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Dental analyses of the Bab edh-Dhra’ human remains. (2008)
Book Chapter
Bentley, G., & Perry, V. (2008). Dental analyses of the Bab edh-Dhra’ human remains. In D. Ortner, & B. Frohlich (Eds.), The EB I Tombs and Burials of Bâb edh Dhrâ, Jordan. AltaMira Press

Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends. (2008)
Book Chapter
Layton, R. (2008). Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends. In D. Papagianni, R. Layton, & H. Maschner (Eds.), Time and change: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the long term (1-13). Oxbow

Discusses ways in which human agency revealed in archaeological moments such as tool-making at Boxgrove or dietary remains from a buried NW Coast native American village can be integrated nto the study of long term adaptive or social evolutionary tre... Read More about Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends..

Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution. (2008)
Book Chapter
Barton, R. (2008). Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution. In L. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (389-394). Academic Press

The only plausible scientific explanation for the existence of what Charles Darwin termed ‘‘organs of extreme perfection and complication,’’ such as the brain, is that they evolved over millennia by natural selection. The human brain contains million... Read More about Brain Modules: Mosaic Evolution..

Lessons from animal teaching. (2008)
Journal Article
Hoppitt, W., Brown, G., Kendal, R., Rendell, L., Thornton, A., Webster, M., & Laland, K. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, 486-493

Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity (2008)
Journal Article
Worthman, C., & Panter-Brick, C. (2008). Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity. Development and Psychopathology, 20(1), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579408000114

As challenges to child well-being through economic disadvantage, family disruption, and migration or displacement escalate world wide, the need for cross-culturally robust understanding of childhood adversity proportionately increases. Toward this en... Read More about Homeless street children in Nepal: Use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity.

What Counts? Volunteers and their organisations in the recording and monitoring of biodiversity (2008)
Journal Article
Bell, S., Marzano, M., Cent, J., Kobierska, H., Podjed, D., Vandzinskaite, D., …Mursic, R. (2008). What Counts? Volunteers and their organisations in the recording and monitoring of biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(14), 3443-3454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9357-9

There is a pressing need for volunteer amateur naturalists to participate in data collection for biodiversity monitoring programmes in Europe. It is being addressed in some countries, but less so in others. This paper discusses the results from quali... Read More about What Counts? Volunteers and their organisations in the recording and monitoring of biodiversity.

Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology. (2008)
Journal Article
Laland, K., Odling-Smee, J., Feldman, M., & Kendal, J. (2009). Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology. Foundations of Science, 14, 195-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-008-9153-8

In spite of its success, Neo-Darwinism is faced with major conceptual barriers to further progress, deriving directly from its metaphysical foundations. Most importantly, neo- Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental cause of evolutionary change, “... Read More about Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology..