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Similar or Different? Configurations of Authenticity Across Museum Types

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Authenticity is traditionally regarded as playing a crucial role in museums, science centers, and memorials. However, despite this fact, authenticity has very different meanings in different (institutional) settings. This complicates shared communications across museum practices.
S. Schwan, S. Bahnsen, C. Eschenfelder, B. Garsoffky, P. Gerjets, M. Gorman, C. Hampp, L. Kampschulte, O. Köller, C. Kuchler, A. M. Land‐Zandstra, S. Moser, T. Moussouri, P. Pierroux, C. Sichau, I. Specht, M. Storksdieck, M. Xanthoudaki, D. Lewalter   +18 more
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Modelling compressive loading in large‐bodied mammals reveals distinct biomechanical strategies in proboscidean humeri

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Graviportal proboscideans differ in limb morphology, adopting slender or more robust long bone morphotypes. Finite element analyses (FEA) on extant and extinct taxa reveal functional differences between morphotypes, with robust humeri exhibiting lower peak stress under neutral and off‐axis loading.
Nicolas Ferdinand Wagner, Narimane Chatar, Jesse James Hennekam   +2 more
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African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the carpals of knuckle‐walking taxa appear relatively specialized.
Laura E. Hunter, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caley M. Orr, Biren A. Patel, Zeresenay Alemseged   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paleogenomics retraces the ancient population history of Southwestern East Asia for the past 12 000 years. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Bai F, Zhang X, Fu Y, Lu H, Li F, Bennett EA, Pei S, Cao P, Dai Q, Liu F, Feng X, Zhang M, Wang W, Li F, Zhang G, Ping W, Liu T, Fu Q.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 6, Page 2839-2873, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
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The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology

Located on the campus of The Webb Schools, the Raymond M. Alf Museum is the only paleontology museum in the nation located on a high school campus. The Museum’s mission is to serve Southern California as an educational resource, to act as a center of ...

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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 6, Page 2920-2942, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl, Alex S. Wegmann, Nick D. Holmes, Caitlin E. Andrews, Gérard Rocamora, Simon Ducatez, James C. Russell   +6 more
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Computed tomography reveals multiple origins of extreme caudal vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 249, Issue 6, Page 1239-1289, December 2026.
Here, we present novel CT scan data of caudal vertebrae of six Middle–Late Jurassic sauropods, representing several eusauropod lineages. We synthesise these new data with a comprehensive critical appraisal of purported external and internal evidence for caudal vertebral PSP in Sauropodomorpha.
Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Stephen F. Poropat, Patrick Asbach, Philip D. Mannion   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Homo Conundrum: Challenges and Potential Solutions. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Zanolli C, Alba DM, Caley T, Cazenave M, Crevecoeur I, de la Torre I, Delagnes A, Delezene LK, Détroit F, Joannes-Boyau R, Le Cabec A, Lüdecke T, Margvelashvili A, Musiba C, Neubauer S, Sahle Y, Schrenk F, Skinner MM, Smith KT, Urciuoli A, Villmoare B, Wood B, Kullmer O.   +22 more
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Digital range of motion analysis is sensitive to subjective steps in joint model construction

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 249, Issue 6, Page 1327-1344, December 2026.
A systematic sensitivity analysis of a six degree‐of‐freedom range of motion (ROM) analysis workflow was conducted to evaluate how variation in the subjective steps of the reference pose assembly affects the determined viable poses in the ankle and tarsometatarsophalangeal III joints of Guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).
R. J. Lowes, A. Jannel, B. W. Griffin, T. L. Prescott, P. L. Falkingham   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source