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The New Genealogical Tree of the Da Vinci Family for Leonardo’s DNA. Ancestors and descendants in direct male line down to the present XXI generation 达芬奇家族DNA的新系谱树。直系父系祖先和后代一直到现在的第21代

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-07-04 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121077

A. Vezzosi, A. Sabato

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Gesturing Hypnotically to Make Real the World. Mandrake the Magician and Jean Eug ne Robert-Houdin 催眠的手势使世界变得真实。魔术师曼德拉和让·欧格内·罗伯特·胡丁

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121079

G. Corinto

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Could the Denisovan Genes have conferred enhanced Immunity against the G614 Mutation of SARS-CoV-2? 丹尼索瓦基因是否能增强对严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒2型G614突变的免疫力？

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121081

Y. Baron

{"title":"Could the Denisovan Genes have conferred enhanced Immunity against the G614 Mutation of SARS-CoV-2?","authors":"Y. Baron","doi":"10.14673/HE2021121081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/HE2021121081","url":null,"abstract":"It is striking that East Asian, South East Asian and South Pacific Populations appear relatively unscathed by the second and subsequent waves of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic compared to the rest of the world. This is more so with the more infectious G614 mutation of COVID-19. Adherence to social distancing measures and face protection do not explain the almost 30-fold difference in infection incidence between Asian and European/American populations. The populations in the Indian Subcontinent are an exception, as infections rates were elevated compared to other Asian countries. Differences in immune responses between European and African populations have been alluded to because of archaic introgression of immune-related Neanderthal genes in the European genome. As opposed to the European genome, the Asian genome has a higher introgression of the Neanderthal’s sister species’ genes, the Denisovan genes, which are more commonly found in East and South East Asia and the South Pacific populations. Contrastingly the Denisonvan genes are scantily found in the populations of the Indian Subcontinent.Lockdown in China and bordering nations, led to significant reductions in atmospheric pollution, which itself significantly attenuates pulmonary immunity. Following lockdown in January the G614 variant emerged in China. With improved immunity following lockdown, the Denisovan immunity-related gene may have been allowed to be expressed more effectively, protecting Asian populations against the more infectious G614 variant of SARS-CoV-2 during the subsequent waves of the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":35061,"journal":{"name":"Human Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49457239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Advancements in the history of literature. Psychological stages and sequential epochs 文学史上的进步。心理阶段和顺序时代

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121078

G. Oesterdiekhoff, H. Rindermann

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The Turbulent History of Bringing Anthropology to Life in the United States 将人类学带入美国生活的动荡历史

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121083

M. Ananth

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The re-configuration of subjectivity during the pandemic: a thematic analysis of some literary texts on the border between humanistic geography and philosophy 大流行时期主体性的重构:人文地理学与哲学边界文学文本的专题分析

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.14673/HE2021121080

F. Pascale

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Non-human primates in J. M. Coetzee’s works featuring Elizabeth Costello j·m·库切以伊丽莎白·科斯特洛为主角的作品中的非人类灵长类动物

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI: 10.14673/HE2020341075

L. Spini

{"title":"Non-human primates in J. M. Coetzee’s works featuring Elizabeth Costello","authors":"L. Spini","doi":"10.14673/HE2020341075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/HE2020341075","url":null,"abstract":"John Maxwell Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, is well-known for his references to animals in his fiction, and for his active engagement against cruelty enacted on animals. This inclination is particularly visible in those works featuring the character, Elizabeth Costello, the fictional Australian writer who is also a strong and well-known advocate against cruelties on animals. Many studies have been conducted on Coetzee’s animals, from different perspectives from anthropological, philosophical and ecological, but less attention has been placed on focusing on the roles of particular species, or groups of species, described in his works (with few exceptions mostly on dogs). Hence, this paper aims at furthering the understanding of the role of non-human primates referenced in Coetzee’s fiction, from bio-anthropological and ecological perspectives. In particular, it addresses Coetzee’s fiction featuring Elizabeth Costello, namely, The Lives of Animals (1999), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003), Slow Man (2005), and Moral Tales (2017). By accounting and analyzing non-human primates (mostly great apes) and their settings (mostly anthropized), the research concludes that Coetzee exhibits a scientific knowledge of non-human primates and related ethical and conservation issues which allows him to contribute to the scientific debate on the place of human beings in nature.","PeriodicalId":35061,"journal":{"name":"Human Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46359272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Legacy Trees in Sicily. A Heritage of Stories 西西里岛的遗产树。故事的遗产

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI: 10.14673/HE2020341071

G. Corinto

{"title":"Legacy Trees in Sicily. A Heritage of Stories","authors":"G. Corinto","doi":"10.14673/HE2020341071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/HE2020341071","url":null,"abstract":"Trees are tall plants that can live a long time. They mutely attend events of humans for many years, even centuries, and millennia. A forest or a single tree can survive many human generations. When they get old, they can perform the social role as a monument, reminding the value of time and the environment. The present paper is dedicated to the Monumental and Legacy Trees in Sicily. It aims at showing the nexus between the necessary care of veteran trees and the cultural values that the entire society can achieve through their conservation for the present and the future. After the definition of Monumental Trees, the paper deals with the multiple meanings that even a singular tree has in religion, mystics, education, environment, heritage, and also in tourism. The paper gives geographical knowledge on the principal Sicilian Monumental Trees, deepening the fascinating stories of some of the more typical of them. The olive tree is a millennial symbol of the Mediterranean landscape; the almond tree remembers the eternal springtime of Sicily with its very early blossoming in February; oak trees, holm oak, cork oak, and chestnuts are gigantic monuments of the holiness and boldness of Sicilian mountains. The author argues that future life of old trees depends on policies regarding both environment and cultural tourism.","PeriodicalId":35061,"journal":{"name":"Human Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44259623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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1921. Otto Zdansky discovers the Peking Man Fossil 1921. 奥托·兹丹斯基发现北京人化石

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI: 10.14673/HE2020341074

P. Puech

{"title":"1921. Otto Zdansky discovers the Peking Man Fossil","authors":"P. Puech","doi":"10.14673/HE2020341074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/HE2020341074","url":null,"abstract":"It is common to praise archaeologists for their major discoveries, this is how the name of Otto Zdansky (1894-1988) is linked to that of the Peking Man he discovered at the end of the summer of 1921 in China, 48 km from Beijing (Peking). Less often mentioned is the interest given by the inventor to research undertaken on the fossil isolated teeth of this Homo erectus from China that he unearthed on the Zhoukoudian site (formerly Chou-kou-tien). These teeth of Sinanthropus pekinensis, which he had sent to Uppsala University of Sweden, had also become important in 1980 for me who was then trying to understand how ancient men lived. The three original isolated teeth discovered and described by Otto Zdansky, held at Uppsala in the ZKD (Zhoukoudian) collection since 1923 : Right upper M3 (1921) Left lower P3 (shipped in1923) Right lower P4 (1952), are reflecting the expanding interest of the1920s in the traces of the “peripheral” human evolution in China [Black 1926; Zdansky 1927, 1952]. In January 1980 I contacted Otto Zdansky (figure 1) to include their study; using a method I had started in 1976 to carry out an analysis of the wear of teeth examined under the microscope of populations in order to deduce the different food choices. This and excerpts from Otto Zdansky’s letters reproduced in bold italics bring to life this story of the discovery of the first fossilized remains of Peking Man.","PeriodicalId":35061,"journal":{"name":"Human Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44592347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Unit of Time and the Mesoamerican Calendar 时间单位与中美洲历法

Human Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI: 10.14673/HE2020341076

F. Barbiero

{"title":"The Unit of Time and the Mesoamerican Calendar","authors":"F. Barbiero","doi":"10.14673/HE2020341076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/HE2020341076","url":null,"abstract":"A hypothetical rational process of establishing a unit of time with a meaningful connection to both, the length of the day and that of the tropic year, would lead to a natural candidate which represents the average error per year in a cycle of 365,2422 x 128 = 46751.0016 days, that is: 0.0016/128 = 1/80,000. However, if we multiply that unit by the number 1.08 we obtain: 80,000 x 1.08 = 86,400, that is the actual unit of time. \u0000The odds are that such a process was done by an ancient unknown civilisation which influenced on one side the Eurasian continent, where the second and a trigonometric system on base 60 were adopted and the number 108 and its multiples and submultiples (54, 108, 216, 432, 86400 etc) represent the scientific, mythological and sacred numerology of all ancient civilisations. On the other side central America, where a numerical system on base 20 was adopted and a calendar based on the cycle of 128 years. It can be demonstrated that it belongs to a family of 18 calendars, characterised by an ever rolling week and an auxiliary year which together with the solar year are submultiples of an auxiliary century. There are precise relations between all these units, allowing to design astronomical “clocks” with the same characteristics of the central American calendar for whatever length of the week.","PeriodicalId":35061,"journal":{"name":"Human Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47920751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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