Flying animals need a reliable way to determine their orientation with respect to the external world, especially with reference to the direction of gravity. Throughout the long evolutionary history of insect flight, the brightest part of the visual field has been the sky, and thus it is a robu...
Explanations of why nocturnal insects fly erratically around fires and lamps have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to the light”. However, without three-dimensional flight data to test them rigorously, the cause for this odd behavi
The interdisciplinary tradition that has been developed within the field of linguistic ethnography enabled me to engage in detailed analysis of the ways in which different language resources were drawn upon in the daily interactional routines of primary classroom life in Timor-Leste. It also enabled m...
We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to ethics in ancient DNA research held in November 2020. There was widespread agreement that globally applicable ethical g...
This study puts the usage-based assumption that our linguistic knowledge is based on usage to the test. To do so, we explore individual variation in speakers’ language use as established based on corpus data – both in terms of frequency of use (as a pr
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Ancient history relies on disciplines such as epigraphy—the study of inscribed texts known as inscriptions—for evidence of the thought, language, society and history of past civilizations1. However, over the centuries, many inscriptions have been damag
Ancient history relies on disciplines such as epigraphy—the study of inscribed texts known as inscriptions—for evidence of the thought, language, society and history of past civilizations1. However, over the centuries, many inscriptions have been damag
Assuming that DD species are threatened in the same proportion as non-DD species28, we estimate that 59.0%–65.7% of coral reef sharks and rays are threatened (mean 63.2%; n = 134; Fig. 1). This is the first assessment for 12.7% (n = 17 of 134) of sharks and rays, ...