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Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Genetics, 2020
According to historical records of transatlantic slavery, traders forcibly deported an estimated 12.5 million people from ports along the Atlantic coastline of Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries, with global impacts reaching to the present day ...
Steven J. Micheletti   +46 more
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Jeu, normes et transgressions : introduction au dossier thématique

open access: yesKentron, 2022
This issue investigates the notions of norms and transgressions in Greco-Roman antiquity through the prism of play and games as fashioning as well as revealing a society. Six case studies range from Classical Greece to the High Roman Empire.
Véronique Dasen, Typhaine Haziza
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Cadmium Tissue Concentrations in Kidney, Liver and Muscle in Moose (Alces alces) From First Nations Communities in Northern Alberta

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2018
The consumption of traditional foods, including moose, is vitally important to Canada's indigenous communities for dietary, social, and cultural reasons.
Claire McAuley   +4 more
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Medieval BLM: Black Face in Persian Sufi Poetry

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. The black-faced are mentioned in different Muslim texts — from the Quran to Sufi poems. One can trace not just diverse but rather opposite interpretations, and researchers have to face certain problems when it comes to analyze some related ...
Andrey A. Lukashev
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No slave to sex [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003
Fully asexual lineages cannot purge accumulating mutations from their genome through recombination. In ancient asexuals that have persisted without sex for millions of years, this should lead to high allelic divergences (the 'Meselson effect') as has been shown for bdelloid rotifers.
Isabelle, Schön, Koen, Martens
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Haptic based teleoperation with master-slave motion mapping and haptic rendering for space exploration

open access: yesChinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2019
This paper presents a new solution to haptic based teleoperation to control a large-sized slave robot for space exploration, which includes two specially designed haptic joysticks, a hybrid master-slave motion mapping method, and a haptic feedback model ...
Guanyang Liu   +3 more
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A Study on the Transformation of the Surname System in Late Chosŏn [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Korean History, 2016
Significant changes occurred in the late Chosŏn (Joseon) dynasty in terms of the formation of the Korean surname system we know today. The most noteworthy change of the surname system during this time was a drastic increase in the number of people who ...
Kyungran Kim
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Economy and Finance of the Classical Antiquity

open access: yesУчёт. Анализ. Аудит, 2019
The article considers the main directions and features of economic development of the classical Greek-Roman civilization. Agrarian society was based on the developed agriculture and cattle breeding.
Ludmila A. Muravyeva
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Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa

open access: yesAnnual Review of Anthropology, 2023
Slavery in Africa dates to antiquity. Slave trading networks in Africa transported people across the Sahara and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with significant numbers of people sent to the Middle East, India, central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.
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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

open access: yes, 2011
In a recent study, Nunn (2008) examines the long-term impacts of Africa’s slave trade. He finds that the slave trade, which occurred over a period of more than 400 years, had a significant negative effect on long-term economic development.
Nathan Nunn, Léonard Wantchekon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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