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Published: 07 November 2012
... endeavors are thwarted by the complexity and wildness of psychedelic neurochemistry. Electroencephalography EEG Test subjects or experimental subjects Bleuler Eugen Burghölzli Jung Carl Gustav LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide Quednow Boris Rave scene Religion Schizophrenia Cahn Rael...
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Published: 15 October 2012
... changes—that made it possible for social objectification and institutionalized inquiry to become established. It also deals with the many “revolutions” over the past 250 years that increased social complexity and social instability, along with demands for understanding these phenomena. These kinds...
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Published: 29 November 2006
... attributes, namely seasonality, fire return interval, fire size, spatial complexity, fireline intensity, fire severity, and fire type. Although humans have altered fire regimes throughout California for thousands of years, the pace of fire regime change has accelerated over the past 200 years. Recent...
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Published: 04 August 2008
... of the research on the mainland Chumash, and then presents an overview of the Chumash and the development of Chumash sociopolitical complexity. It also discusses the theoretical considerations involved in the study and presents a brief overview of the following chapters. Crespí Juan Portolá expedition...
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Published: 04 August 2008
...This chapter examines conflict and warfare in order to understand the development of sociopolitical complexity, reviewing certain early ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts of conflict, and summarizing the existing bioarchaeological data on conflict before and after European contact. It also...
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Published: 04 December 2018
... to uncertainties in climate feedbacks; 2) the lack of a settled definition for climate migration; and 3) the causal complexity of migration due to variability in non-environmental factors such as bioregion, culture, economics, politics and individual factors. But waiting for reliable estimates this creates...
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Published: 25 October 2000
... but that different types of popular music use different types of rhetoric, call for different sorts of interpretation, refer to different arguments about musical complexity and familiarity and draw upon different senses of history and tradition. “All Day and All of the Night ” Beatles The Billboard “Come See...
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Published online: 23 May 2019
Published in print: 30 October 2018
... is enacting nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key ethical-political concepts as community, freedom, and care. Ultimately, A War on People argues that in a contemporary condition increasingly characterized by widely diffused complexity and war as governance...
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Published: 08 May 2009
...Ecology is the most complex of all biological sciences since it requires the consideration of all levels of biological organization from genes to global ecosystems. This book presents several approaches to explain ecological complexity and explores the potential for fundamental laws in ecology...
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Published: 04 August 2008
...This chapter reviews briefly the evidence that characterizes the Chumash as complex hunter-gatherers. It discusses the relationship between resource abundance, adaptive mechanisms that cope with environmental issues, and the arrival of social complexity. The chapter concludes with a section on two...
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Published: 04 August 2008
.... Finally, the chapter addresses the debate on the emergence of the sociopolitical complexity and the social sphere of the Chumash, including their economic system, their chiefs, and the social roles present in Chumash society. Arlington Springs Crespí Juan Daisy Cave San Miguel Island Santa Barbara...
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Published: 30 October 2018
.... This concept helps address the question of how it is that people all around the globe, who are otherwise very different from one another, can be said to find themselves in shared conditions for being. The drug war is shown to be one of those complex social phenomena that provide these shared conditions...
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Published: 04 June 2009
...One of the central claims of the intelligent design movement is that certain features of biological organisms are “irreducibly complex,” with such tightly integrated components that removal of any one part renders the system incapable of functioning. The existence of irreducibly complex structures...
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Published: 18 October 2004
... the emergence of twelve-tone serialism and other complex music. Bowles Paul Cory Donald Webster Diamond David gentiles also goyim homosexuality historic constructions and effects of McClatchy J D Pulitzer Prize Rorem Ned Cold War complexity music Copland Aaron D'Emilio John Flanner Janet Kinsey...