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Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England [PDF]
, 2014 Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually “despotic” towards the poor. Such assumptions are highly questionable:
Zhang, Taisu
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Work Versus Force: Simultaneous Processes for Describing Interactions
Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving a unified description of interactions remains an open challenge in theoretical physics, which currently describes four fundamental forces. This situation may be viewed differently when interactions are formulated in terms of processes (work as actio) rather than forces (force as actio), not only at the macroscopic level but also at ...
Grit Kalies +2 more
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Classification and Description of "YOU" in Indonesian Related with "YOU (KAMU)” in Plural
Loquen, 2017 : Many forms of greeting in Indonesian language (twenty-three kinds) in the second pronoun (six kinds) and kinship terms (seventeen kinds) reflects many strata in Indonesian society that is "feudalistic" in which different languages such as the use of ...
Tatu Siti Rohbiah
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On the Origin of the Family [PDF]
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family.
Francesconi, Marco +2 more
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The Prospects for Family Business in Research Universities [PDF]
, 2011 Family business shows the promise of becoming a respected scholarly field in research universities. However, success is not a given. We inquire about its prospects, with reference to the sociology of science.
Miner, Anne S., Stewart, Alex
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli +6 more
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Kinship Terms in the Russian and Serbian Languages
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2013 Category of kinship taken in different aspects is the object of studies of different sciences: biology, sociology, geneology, ethnography, culturology, linguistics. Language data by all means, are of primarily importance in kinship research.
Milina Nikolich, N V Novospasskaya
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Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality [PDF]
Human groups maintain a high level of sociality despite a low level of relatedness among group members. The behavioral basis of this sociality remains in doubt. This paper reviews the evidence for an empirically identifiable form of prosocial behavior in
Herbert Gintis
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Patterns of spinal motion, kinematic spaces and the land‐to‐sea transition in carnivorans
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Using 3D reconstructions, we quantify intervertebral joint mobility to investigate how cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebral regions evolved distinct kinematic roles in pinnipeds. The findings reveal lineage‐specific adaptations for swimming and highlight the functional significance of vertebral joint flexibility in ecological transitions.
Juan Miguel Esteban +3 more
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Kinship metaphors in Swahili language and culture
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2018 Swahili kinship terms are highly polysemous and occur in many figurative meanings out of which some are fully conventionalized in language usage. The article focuses on a specific case of such extensions which metaphorically frames an unrelated person ...
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
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