Ethologists in the Kindergarten: Natural Behavior, Social Rank, and the Search for the "Innate" in Early Human Ethology (1960s-1970s). [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2022 Abstract During the 1970s, ethologists at the German Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen started a series of research projects at several regional kindergartens in search of natural predispositions in human behavior. This so‐called “Kindergarten Project” became one of the pillars of research activity at the newly founded ...
Odenwald J.
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Oral-based Bible translation: A contextualised model for the nomadic Himba people of southern Africa
In die Skriflig, 2021 Historically, the work of Bible translation has involved multiple disciplines in a commitment to translate Scripture with integrity and faithfulness to the original Greek and Hebrew texts.
Karen J. Floor
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 179, Issue 1, Page 104-117, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Objectives The predominance of Bantu languages in sub‐Saharan Africa has sparked a large debate over the processes through which they came to disperse over time and space—the “Bantu expansion.” The overall genetic similarity shown by Bantu‐speaking populations indicates that movement of people occurred too, but the extent of the correlation ...
Miguel González‐Santos +10 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 477-495, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The article is dedicated to the loving memory of !A|’xuni. The Ju|’hoansi of east central Namibia sometimes refer to the state as a whiteman and to the whiteman as a /’hun (steenbok). In this article, I contextualize these naming practices by tracing the history of colonial encounters on the fringes of the Western Kalahari through a small ...
Velina Ninkova
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Aristotle's dream: Evolutionary and neural aspects of aesthetic communication in the arts
PsyCh Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 224-243, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Art in general perception is something that transcends our notion of reality. In view of the earliest findings in Paleolithic sites, their abstract appearance and sometimes ceremonial context increased their status of a secret language. Even the first figurative cave paintings remained in a context of an encoded semantic whole.
Christa Sütterlin, Xinchi Yu
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Genetic heritage of the Baphuthi highlights an over-ethnicized notion of "Bushman" in the Maloti-Drakensberg, southern Africa. [PDF]
Am J Hum Genet, 2023 Daniels RJ +11 more
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Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2023 Oliveira S +4 more
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Oral microbiome homogeneity across diverse human groups from southern Africa: first results from southwestern Angola and Zimbabwe. [PDF]
BMC Microbiol, 2023 Araújo V +5 more
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Time to diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in indigenous peoples: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Infect Dis, 2023 Varughese M, Heffernan C, Li MY, Long R.
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The Genes of Freedom: Genome-Wide Insights into Marronage, Admixture and Ethnogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2021 Almeida J +6 more
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