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Travelling the Two‐Way Street: Disrupting Colonial History
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using examples from the historical narratives about Kainai (Blackfoot Confederacy) painter Gerald Tailfeathers, this chapter challenges colonial narratives in Canadian history and historiography. Inspired by the author's participation in a Disrupting interview, the chapter explores both the author's personal history with colonial histories and
Kirk Niergarth
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A Window on the Genetics of Human Speech: The FOXP2 Gene [PDF]
, 2007 The development of human speech seems to be a species-specific and genetically determined capacity and is considered an extremely important step in the rise of modern humans, human culture and civilisation.
Barabás, Katalin +3 more
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Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
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Classical computing, quantum computing, and Shor's factoring algorithm [PDF]
arXiv, 1999 This is an expository talk written for the Bourbaki Seminar. After a brief introduction, Section 1 discusses in the categorical language the structure of the classical deterministic computations. Basic notions of complexity icluding the P/NP problem are reviewed.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
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Nature, 1953 The Pleistocene Geology and Prehistory of Uganda Part 2: Prehistory. By Dr. C. van Riet Lowe. (Geological Survey of Uganda, Memoir No. 6.) Pp. x + 113 + 54 plates. (Entebbe: Geological Survey of Uganda, 1952.)
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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NTRFINDER: A Software Tool to Find Nested Tandem Repeats [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 We introduce the software tool NTRFinder to find the complex repetitive structure in DNA we call a nested tandem repeat (NTR). An NTR is a recurrence of two or more distinct tandem motifs interspersed with each other. We propose that nested tandem repeats can be used as phylogenetic and population markers.
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2008 This paper intends to scrutinize striking similarities in cultural developments and social transformations in Neolithic communities in the North European Plain of Central Europe and Central Anatolia in the early phase of their development and in the ...
Arkadiusz Marciniak
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