[PDF] Top 20 Introduction to this Special Issue on the Evolution of Material Culture

... Artifact lineages can include branching and reticulation. Prentiss et al. demonstrate that while the history of skateboard manufacture is rife with homoplasy (e.g., lateral transfer through borrowing) and possibly also ... See full document

... commonly-used evolution education measurement ...for evolution education instruments, and such evidence has been drawn from a narrow range of participant populations ...to evolution education, how- ... See full document

... In the biological sciences, teleological ideas and language are ubiquitous. The first article by Werth and Allchin (2020) provides numerous examples of teleology at differ- ent levels of biological organization (i.e., ... See full document

... the introduction of a stylized supply chain where upstream firms ...the evolution of their financial conditions -- in a nutshell: Capital and Credit -- are essential ingredients of a crisis, ... See full document

... vertising and marketing. Processes of vertical integration make the boundaries between the two systems fuzzy. Concentration processes and horizontal integration, which are inherent features of capital accumulation, shape ... See full document

... Two broad classes of metrics have been developed: form metrics and content met- rics. Form metrics focus on grammaticality, overall text coherence, and organization and are usually measured on a point scale (Brandow, ... See full document

... to involve some reconstruction of the traditional. Eisenstadt’s starting point was the legacy of Karl Jaspers’s notion of the Axial Age, based on the contest between the mundane and the transcendental. In particular, ... See full document

... The development of culture is at the heart of Gabora’s paper. Gabora examines the cultural analogs of phenomena observed in population genetics such as adaptation and drift. She argues that an appeal to Darwinian ... See full document

... Alexander‟s tacking backwards to go forwards suggests we relinquish this desire and engage with the entangled and messy identities we live in and with now, accepting that, in any case, they trail behind us willy nilly. ... See full document

... Bige Saatcioglu and Canan Corus’ contribution, ‘Exploring Spatial Vulnerability: Inequality and Agency Formulations in Social Space’, demonstrates how a critical theory of space can enhance the study of consumer ... See full document

... work of the translation process and the ways in which it works upon, and is worked upon by, the discourses and structures of power in specific societies and cultures. He claims that the hegemonic construction of ... See full document

... African material in the light of their own nostalgic of vicariously identity-affirming projections) would claim to mediate African traditions whereas in fact what they were representing are only figments of these ... See full document

... a material study of partition so far’, says Malhotra who was not only seeking out the obvious objects but also the unlikely: ‘There is, of course, jewellery, which people carried thinking they could sell ... See full document

... language, culture and traditions of the region in favour of imperialist agendas in the region, the very Afghanistan where the Ghadarites from his home state were instrumental in establishing the first ... See full document

... Rheg’s ideas as expressed in his 2009 paper focused on the travel of scientific arguments. For those arguments, talk of experts and procedures is quite fitting. When moving to the social domain, however, where political ... See full document

... The third paper, by Junqing Jia, examines the importance of vision on sustaining long-term motivation. She presents case studies of two advanced learners of Chinese and discusses how their well-constructed and robust ... See full document

... folk culture; d) from the people of German romanticism to the Greek terms people, folk; from folk culture to popular culture; the magical character of folk thought; e) mores, customs, survival and ... See full document

... Research on VerbNet inspired the development of the Proposition Bank (PropBank; Palmer, Gildea, and Kingsbury 2005), which has emerged as a primary resource for research in SRL (and used in four of the articles in this ... See full document

... Syntactic theories describe generalizations at various levels of the typology of phrases. At the least specific level of the phrasal typology, any word or phrase belongs to the same type. All that can be said for this ... See full document

... this issue includes new articles on less commonly—or rarely— discussed texts, like The Names (1982), Cosmopolis (2003), and Point Omega (2010), as well as two of his earliest publications “The Uniforms” (1970) ... See full document