Miquel Carandell Baruzzi. The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research. Leiden: Brill (Cultural Dynamics of Science, 3); 2021

Obra ressenyada: Miquel CARANDELL BARUZZI, The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research. Leiden: Brill, 2021

Fusion Learning Colloquium 2022 - Proceedings

This is the proceedings of the 2022 Fusion Learning Colloquium held at Bournemouth University in the UK

Endlings

Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. These “last individuals” are poignant characters in the stories that humans tell themselves about today’s Anthropocene. In this evocative work, Lydia Pyne explores how discussion about endlings—how we tell their histories—draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species’ biology or their evolutionary history.Endlings provides a useful and thoughtful discussion of species concepts: how species start and how (and why) they end, what it means to be a “charismatic” species, the effects of rewilding, and what makes species extinction different in this era. From Benjamin the thylacine to Celia the ibex to Lonesome George the Galápagos tortoise, endlings, Pyne shows, have the power to shape how we think about grief, mourning, and loss amid the world’s sixth mass extinction

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

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Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic-Old questions, novel perspectives

The workshop reported here was sponsored primarily by the European Research Council (ERC) project CLIOARCH, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 817564). In addition, the support of the Aarhus University Research Foundation (#AUFF-E-2019-FLS-1-25) and the warm welcome by the Sandbjerg Manor staff are gratefully acknowledged

Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia

Afro-Arabian mammalian communities underwent a marked transition near the Oligocene/Miocene boundary at approximately 24 million years (Myr) ago. Although it is well documented that the endemic paenungulate taxa were replaced by migrants from the Northern Hemisphere, the timing and evolutionary dynamics of this transition have long been a mystery because faunas from about 32 to 24 Myr ago are largely unknown(1). Here we report a late Oligocene fossil assemblage from Ethiopia, which constrains the migration to postdate 27 Myr ago, and yields new insight into the indigenous faunal dynamics that preceded this event. The fauna is composed of large paenungulate herbivores and reveals not only which earlier taxa persisted into the late Oligocene epoch but also demonstrates that one group, the Proboscidea, underwent a marked diversification. When Eurasian immigrants entered Afro-Arabia, a pattern of winners and losers among the endemics emerged: less diverse taxa such as arsinoitheres became extinct, moderately species-rich groups such as hyracoids continued into the Miocene with reduced diversity, whereas the proboscideans successfully carried their adaptive radiation out of Afro-Arabia and across the world.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62496/1/nature02102.pd