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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion. [PDF]

Nature
Olalde I, Altena E, Bourgeois Q, Fokkens H, Amkreutz L, Baetsen S, Deguilloux MF, Fichera A, Flas D, Gandini F, Kegler JF, Kootker LM, van der Leije J, Leijnse K, van der Linde C, Kooijmans LL, Lauwerier R, Miller R, Molthof H, Noiret P, Raemaekers DCM, Rivollat M, Smits L, Stewart JR, Ten Anscher T, Toussaint M, Callan K, Cheronet O, Frost T, Iliev L, Mah M, Micco A, Oppenheimer J, Patterson I, Qiu L, Soos G, Workman JN, Edwards CJ, Lazaridis I, Mallick S, Patterson N, Rohland N, Richards MB, Pinhasi R, Haak W, Pala M, Reich D.   +46 more
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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An archaeo-metabolomics approach for identifying cedar tar in archaeological samples: differentiating plant products and production processes. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Huber B, Pollet O, Kandil SB, Graen D, Spanneut L, Giddings Vassão D, Mas-Normand L, Joliot C, Roche E, Burri S, Durand A, Regert M, Fernandes R, Pickett JA, Culioli G, Devièse T.   +15 more
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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A 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman and a goose marks symbolic innovations in Southwest Asia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Davin L, Munro ND, Grosman L.
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The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
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The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism. [PDF]

Cell Genom
Han Y, Hu S, Liu K, Xu X, Li Z, Doherty S, Jamieson AE, Manin A, Martins SG, Yang M, Yu C, Wang J, Wu Z, Chen C, Han S, Lu D, Peng L, Wu X, Fan W, Cai Q, Cui Z, Yuan J, Li Z, Liu Y, Li Z, Liu Z, Ma Q, Shao J, Sun Z, Xing F, Yang W, Yang S, Yue L, Zhang P, Wang W, Zhang-Zheng H, Zhuang Y, Sun X, Pan Y, Wu X, Frantz LAF, Yu H, Alves JM, Larson G, Luo SJ.   +44 more
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The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Will M, Sommer C, Möller GHD, Botha GA, Blessing MA, Msimanga L, Mazel A, Val A, Venditti F, Riedesel S.   +9 more
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