La matière féerique dans Salammbô by Gesine Hindemith

“…Thus the Punic Wars Carthage is fossilized, as a time stratum doomed to disaster and annihilation.…”
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Promessas antológicas: o conto latino-americano contemporâneo a partir de algumas antologias by Wilson Alves-Bezerra

“…The issues are related to the market in fl uences, the criteria employed by anthologists and the endurance of fossilized views on the continental production such as the boom of Latin American Literature from the fi fties and the magical realism. …”
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Synthesis of micropaleontological age constraints for the reconstruction of the Tethyan realm in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Karabagh) by Danelian, Taniel, Triantaphyllou, Maria, Seyler, Monique, Galoyan, Ghazar, Grigoryan, Arayik, Sosson, Marc

“…Synthesis of the existing bio-chronostratigraphic constraints in Armenia and Karabagh sheds light to the depositional and magmatic history of Tethys in the Lesser Caucasus and highlights the age constraints of fossils on the timing of ophiolite obduction in the region.…”
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Nouvelle approche métrique de l'épaule du genre Archaeolemur : caractéristiques morphologiques et myologiques by Beby Ramanivosoa

“…We can recognize subfossil lemurs, less mineralized than the fossils. They are much larger than the extant ones. …”
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Neotectônica no Amazonas: análise geomorfológica-geológica na BR 174 by Deivison Carvalho Molinari, Daniella Paiva de Carvalho

“…These gray leaflets are built into the package, recorded in the presence of bioturbated fossils, originated from the activities of organisms used for transgressions and marine regressions of glacial influence. …”
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La poésie antique du Sangam est-elle vraiment une poésie du paysage ? Littérature tamoule classique et vision contemporaine du paysage by Frédéric Landy, Evelyne Gauché, Gopinath Sricandane

“…Nowadays, a regionalist reading, often very political, has contributed to fossilize the poems under this label of landscape literature.…”
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L’enfant de Mezmaiskaya (Caucase) examiné dans une double perspective paléogénétique et paléoanthropologique by Véronique Barriel, Anne-Marie Tillier

“…The palaeogenetic interpretation is examined in the present article based on data available for modern humans (Anderson et al. 1981; HvrBase; http://www.hvrbase.de) and for three Middle Palaeolithic fossils from Germany (Feildhofer 1 and 2 ; Krings et al. 1997; Krings et al. 1999; Schmitz et al. 2002) and Croatia (Vindija-75-G3/h-203; Krings et al. 2000), which are attributed to the Neanderthal line and those of Pan paniscus and the four sub-species of Pan troglodytes (EMBL and GenBank). …”
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Meeting Island Dwarfs and Giants of the Cretaceous – The Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark, Romania by Zoltán Csiki-Sava, Alexandru Andrășanu

“…We review here key geological heritage elements of the Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Carpathians, western Romania) represented by latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate fossils and the sedimentary rocks enclosing them. …”
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« The arrested step », Nightwood de Djuna Barnes : « Une image est une halte que fait l’esprit entre deux incertitudes » by Christiane Guillois

“…She will have none of fossilized emotions and acts predicated on habit. She seeks the authentic, and it is this quest that leads her to bodies in motion, for while fashioned out of personal history, they throb with pulsations that are universal. …”
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Contemporary oasis hydraulics: An open window on the sociology of the population of medieval Saharan cities by Chloé Capel

“…The aim of this cross-disciplinary approach is to produce a social interpretation of the ancient irrigation systems fossilized in current agricultural plots, in order to produce a diachronic analysis of social organizations that have disappeared. …”
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The articular wrist complex in Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene African hominoids: anatomofunctional and morphometric comparative approach by Guillaume Daver

“…Une approche transdisciplinaire a été conduite d’abord à l’aide de radiographies (n = 10), de dissections (n =14) et d’observations morphologiques (n = 392) puis à l’aide de la morphométrie géométrique 3D appliquée à l’étude des os du complexe fonctionnel capitatum-hamatum (n[capitatum] = 245 ; n[hamatum] = 222 ; n[capitatum fossiles] = 10 ; n[hamatum fossiles] = 6). Ainsi, j’ai montré que pour les mouvements de flexion-extension du poignet, les hominoïdes actuels, à l’image des autres anthropoïdes, présentaient une plus grande mobilité médio-carpienne qu’antébrachio-carpienne. …”
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Placenta-Specific Protein 1 Is Conserved throughout the Placentalia under Purifying Selection by Eric J. Devor

“…Recent phylogenetic analyses, coupled with new, quite complete fossils, suggest that the crown orders were all established rapidly from a common ancestor just after the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary 65 million years ago. …”
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Changements socio-environnementaux et dynamiques des paysages ruraux le long du gradient bioclimatique nord-sud dans le sud-ouest du Niger (régions de Tillabery et de Dosso) by José Luis San Emeterio, Frédéric Alexandre, Julien Andrieu, Alain Génin, Catherine Mering

“…However, the research undertaken here leads to a more nuanced conclusion : when data are disaggregated, the situation looks very diversified, revealing, independently from the bioclimatic gradient and from the meridian differentiation linked with the fossile valleys (dallols), situations where the vulnerability of both populations and ecosystems appears more or less pronounced.…”
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Mandible and teeth characterization of the Gravettian child from Gargas, France by Mona Le Luyer, Sébastien Villotte, Priscilla Bayle, Sélim Natahi, Adrien Thibeault, Bruno Dutailly, Carole Vercoutère, Catherine Ferrier, Christina San Juan-Foucher, Pascal Foucher

“…Finally, our results also highlight previously undocumented spatial differences in the tooth crown dimensions of Upper Palaeolithic fossils.…”
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Morphological characterization of biominerals from five multicellular marine algae species by A. M. Zakharenko, M. A. Nawaz, V. V. Chaika, I. V. Zemchenko, T. Yu. Orlova, A. A. Begun, R. V. Romashko, A. N. Galkina, A. A. Karabtsov, G. Chung, K. S. Golokhvast

“…Silica phytoliths are intrinsic parts of the algae and their morphological characterization can provide the basis for palaeo-reconstruction and taxonomic investigation of brown and red algae in palaeontological studies of fossils where all organic matter has decayed.…”
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Micro- and Nanoscale Pore Structure Characterization and Mineral Composition Analysis of Clayey-Silt Hydrate Reservoir in South China Sea by Cheng Lu, Yuxuan Xia, Xuwen Qin, Chao Ma, Hang Bian, Donghui Xing, Hongfeng Lu

“…The mineral composition of the reservoir is mainly quartz and contains a certain amount of clay minerals, mainly illite, while the mineral composition of reservoir rich in microbial fossils is mainly carbonate. The results indicate that the pore structure and mineral composition of natural gas hydrate reservoirs in Shenhu area lay a foundation for the efficient development of the clayey-silt reservoir.…”
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Phylogenetic and biomechanical influences in the structural pattern of the femoral diaphysis among catarrhines by Quentin Cosnefroy, François Marchal, Laurence Bellaiche, Robert Carlier, Cyrille Cazeau, Kathia Chaumoître, Franck Lamberton, Antoine Perrier, Jean-Christophe Theil, Gilles Berillon

“…Caution is therefore needed when inferring locomotor behavior in fossils solely based on femoral structural properties.…”
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Comparaison entre espèces chez le primate et évolution du langage by Anne Reboul

“…One of the main problems regarding the evolution of language is that language does not fossilize, which makes it difficult to date its apparition in the homo lineage. …”
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Integrating paleoparasitological, paleogenetic, and archaeological data to understand the paleoecological scenario of pre-Columbian archaeological site Gruta do Gentio II, Brazil by Ludmila Gurjão, Lorrayne Brito, Ondemar Dias, Jandira Neto, Alena Mayo Iñiguez

“…Paleoparasitology and paleogenetics is the study parasites in ancient remains from latrines, mummified individuals, and coprolites, that is fossilized or desiccated feces. Paleoparasitological studies in Brazil began with analyses of coprolites from the Gruta do Gentio II (GGII) archaeological site, the oldest site related to the Una ceramist tradition (12,000 to 410 BP), Brazil. …”
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Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland by Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, Gregory F. Funston, Dugald Ross, Amelia Penny, Stephen L. Brusatte

“…The lack of many well-preserved pterosaur fossils limits our understanding of the functional anatomy and behavior of these flight pioneers, particularly from their early history (Triassic to Middle Jurassic). …”
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