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Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2015
South America has a complex demographic history shaped by multiple migration and admixture events in pre- and post-colonial times. Settled over 14,000 years ago by Native Americans, South America has experienced migrations of European and African ...
Julian R Homburger, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Christopher R Gignoux, Dominic Nelson, Elena Sanchez, Patricia Ortiz-Tello, Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Eduardo Acevedo-Vasquez, Pedro Miranda, Carl D Langefeld, Simon Gravel, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Carlos D Bustamante   +12 more
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Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift [PDF]

Solid Earth, 2013
The South Atlantic rift basin evolved as a branch of a large Jurassic–Cretaceous intraplate rift zone between the African and South American plates during the final break-up of western Gondwana. While the relative motions between South America and Africa
C. Heine, J. Zoethout, R. D. Müller
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The palms of South America: diversity, distribution and evolutionary history

Revista Peruana de Biología, 2014
This article presents an inventory of South American palms including 457 species and 50 genera. The distribution of palms within seven phytogeographical entities is analyzed. Factors which influence the evolution of palms in South America are discussed.
Jean-Christophe Pintaud, Gloria Galeano, Henrik Balslev, Rodrigo Bernal, Finn Borchsenius, Evandro Ferreira, Jean-Jacques de Granville, Kember Mejía, Betty Millán, Mónica Moraes, Larry Noblick, Fred W. Stauffer, Francis Kahn   +12 more
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Genomic history of coastal societies from eastern South America

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023
AbstractSambaqui (shellmound) societies are among the most intriguing archaeological phenomena in pre-colonial South America, extending from approximately 8,000 to 1,000 years before present (yr bp) across 3,000 km on the Atlantic coast. However, little is known about their connection to early Holocene hunter-gatherers, how this may have contributed to
Ferraz, Tiago, Suarez Villagran, Ximena, Nägele, Kathrin, Radzevičiūtė, Rita, Barbosa Lemes, Renan, Salazar-García, Domingo, Wesolowski, Verônica, Lopes Alves, Marcony, Bastos, Murilo, Rapp Py-Daniel, Anne, Pinto Lima, Helena, Mendes Cardoso, Jéssica, Estevam, Renata, Liryo, Andersen, Guimarães, Geovan, Figuti, Levy, Eggers, Sabine, Plens, Cláudia, Azevedo Erler, Dionne Miranda, Valadares Costa, Henrique Antônio, da Silva Erler, Igor, Koole, Edward, Henriques, Gilmar, Solari, Ana, Martin, Gabriela, Serafim Monteiro da Silva, Sérgio Francisco, Kipnis, Renato, Müller, Letícia Morgana, Ferreira, Mariane, Carvalho Resende, Janine, Chim, Eliane, da Silva, Carlos Augusto, Borella, Ana Claudia, Tomé, Tiago, Müller Plumm Gomes, Lisiane, Barros Fonseca, Diego, Santos da Rosa, Cassia, de Moura Saldanha, João Darcy, Costa Leite, Lúcio, Cunha, Claudia, Viana, Sibeli Aparecida, Ozorio Almeida, Fernando, Klokler, Daniela, Fernandes, Henry Luydy Abraham, Talamo, Sahra, Deblasis, Paulo, Mendonça de Souza, Sheila, de Paula Moraes, Claide, Elias Oliveira, Rodrigo, Hünemeier, Tábita, Strauss, André, Posth, Cosimo   +51 more
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Five new malformed trilobites from Cambrian and Ordovician deposits from the Natural History Museum [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Injured trilobites present insight into how a completely extinct group of arthropods responded to traumatic experiences, such as failed predation and moulting complications.
Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith
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Melite Civitas Romana in 3D: Virtualization Project of the Archaeological Park and Museum of the Domus Romana of Rabat, Malta

Open Archaeology, 2021
The archaeological site of the Domus Romana in Rabat, Malta was excavated almost 100 years ago yielding artefacts from the various phases of the site. The Melite Civitas Romana project was designed to investigate the domus, which may have been the home ...
Tanasi Davide, Hassam Stephan, Kingsland Kaitlyn, Trapani Paolo, King Matthew, Calì Denise   +5 more
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Phylogeny and biogeography of the carnivorous plant family Sarraceniaceae. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The carnivorous plant family Sarraceniaceae comprises three genera of wetland-inhabiting pitcher plants: Darlingtonia in the northwestern United States, Sarracenia in eastern North America, and Heliamphora in northern South America. Hypotheses concerning
Aaron M Ellison, Elena D Butler, Emily Jean Hicks, Robert F C Naczi, Patrick J Calie, Charles D Bell, Charles C Davis   +6 more
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Evolutionary history of partible paternity in lowland South America [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010
Partible paternity, the conception belief that more than one man can contribute to the formation of a fetus, is common in lowland South America and characterized by nonexclusive mating relationships and various institutionalized forms of recognition and investment by multiple cofathers.
Robert S, Walker, Mark V, Flinn, Kim R, Hill   +2 more
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Cycling in South America, 1880-1920

Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 2020
Historians have tended to ignore the South American experience of cycling. The continent’s diverse history of sports has been effaced by a popular and academic focus on soccer.
Matthew Brown
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Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America [PDF]

Cell, 2018
نبلغ عن الحمض النووي القديم على مستوى الجينوم من 49 فردًا يشكلون أربعة مقاطع زمنية متوازية في بليز والبرازيل وجبال الأنديز الوسطى والمخروط الجنوبي، ويعود تاريخ كل منها إلى ما لا يقل عن 9000 سنة مضت. انتشر سكان الأجداد المشتركون بسرعة من واحد فقط من الفرعين الأولين اللذين ساهما في الأمريكيين الأصليين اليوم.
Cosimo Posth, Nathan Nakatsuka, Iosif Lazaridis, Pontus Skoglund, Swapan Mallick, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Nadin Rohland, Kathrin Nägele, Nicole Adamski, Emilie Bertolini, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Alan Cooper, Brendan J. Culleton, Tiago Ferraz, Matthew Ferry, Anja Furtwängler, Wolfgang Haak, Kelly M. Harkins, Thomas K. Harper, Tábita Hünemeier, Ann Marie Lawson, Bastien Llamas, Megan Michel, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Jonas Oppenheimer, Nick Patterson, Stephan Schiffels, Jakob Sedig, Kristin Stewardson, Sahra Talamo, Chuan‐Chao Wang, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mark Hübbe, Katerina Harvati, A Delaunay, Judith Beier, Michael Francken, Peter Kaulicke, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Kurt Rademaker, Willa R. Trask, Mark Robinson, Said M. Gutierrez, Keith M. Prufer, Domingo C. Salazar‐García, Eliane Nunes Chim, Lisiane Müller Plumm Gomes, Marcony Lopes Alves, Andersen Líryo, Mariana Inglez, Rodrigo Elias Oliveira, Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo, Alberto Barioni, Verônica Wesolowski, Nahuel A. Scheifler, Mario A. Rivera, Cláudia Regina Plens, Pablo G. Messineo, Levy Figuti, Daniel Corach, Clara Scabuzzo, Sabine Eggers, Paulo DeBlasis, Markus Reindel, César Méndez, Gustavo G. Politis, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Douglas J. Kennett, André Strauss, Lars Fehren‐Schmitz, Johannes Krause, David Reich   +71 more
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