Rôle des environnements dans les origines et l’évolution de la bipédie chez les hominidés : exemple des zones boisées sèches de l’Afrique by Brigitte Senut

“…In the literature, reference has often been made to the environments in which our ancestors lived, emphasizing dietary requirements and/or the importance of behaviours in these more or less wooded environments. …”
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Jouer le jeu ? Les Palestiniens du Liban, entre marginalisation sociale et « rhétorique de l’officiel » by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…The “rhetoric of the official” postulates a successful Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue. The real question here is whether it has a performative impact or remains solely a political fiction.…”
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A cozinha e a mesa em Loulé medieval nos seus utensílios de uso comum: o testemunho dos Inventários de Órfãos by Iria Gonçalves

“…Although produced to safeguard the interest of the orphans, and to follow the way the respective guardians administered their property or held accounts of these tutelages, they equally reveal many other facets of medieval living. Ten of them, drafted over seventy years, between 1408 and 1479, are used here to recover the utensils used in the kitchen and at the medieval table, associated with the storage, cooking and consumption of food. …”
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Les termitières, un univers de chasse (nord du Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…They are used by adult farmers using the surrounding areas of their plots.Among them, termite mounds’ hunters – namely here, the Gizigas from the Maroua region – remain a separate category associating knowledge about living termite mounds exploited once a year, during sexually matured winged adults’ swarming, and knowledge about dead termite mounds that have been given up by their colonies and become the refuge of a diverse, furry, priclkly and scaly animals. …”
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Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes: A comparative cross‐sectional study in France and Colombia by Gladys Barragan‐Jason, Maxime Cauchoix, Paula A. Diaz‐Valencia, Arielle Syssau‐Vaccarella, Solène Hemet, Camilo Cardozo, Suzanne M. Skevington, Philipp Heeb, Camille Parmesan

“…Here, we conducted a cross‐sectional study to examine and compare human–nature connectedness across ages in 1858 participants aged 3–87 years from two countries: France (N = 1059) and Colombia (N = 799). …”
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The new frontier of age limits, or youthoods among the Meru (Kenya) by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…The article offers a contribution to an anthropology of youth, viewed here from the perspective of its limits, and aims to put the rite of passage back in its rightful place within processes that concern both complex trajectories and the crucial junctions of existence.…”
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Le regard des photographes commerciaux. Quelques clichés du fonds égyptien de la Collection Fouad Debbas à l’étude. by Yasmine Chemali, Anne-Hélène Perrot

“…The collection also features many works dedicated to Egypt: from documentary to commercial photography, various photographic trends are represented. …”
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‘In-Betweenness’ Declared and Confirmed: Zoë Wicomb’s October in the Untightened Grip of Ethnic and National Identification by Bartnik Ryszard

“…As a person of South African descent, yet currently living in Europe, Wicomb acknowledges a specific adaptive domain, which in turn serves as a fitting backdrop for construing contemporary South African-ness from a more nuanced, in-between/cosmopolitan position.…”
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Microplastic accumulation in snake-eyed lizard (Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832) after long-term monitoring: habitats matter, not years by Cantekin Dursun, Kamil Candan, Kaan Karaoğlu, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Elif Yıldırım Caynak, Serkan Gül

“…Here, we studied the accumulation of MPs in the gastrointestinal tracts (GITs) of a terrestrial lizard species after long-term monitoring using museum specimens in the collection of the Fauna and Flora Research and Application Center at Dokuz Eylül University from decades ago. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Urban Community Social Vulnerability in Hilly Areas of Kajang by Nor Diana Mohd Idris, Zulkepli Nurul Atikah

“…Overall, the study shows that the people living in Kajang Mewah Hilly area is more vulnerable compared to Kajang Utama Hilly area if landslides happen here. …”
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The NW German Heathland: A Threatened Landscape? by Norbert Fischer, Hansjörg Küster

“…This meant that the people living here had to practise a special shortage or wasteland economy. …”
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Multispectral Bioluminescence Tomography: Methodology and Simulation by Alexander X. Cong, Ge Wang

“…Part of the diffused light can reach the body surface of the small animal, be separated into several spectral bands using appropriate filters, and collected by a sensitive CCD camera. Here we present a bioluminescence tomography (BLT) method for a bioluminescent source reconstruction from multispectral data measured on the external surface, and demonstrate the advantages of multispectral BLT in a numerical study using a heterogeneous mouse chest phantom. …”
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Dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis alters the proportion and composition of replicating gut bacteria by Eve T. Beauchemin, Claire Hunter, Corinne F. Maurice

“…ABSTRACT The bacteria living in the human gut are essential for host health. …”
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Éléments pour une théorie biologique du sujet by Lionel Simonneau

“…A character shared by many aspects with a lot of other living organisms which will be analysed here through the peculiarity of the human specificity. …”
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Gut bacterial communities in roadkill animals: A pioneering study of two species in the Amazon region in Ecuador. by Manuel Alejandro Coba-Males, Magdalena Díaz, C Alfonso Molina, Pablo Medrano-Vizcaíno, David Brito-Zapata, Sarah Martin-Solano, Sofía Ocaña-Mayorga, Gabriel Alberto Carrillo-Bilbao, Wilmer Narváez, Jazzmín Arrivillaga-Henríquez, Manuela González-Suárez, Sandra Enríquez, Ana Poveda

“…These animals that have died on roads due to collisions with vehicles are suitable for accessible, opportunistic sampling. Here, we used metabarcoding for the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene in gut samples of nine roadkill samples collected from a road in Ecuador representing two vertebrate species: the speckled worm lizard (Amphisbaena bassleri) and the smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani). …”
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Chrześcijańska sprawiedliwość społeczna kierunkiem dla rozwoju środowiska przyjaznego życiu by Stanisław Biały

“…So we have taken up here an ethical reflection on the subject of the philosophy of law and State (that is: philosophy of care for our life environment) predominant in the European Union, the directives of which, coming from different treaties and agreements, are being applied to our home legislature. …”
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The Life Adjustment Process in Chronic Pain: Psychosocial Assessment and Clinical Implications by Ann-Christine Gullacksen, Jan Lidbeck

“…Previously, the subjective dimension of suffering from chronic pain has only infrequently been reported in the literature. …”
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Bolder together: conformity drives behavioral plasticity in eastern gartersnakes by Morgan Skinner, Gokulan Nagabaskaran, Tom Gantert, Noam Miller

“…We found that snakes were consistent within contexts (solo or paired), but changed their behavior across contexts (from solo to paired). Plasticity in boldness resulted from an interaction between conformity and repeatable individual differences in plasticity. …”
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Photoinduced hidden monoclinic metallic phase of VO2 driven by local nucleation by Feng-Wu Guo, Wen-Hao Liu, Zhi Wang, Shu-Shen Li, Lin-Wang Wang, Jun-Wei Luo

“…Here we employ the real-time time-dependent density functional theory to track the dynamic evolution of atomic and electronic structures in photoexcited VO2, revealing the emergence of a long-lived monoclinic metal phase under low electronic excitation. …”
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On a Unique Solution of the Stochastic Functional Equation Arising in Gambling Theory and Human Learning Process by Ali Turab, Awad A. Bakery, O. M. Kalthum S. K. Mohamed, Wajahat Ali

“…The term “learning” is often used to refer to a generally stable behavioral change resulting from practice. However, it is a fundamental biological capacity far more developed in humans than in other living beings. …”
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