The Governor of Saratov stolnik Danila Varfolomeevich Khitrovo (1659–1660) [PDF]
The article for the first time presents the biography of the Saratov governor Danila Varfolomeevich Khitrovo, as well as brief information about his ancestors, the Bolkhov landowners. D. V.
Rabinovich, Yakov N.
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Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages [PDF]
In recent years, South Americanist linguists have embraced computational phylogenetic methods to resolve the numerous outstanding questions about the genealogi- cal relationships among the languages of the continent.
Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia +1 more
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Joseph Mitchell and Names: A Postscript
Recent installments of Joseph Mitchell’s uncompleted memoir, published in The New Yorker, strongly support and extend claims made by Michael Adams in “‘The Course of a Particular’: Names and Narrative in the Works of Joseph Mitchell,” published in Names
Michael Adams
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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology [PDF]
We present an algebraic account of the Tongan kinship terminology (TKT) that provides an insightful journey into the fabric of Tongan culture. We begin with the ethnographic account of a social event.
Bennardo, Giovanni, Read, Dwight
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Introduction. The main purpose of the publication is to recreate members of the Boyar duma and palace administration, to reconstruct the high-ranking structure of the top of the Sovereign court during the period of Boyar rulling on the basis of all ...
Alexander L. Korzinin
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Genealogy, Validation, and Basis of the Narrative of the Order of Revelation According to Jābir ibn Zayd [PDF]
The list of the order of revelation according to Jābir ibn Zayd represents one of the notable hadith-based chronologies in the dating of the Qurʾān. A majority of Qurʾānic scholars, when reporting or utilizing this order, primarily reference al-Itqān by ...
Saeedeh Jannesari +2 more
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A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies [PDF]
Several approaches have been proposed to classify populations into ethnic groups using people's names, as an alternative to ethnicity self-identification information when this is not available.
Mateos, P
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Genealogical Distance as a Diversity Estimate in Evolutionary Algorithms
The evolutionary edit distance between two individuals in a population, i.e., the amount of applications of any genetic operator it would take the evolutionary process to generate one individual starting from the other, seems like a promising estimate ...
Belzner, Lenz, Gabor, Thomas
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Hierarchy Theory of Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Some Epistemic Bridges, Some Conceptual Rifts [PDF]
Contemporary evolutionary biology comprises a plural landscape of multiple co-existent conceptual frameworks and strenuous voices that disagree on the nature and scope of evolutionary theory.
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