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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans by Iosif Lazaridis and others by
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First author: Iosif Lazaridis. Nature 513, pp. 409–413; ancestry mixture models and ancient reference genomes.
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe by Wolfgang Haak and others by
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First author: Wolfgang Haak. Nature 522, pp. 207–211; dated ancient genomes and late Neolithic ancestry change.
Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians by Iain Mathieson and others by
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First author: Iain Mathieson. Nature 528, pp. 499–503; selection tests conditional on changing ancestry.
Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe by Richard P. Evershed and others by
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First author: Richard P. Evershed. Nature 608, pp. 336–345; dairy residues, ancient allele frequencies and competing selective explanations.
Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy by Ricardo Araújo and others by
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First author: Ricardo Araújo. Nature 607, pp. 726–731; living-species calibration and inferred transition around 233 Ma.
Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades by Kévin Rey and others by
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Endothermy and activity in vertebrates by Albert F. Bennett and others by
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First author: Albert F. Bennett. Science 206, pp. 649–654; resting and maximum oxygen consumption and the aerobic-capacity hypothesis.
Parental Care: The Key to Understanding Endothermy and Other Convergent Features in Birds and Mammals by C. G. Farmer by
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A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals by Qiang Ji and others by
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Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei by Peter S. Ungar and others by
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First author: Peter S. Ungar. PLoS ONE 3, e2044; seven specimens with preserved microwear and comparison with gross anatomy.
Diet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa by Thure E. Cerling and others by
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First author: Thure E. Cerling. PNAS 108, pp. 9337–9341; enamel carbon isotope evidence for C4-based resources.
Australopithecus afarensis scapular ontogeny, function, and the role of climbing in human evolution by David J. Green and others by
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Turning back the tide of American mink invasion at an unprecedented scale through community participation and adaptive management by Rosalind Bryce and others by
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First author: Rosalind Bryce. Biological Conservation 144, pp. 575–583; landscape-scale monitoring and coordinated control.
Introgression through rare hybridization: A genetic study of a hybrid zone between red and sika deer (genus Cervus) in Argyll, Scotland by Simon J. Goodman and others by
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First author: Simon J. Goodman. Genetics 152, pp. 355–371; microsatellite and mitochondrial evidence of introgression.
Experimental evidence that deer browsing reduces habitat suitability for breeding Common Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos by Chas A. Holt and others by
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First author: Chas A. Holt. Ibis 152, pp. 335–346; eight paired deer exclosures and browsed controls.
Experimental removal of introduced hedgehogs improves wader nest success in the Western Isles, Scotland by Digger B. Jackson by
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First author: Digger B. Jackson. Journal of Applied Ecology 38, pp. 802–812; fenced removal plots, adjacent controls and nest monitoring.
The eradication of muskrats and coypus from Britain by L. M. Gosling and others by
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First author: L. M. Gosling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 38, pp. 39–51; contrasting campaigns and population-based control planning.
Invading and expanding: range dynamics and ecological consequences of the greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) invasion in Ireland by Allan D. McDevitt and others by
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First author: Allan D. McDevitt. PLoS ONE 9, e100403; first recorded in 2007, spread and native pygmy-shrew distribution.
The earliest known eutherian mammal by Qiang Ji and others by
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First author: Qiang Ji. Nature 416, pp. 816–822; Eomaia skeleton and stem-eutherian character combination.
An Early Cretaceous eutherian and the placental–marsupial dichotomy by Shundong Bi and others by
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First author: Shundong Bi. Nature 558, pp. 390–395; Ambolestes anatomy and revised placement of Sinodelphys.
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





