prescribing laws to nature. Ancient philosophers, including Plato and Cicero, offered a holistic, profound, and clear understanding of ...
Cheng Zhimin
doaj   +1 more source

Selected reading from Treatise on Friendship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Course reading ebook, adapted by Ian D. Dunkle from Project Gutenberg’s Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by E.S.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors as Tools for Improving Market Efficiency: A Study on Equity Misvaluation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated whether superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices enhance corporate value and market efficiency under various economic theories. Using a multi‐country panel of 31 economies from 2015 to 2022, we find that both ESG performance and disclosure improve intrinsic value and mitigate equity misvaluation ...
Xinyu Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past three decades, Van Gelder's dynamical hypothesis has been instrumental in reconceptualizing the ways in which perception‐action‐cognition unfolds over time and in context. Here, I examine how the dynamical approach has enriched the theoretical understanding of social dynamics within cognitive science, with a particular focus on ...
Alexandra Paxton
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhetorical Implications of Clementia in Cicero’s Caesarian Speeches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Cicero’s Caesarian speeches were delivered in 46-45 B.C. to Caesar after his victories in the Civil War. Caesar faced a number of critical issues as he dealt with the political and social aftermath of the years after 49 B.C., including what to do with ...
Rozeboom, Aaron
core   +2 more sources

Civil Procedure as a Critical Discussion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This Article develops a model for analyzing legal dispute resolution systems as systems for argumentation. Our model meshes two theories of argument conceived centuries apart: contemporary argumentation theory and classical stasis theory. In this Article,
Larson, Brian N., Provenzano, Susan E.
core   +2 more sources

Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. William T. Stearn. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1966. xiv, 566pp.($14.75) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Excerpt: As W. T. Stearn reminds us in the preface to this attractive and welcome work, the realm of literature which a knowledge of botanical Latin opens to botanists is a strange barbarous place for classicists; invited into it as an interpreter, a ...
Wilkinson, R S
core   +3 more sources

Warming‐Mediated Decreases in Nectar Quality Translate Into Lower Energy Reserves of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology Communications, EarlyView.
Warming caused a significant decrease in monarch fat mass, likely due to an observed reduction in sucrose concentration caused by warming of the nectar. Since sucrose fuels fall migration and overwintering, our results suggest climate warming may reduce migration success and overwinter survival.
Katherine Peel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family functioning following a brief, virtual emotion‐focused family therapy intervention for children's mental health

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
This study presents the first evidence that brief emotion‐focused family therapy (EFFT) is associated with change at the family level in the area of family functioning; a construct that is also associated with pandemic disruption, family size, parent psychological distress, and parenting stress.
Laura Colucci   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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