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THE PREHISTORY OF THE CADUCEUS [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1919 To the Editor: —In the discussion of the caduceus as a medical emblem (The Journal, April 26, p. 1243), your commentator states that "whoever recommended its use as a medical emblem in this country has either been conducted by Mercury, his titular deity, to join the souls of the dead in the world below, or is keeping unusually quiet." In regard to ...
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The prehistory of compassion [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 Beyond the biological traits that differentiate ancient species of hominins from extant humans, differences in social organization remain an important yet difficult issue to assess. Psychological features and interindividual relations, in particular, are among the least accessible aspects of past behaviors.
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On Picturing a Candle: The Prehistory of Imagery Science [PDF]
, 2016 The past 25 years have seen a rapid growth of knowledge about brain mechanisms involved in visual mental imagery. These advances have largely been made independently of the long history of philosophical – and even psychological – reckoning with imagery ...
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The archaeology of human- dog relations in Northwest Alaska [PDF]
, 2018 Some 1500 years ago, on a gravel spit extending into the Chukchi Sea, people living at the site of Ipiutak buried several members of their community ...
Hill, Erica
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Prehistory of Transit Searches
, 2018 Nowadays the more powerful method to detect extrasolar planets is the transit method. We review the planet transits which were anticipated, searched, and the first ones which were observed all through history. Indeed transits of planets in front of their
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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, 1997 The author examines the history, technique and meaning of ta moko (Maori tattoo) from prehistory to modern ...
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
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A Prehistory of n-Categorical Physics
, 2008 This paper traces the growing role of categories and n-categories in physics, starting with groups and their role in relativity, and leading up to more sophisticated concepts which manifest themselves in Feynman diagrams, spin networks, string theory ...
Baez, John C., Lauda, Aaron
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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]
, 2017 The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
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