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Domesticating robots, domesticating language: The hylomorphic paradox of “openness” in large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how openness is interpreted in human–LLM interaction through an ethnographic study of a robotics experiment. Focusing on an episode in which a robot produced an unexpected utterance, I analyze how engineers classify the output as inconsequential noise.
Raffaele Andrea Buono
wiley   +1 more source

sedimix: a workflow for the analysis of hominin nuclear DNA sequences from sediments. [PDF]

Bioinformatics
Xu J, Zavala EI, Moorjani P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Computing consensus: Language ideological work in LLM‐assisted deliberative democracy

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how the digital platform Polis and its experiments with large language models (LLMs) reconfigure democratic participation through a particular vision of consensus. Through analysis of media coverage of Polis and developers' public discussions of the platform, I argue that developers reframe consensus from a discursive ...
Janet E. Connor
wiley   +1 more source

Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness. [PDF]

PLoS Biol
Püschel TA, Hurwitz RM, Venditti C.
europepmc   +1 more source

BRINGING BACK FAMILIAR FORMS: RECYCLING QUINA SCRAPERS AT THE LATE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC QESEM CAVE, ISRAEL

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 250-277, August 2026.
Summary This study presents a technological analysis of 18 old patinated scrapers and spalls, mostly of Quina technology, that were recycled into new scrapers of the same type at the Late Lower Palaeolithic site of Qesem Cave, Israel (420–200 kyr). Recycling scrapers into the same Quina and demi‐Quina types offers a rare, controlled opportunity to ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Bossoms Mesa A, Essel E, Jáuregui L, Galtier A, Zavala EI, Nota K, Szymanski M, Zorn J, Gomes H, Nash GH, Rosina P, Lattao V, Oosterbeek L, Carpetudo C, Almeida NA, de Las Heras C, Fatás P, Prada A, Díaz-González LM, Sánchez-Moral ME, Martínez Villa A, Menéndez Fernández M, García Arranz JJ, von Petzinger G, Cantalejo P, Fernández LE, Ramos-Muñoz J, Fernández Sánchez DS, Mira HA, Muñoz Fernández E, Montes-Barquín R, Ontañón R, Kelso J, Prüfer K, Vernot B, Hajdinjak M, Shao Q, Garcês S, Collado Giraldo H, Meyer M.   +39 more
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An identity for the inscrutable Homo habilis. [PDF]

Anat Rec (Hoboken)
Tattersall I.
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A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Delagnes A, Bertran P, Gravina B, Santos F, Sanchez OS, Galland A, Brenet M, Hailu HB, Araya BG, Sissay FM, Woldetsadik MG, Boisserie JR.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa). [PDF]

PLoS One
Marin-Monfort MD, Shaw CL, Natalio F, Grossman L, Andrews P, Campos J, García-Morato S, Pereira JM, Pons A, Chazan M, Horwitz LK, Fernández-Jalvo Y.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Earliest evidence of hominin bipedalism in <i>Sahelanthropus tchadensis</i>. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Williams SA, Wang X, Araiza I, Guerra JS, Meyer MR, Spear JK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source