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Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia
The pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is commercially cultivated in semi-arid regions around the globe. Archaeobotanical, genetic, and linguistic data suggest that the pistachio was brought under cultivation somewhere within its wild range, spanning southern ...
Basira Mir-Makhamad +3 more
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We are playing football: Seeing the game on Panapompom, PNG [PDF]
© Royal Anthropological Institute 2011.This article is about football, played by men from Panapompom in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province. Football is problematic not because it is culturally appropriated or modified, but rather because Panapompom ...
Anderson +108 more
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Anatomical Variation, Hominins, Species, and Self-Domestication [PDF]
The evolution of hominins, members of the zoological tribe Hominini, has been a much-studied topic, and the construction of phylogenetic trees has been the key method in molecular evolutionary studies. How scientists determine the phylogenetic trees are governed by the assumptions they place on the construction of similarities and differences in ...
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This paper aims to identify strategies for translating self-names (proper nouns) and ideological tendencies in translation works. The data sources used were the translated novel entitled Binatangisme (translated by Mahbub Djunaidi) as the source text and
Ina Mina Saroh
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In the eye of the beholder: owner preferences for variations in cats' appearances with specific focus on skull morphology [PDF]
Changes in the popularity of cat breeds are largely driven by human perceptions of, and selection for, phenotypic traits including skull morphology. The popularity of breeds with altered skull shapes appears to be increasing, and owner preferences are an
Caney, SMA +5 more
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Self-domestication and the Cultural Evolution of Language
Abstract The structural design features of human language emerge in the process of cultural evolution, shaping languages over the course of communication, learning, and transmission. What role does this leave biological evolution?
Raviv, L., Kirby, S.
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Yawn contagion in humans and bonobos: emotional affinity matters more than species. [PDF]
In humans and apes, yawn contagion echoes emotional contagion, the basal layer of empathy. Hence, yawn contagion is a unique tool to compare empathy across species.
Demuru, Elisa +2 more
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About coevolution of humans and intelligent machines: preliminary notes [PDF]
Cooperation is something worthy to be explored from a social, economic, biological and even genetic point of view. This paper deals with human cooperation and focuses specifically on how humans interact with intelligent machines, which are considered as ...
Santosuosso, Amedeo
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Stories come together with the cognitive and behavioral innovations needed for human communication
It is quite possible that early human attempts at communication were primarily aimed at telling stories to others. Nonetheless, such an ability, at least in its full-fledged, modern form, seems unlikely without certain key cognitive ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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One of the greatest achievements of genetics in the 20th century is D.K. Belyaev’s discovery of destabilizing selection during the domestication of animals and that this selection affects only gene expression regulation (not gene structure) and ...
M. P. Ponomarenko +9 more
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