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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
wiley   +1 more source

A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
We evaluate whether a Neolithic engraved rock image at the Alta archaeological site in Finnmark, Norway – of a bird being held by a person – represents a Great Auk Pinguinus impennis. There are several thousand engraved animal figures at Alta, created between 5000 and 2000 years ago, in various hunting panoramas.
Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie
wiley   +1 more source

Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
wiley   +1 more source

Domestication During Restoration: Unintentional Selection During Eight Generations of Wild Seed Propagation Reduces Herkogamy, Dichogamy and Heterozygosity in Clarkia pulchella

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seed production on native seed farms has increased to meet the rising demand for plant material for restoration. Although these propagation efforts are necessary for restoration, cultivating wild populations may also result in unintentional selection and elicit evolutionary changes that mimic crop domestication, essentially turning these ...
Julie R. Etterson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary History and Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition in Domesticated Hops (Humulus lupulus L.)

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Humulus lupulus L., commonly known as hop, is a perennial crop grown worldwide and is well known for its pharmacological, commercial, and most importantly brewing applications. For hundreds of years, hop has undergone intense artificial selection, with over 250 cultivated varieties being developed worldwide, all displaying differences in key ...
Alexandra McElwee‐Adame   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

First metals discovery and development the sacral component phenomenon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is accentuated on the civilizational significance of the first industrial metals discovery, it reveals the prerequisites for the development of ores and the main stages of metals mastering connected with centuries-old experience of the ...
Biletskyi, V. S., Haiko, H.
core  

Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia aktasi in a wild bezoar goat (Capra aegagrus): Overlap with domestic goat strains

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
This study provides the first molecular detection of tick‐borne pathogens in Capra aegagrus. Genetic analysis reveals similarities between Babesia aktasi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains in bezoar and domestic goats, indicating potential pathogen exchange.
Aykut Zerek   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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