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The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar of Olea Europaea L. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Abstract Seasonal cycles in plants and animals drive key timings of human practices in an agrosystem like the best time for harvest, planting, or pruning. Within the framework of historical phenological studies, we attempt a reconstruction of the olive (Olea europaea L.) phenology along millennia.
Ferrara V, Ingemark D.
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Gut microbiota in the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) shows stability across gestation. [PDF]
Microbiologyopen, 2023 The fecal microbiota of echidnas provides an opportunity for vertical transmission of microbes as both feces and eggs pass through the cloaca. Here, we characterize the gut/fecal microbiome of female short‐beaked echidnas and gain a better understanding of the changes that may occur in their microbiome as they go through pregnancy. We found the echidna
Buthgamuwa I +5 more
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Variation in air sac morphology and postcranial skeletal pneumatization patterns in the African grey parrot. [PDF]
J AnatThe avian lung‐air‐sac system invades much of the skeleton with epithelium‐lined extensions of their air‐filled spaces through a process called pneumatization. This study uses micro‐computed tomography scans of the African grey parrot to identify and describe: (1) intraspecific variations in air sac arrangement and (2) the location of the bony openings
Lawson AB +4 more
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Possible stellar asterisms carved on a protohistoric stone
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 10, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Chisel marks on a stone uncovered in Rupinpiccolo protohistoric hill fort from north‐eastern Italy were suggested to be a representation of the night sky (Bernardini et al. 2022 Documenta Praehistorica XLIX). The patterns of the 29 marks are analyzed here to establish if they reproduce popular stellar asterisms.
Paolo Molaro, Federico Bernardini
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Nietzsche on the good of cultural change
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 927-949, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper attributes to Nietzsche a theory of cultural development according to which pyramid societies—steeply hierarchical societies following a unified morality—systematically alternate with motley societies, which emerge when pyramid societies encounter other cultures or allow their strict mores to relax. Motley societies contain multiple
Rachel Cristy
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The Ancient Greek Datives in ‐essi: Contact or Independent Innovations?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 357-381, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The Ancient Greek datives in ‐essi have posed a longstanding challenge in Greek linguistics, with their traditional categorisation as ‘Aeolic’ but their widespread presence across Aeolic and non‐Aeolic regions. This article investigates the origin and diffusion of this trait, examining both the early Greek evidence (in particular the Lesbian ...
Marta Capano, Michele Bianconi
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In defense of epicycles: Embracing complexity in psychological explanations
Mind &Language, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 1208-1237, November 2023., 2023 Is formal simplicity a guide to learning in humans, as simplicity is said to be a guide to the acceptability of theories in science? Does simplicity determine the difficulty of various learning tasks? I argue that, similarly to how scientists sometimes preferred complex theories when this facilitated calculations, results from perception, learning and ...
Ansgar D. Endress
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Genealogies of Truth: Theology, Philosophy and History
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 708-727, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Modern Christian theology still seeks to escape from the historical constitution of truth. This not only contradicts the Incarnation, but has its own genealogical origins in a dubious loss of Christian philosophy as an integral enterprise. In general, genealogy can be seen as negative or positive.
John Milbank
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 221-243, August 2023., 2023 Summary Recent work in landscape archaeology has emphasized the importance of considering the experience of moving through landscapes and examining the place of burials within wider landscape contexts. This work recognizes that burial placement was often intended to create and curate experiences and meaning.
Tim Penn
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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