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Estimating genetic variance contributed by a quantitative trait locus: A random model approach. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol, 2022
Wang S, Xie F, Xu S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

Extraordinary siblings: Mole rats, marmosets, and Radcliffe-Brown. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jones D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Oenpelli Kunwinjku Kinship Terminologies and Marriage Practices

, 2001
M. Harvey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
wiley   +1 more source

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, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2019
Rácz P, Passmore S, Sheard C, Jordan FM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

'Some parts of the consent form are written using complex scientific language': community perspectives on informed consent for research with pregnant and lactating mothers in Uganda. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Twimukye A, Nabukenya S, Kawuma AN, Bayigga J, Nakijoba R, Asiimwe SP, Byenume F, Ojara FW, Waitt C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fertility as a process of social exchange [PDF]

By marrying and raising children, parents participate in a system of gift-exchange in which the gifts in question are human lives, and the parties to the exchange are the kinship groups recognised in the society concerned.
Patrick Heady
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