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Glacial history of Southernmost South America

Quaternary Research, 1976
In southernmost South America, an incomplete radiometrically dated glacial chronology has been obtained by K–Ar dating for the interval 3.5-1 MY ago, and a more detailed chronology by C-14 dating for the last 25,000 years, with some older minimal ages. The first major glaciation was about 3.5 MY ago during the middle Pliocene. Little is yet known about
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A History of Anesthesia in South America

2014
Before the discovery of anesthesia, clergy and shamans used opium, herbal extracts, and alcohol to diminish surgical pain. Infection and mortality were great. By 1847, ether anesthesia was used in Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela, and in 1848, in Chile. By 1850, chloroform displaced ether. Surgeons gave or directed anesthetic delivery by
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History and Prospect of Muslims in South America

Social Indicators Research, 2013
The birth of Islam over fourteen centuries ago was a monumental event in human history with an everlasting effect on humanity. For centuries researchers contemplated on the growth and distribution of Muslims throughout the World. The purpose of this manuscript is to present a reliable estimate of the Muslim population in South America since the ...
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Evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2 in South America

2022
This is not the first time that humankind has been targeted by a coronavirus. The history of repeated introductions of animal viruses into human populations, resulting in disease outbreaks, suggests that future similar pandemics are inevitable. Therefore, understanding the possible molecular origin and ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 will provide ...
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Origins and colonization history of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in South America

Molecular Ecology, 2010
AbstractThe dynamics of dissemination of the environmental human pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus are uncertain. The O3:K6 clone was restricted to Asia until its detection along the Peruvian coasts and in northern Chile in 1997 in phase with the arrival of El Niño waters.
Ansede Bermejo, Juan, Gavilán, Ronnie G., Triñanes, Joaquín, Espejo Torres, Romilio, Martínez Urtaza, Jaime   +4 more
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Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America

National Identities, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, Vivek Bald depicts the lives of the earliest Indian immigrants to America at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America

Contemporary South Asia, 2014
Vivek Bald writes a rich history of a forgotten immigrant community in the USA – the Bengali American, in the book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America.
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Reinterpreting the economic and social history of Spanish South America

Colonial Latin American Review, 1995
Haciendas and ‘Ayllus’: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Herbert S. Klein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 230. Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society and Politics under Bourbon Rule. By Anthony McFarlane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 399.
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History of the native population of South America

2016
The main research on the historical demography of the native populations in South America was developed in the late 1970s, in a context of new questions and theories on Andean history (Murra 1975; Sánchez Albornoz 1978; Cook 1981). This increase of new ideas was possible thanks to the fact that groups of intellectuals coming from different fields, such
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Early History and Biogeography of South America’s Extinct Land Mammals

1980
South America’s peculiar extinct mammalian fauna has been a source of fascination since the late 1700’s when a Pleistocene skeleton of the giant ground sloth Megatherium, later described by Cuvier (1796, 1812), was unearthed and sent to Spain by the Dominican Manuel Torres.
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