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Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia by Luca Pagani and others by
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First author: Luca Pagani. analyses of a predominant shared expansion and proposed earlier ancestry in Papuans.
A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome by Richard E. Green and others by
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A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa by Aaron P. Ragsdale and others by
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First author: Aaron P. Ragsdale. Nature 617, pp. 755–763; model comparison with long-term gene flow among ancestral African populations.
Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor by Brian G. Richmond and others by
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First author: Brian G. Richmond. Nature 404, pp. 382–385; wrist characters interpreted as retained knuckle-walking adaptations.
Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor by Tracy L. Kivell and others by
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First author: Tracy L. Kivell. PNAS 106, pp. 14241–14246; contrasts between chimpanzee and gorilla wrist development and function.
Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids by Tim D. White and others by
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Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain by Salvador Moyà-Solà and others by
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First author: Salvador Moyà-Solà. Science 306, pp. 1339–1344; orthograde trunk and contrasting hand morphology.
Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution by Kevin E. Langergraber and others by
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First author: Kevin E. Langergraber. PNAS 109, pp. 15716–15721; pedigrees, generation intervals and divergence-time sensitivity.
Survival of the Irish elk into the Holocene by Silvia Gonzalez and others by
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First author: Silvia Gonzalez. Nature 405, pp. 753–754; directly dated giant deer from the northern Irish Sea basin.
New evidence for the occurrence of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in medieval Britain by David A. Hetherington and others by
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First author: David A. Hetherington. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, pp. 3–8; directly dated lynx bone and implications for extinction causes.
The presence of the brown bear Ursus arctos in Holocene Britain: a review of the evidence by Hannah J. O'Regan by
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First author: Hannah J. O'Regan. assessment of native survival versus imported animals and alternative extinction chronologies.
Phylogeographic, ancient DNA, fossil and morphometric analyses reveal ancient and modern introductions of a large mammal: the complex case of red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Ireland by Ruth F. Carden and others by
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First author: Ruth F. Carden. Quaternary Science Reviews 42, pp. 74–84; Neolithic record, ancient DNA and recent introductions.
The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy by Karis H. Baker and others by
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First author: Karis H. Baker. British Roman introductions and medieval translocations; combined biomolecular and archaeological evidence.
Parapoxvirus causes a deleterious disease in red squirrels associated with UK population declines by Daniel M. Tompkins and others by
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First author: Daniel M. Tompkins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 269, pp. 529–533; contrasting experimental susceptibility of red and grey squirrels.
Population crash in an invasive species following the recovery of a native predator: the case of the American grey squirrel and the European pine marten in Ireland by Emma Sheehy and others by
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First author: Emma Sheehy. Biodiversity and Conservation 23, pp. 753–774; distributional changes associated with pine marten recovery.
Eocene evolution of whale hearing by Sirpa Nummela and others by
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Morphology of the gastrointestinal tract in primates: comparisons with other mammals in relation to diet by David J. Chivers and others by
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First author: David J. Chivers. Journal of Morphology 166, pp. 337–386; comparative gut measurements and dietary categories.
Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation by Robert S. Sansom and others by
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By Robert S. Sansom and collaborators. Nature 463, 797–800.
Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record by Robert S. Sansom and others by
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Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny by Tetsuto Miyashita and others by
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By Tetsuto Miyashita and collaborators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 2146–2151.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact





