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Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye +6 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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Xujiayao Homo: A New Form of Large Brained Hominin in Eastern Asia
PaleoAnthropologyXujiayao, located in northern China, is an important paleoanthropological site because it dates to the late Middle Pleistocene (~200 ka - ~160 ka) and has a combination of hominin fossils, archaeology, and other vertebrate faunal traces.
Xiujie Wu, Christopher J Bae
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Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
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Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Annals of Human BiologyBackground: This study evaluates the fossil remains of South African hominins curated at the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (Wits University), the largest repository of human evolution assemblages in southern Africa.Aim: The aim of the study ...
Debra R. Bolter, Bernhard Zipfel
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This paper asks how LLM‐based systems can produce text that is taken as contextually appropriate by humans without having seen text in its broader context. To understand how this is possible, context and co‐text have to be distinguished. Co‐text is input to LLMs during training and at inference as well as the primary resource of sense‐making ...
Ole Pütz
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