This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit The Company of Biologist's Website., As legless predators, snakes are...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., Studies of recently isolated populations are useful because observed differences can often be attributed to current environmental...
Steffen, John E., Kyle M. Learn, Jonathan S. Drumheller, Scott M. Boback, and Kevin J. McGraw. "Carotenoid Composition of Colorful Body Stripes and Patches in the Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) and Red-Eared Slider...
Boa is a Neotropical genus of snakes historically recognized as monotypic despite its expansive distribution. The distinct morphological traits and color patterns exhibited by these snakes, together with the wide diversity of...
The widespread misperception of plants as passive organisms—providing the backdrop against which the more active members of the animal kingdom play out the drama of life—presents both a challenge and an opportunity for...
Inclusion body disease (IBD) is an infectious disease originally described in captive snakes. It has traditionally been diagnosed by the presence of large eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions and is associated with neurological,...
Introduction: The Chesapeake Bay was once renowned for expansive meadows of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). However, only 10% of the original meadows survive. Future restoration efforts will be complicated by...
Thomas Arnold is a professor of Biology at Dickinson College.
, Myora Springs is one of many groundwater discharge sites on North Stradbroke Island (Queensland, Australia). Here spring waters emerge from wetland forests...
Background There are over two million laparotomies performed in the United States each year with an incisional hernia rate between 2% and 11%. A total of 100,000 ventral hernia repairs are undertaken each year with recurrences...
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., The 356 nt noncoding satellite RNA C (satC) of Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) is composed of 5′ sequences from a second TCV satRNA (satD) and 3′...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre's (REABIC) Website.,...
Guo, Rong, Wai Lin, Jiuchun Zhang, Anne E. Simon, and David B. Kushner. Structural Plasticity and Rapid Evolution in a Viral RNA Revealed by In Vivo Genetic Selection. Journal of Virology 83, no. 2 (2009): 927-939., Satellite...
Bruno, Maria C. A Morphological Approach to Documenting the Domestication of Chenopodium in the Andes. In Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel Bradley, Eve...
Paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany, simply defined as the study of plant remains from archaeological sites, has become a central component of archaeological practice across the globe. Not only are its methods for the recovery...
Sayre, Matthew P., and Maria C. Bruno, eds. Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives From Paleoethnobotanical Data. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017., Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson...
Bruno, Maria C., Nicole C. Couture, and Deborah E. Blom. Proyecto Qochamama?: Experiences, Perceptions, and Representations of Three Female Co-Directors at Tiwanaku, Bolivia. The SAA Archaeological Record 12, no. 2 (2012):...
In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized...
Wei Ren is a professor of Art and Art History at Dickinson College. , Created around 1915, Chen Shizeng’s Beijing Fengsu album represents a pictorial experiment that led to his subsequent well-known theoretical recasting of...
One of the more talented artists to adopt Impressionism's loose brushwork and bright palette in early 20th-century America was Henry Ryan MacGinnis (1875-1962). Painted en plein air , his landscapes depict a variety of settings...
Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have had to adjust what they make as well as how and where they work, coming up with innovative ways...
The subject of female purity constituted a dominant theme for American artists in the late nineteenth century. Artists such as Abbott Handerson Thayer, Edmund Tarbell, Thomas Dewing and others depicted women—whether in domestic...
For more information on the published version, visit Victorian Society in America's Website., Lee, Elizabeth. The Electrified Goddess: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Stanford White and Diana at Madison Square Garden. Nineteenth...
Schlitt, Melinda. Galileo’s Moon: Drawing as Rationalized Observation and its Failure as Forgery. Open Inquiry Archive 5, no. 2 (2016): 1-19., Galileo’s wash drawings that survive – and to a certain degree, the etchings in...
Cervino, Anthony and Shannon Egan. Ejecta. [Carlisle, PA]: Anthony Cervino and Shannon Egan, 2015., This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the...
Earenfight, Phillip, et al. Elsewhere: Todd Arsenault, Andrew Bale, Anthony Cervino, Ward Davenny, Barbara Diduk. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2014., Introduction: While the Dickinson studio art...
Los que trabajamos en salud indígena sabemos que es muy común que los pobladores indígenas o campesinos sean representados como culpables de sus problemas de salud, desconociendo que los pobres indicadores de salud en los...
Systematic and persistent discrimination against Indigenous Peoples translates into differential health outcomes when analysed
through ethnicity and/or mother tongue. In Peru, morbidity and mortality rates among Indigenous...
Globally, Indigenous populations have fared poorly in relation to their non-Indigenous counterparts in previous pandemics hence it is important to assess how they are faring in the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the vulnerability...
Introduction: The Valuation of Flavorful Plants: Staple crops have long been a focus of archaeobotanical studies of fields and gardens worldwide. For example, abundant studies present the domestication, dissemination,...
The Late Formative period immediately precedes the emergence of Tiwanaku, one of the earliest South American states, yet it is one of the most poorly understood periods in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (Bolivia). In this...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Weinstein, Karen J. Anatomy and Climate-Related Variation in Hominins. In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan....
Phenotypic integration and modularity represent important factors influencing evolutionary change. The mammalian cervical vertebral column is particularly interesting in regards to integration and modularity because it is...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Weinstein, Karen J. Thoracic Skeletal Morphology and High-Altitude Hypoxia in Andean Prehistory. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134, no.1...
For more information on the published version, visit Springer's Website., Modern humans are the most geographically widespread primate species inhabiting every terrestrial ecosystem of our planet. While cultural and...
Homo erectus was the first hominin to exhibit extensive range expansion. This extraordinary departure from Africa, especially into more temperate climates of Eurasia, has been variously related to technological, energetic and...
Published as: Villamil, Catalina I. Locomotion and Basicranial Anatomy in Primates and Marsupials. Journal of Human Evolution 111 (2017): 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.003 This author post-print is made...
Published as: Weinstein, Karen J. Morphological Signatures of High-Altitude Adaptations in the Andean Archaeological Record: Distinguishing Developmental Plasticity and Natural Selection. Quaternary International 461...
Published as: Ellison, James. Competitive Dance and Social Identity: Converging Histories in Southwest Tanzania. In Mashindano!: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa , edited by Frank Gunderson & Gregory F. Barz,...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Praeger's Website. Combat, Ritual, and Performance: Anthropology of the...
Ellison, James G. 'A Fierce Hunger': Tracing the Impacts of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Southwest Tanzania. In The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918: New Perspectives, edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray,...
Ellison, James. Teaching Culture, Health, and Political Economy in the Field: Ground-Level Perspectives on Africa in the 21st Century. In Teaching Africa : a Guide for the 21st-Century Classroom, edited by Brandon D. Lundy...
'I do like the work', Monica Hunter wrote to her mother in 1931, just a few months into the research that led to this book. 'Even if I don't write anything I have learnt an enormous amount of value to myself.' 86 Her research...
Rather than strictly local expressions of relatedness, kinship in southern Ethiopia has long been entangled with broad political and economic forces as people negotiate relations with each other, past generations, and the...
Ellison, James. 'Everyone Can Do as He Wants': Economic Liberalization and Emergent Forms of Antipathy in Southern Ethiopia. American Ethnologist 33, no. 4 (2006): 665-86. and After the fall of Ethiopia's socialist...
This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Ellison, James. "First-Class Health: Amenity Wards,...
In the pre-Columbian Andes, the use of hallucinogens during the Formative period (900–300 BC) often supported exclusionary political strategies, whereas, during the Late Horizon (AD 1450–1532), Inca leaders emphasised corporate...
This paper revives a fascinating debate: did a drought start before, during, or after the collapse of the Andean polity of Tiwanaku? Here we present an alternate age model that highlights the real issue: the data from Lake...
Significance: Food production systems are critical components in the emergence of complex socioecological systems. In the Andes, societal complexity has often been related to the increasing production and consumption of maize...
Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality. Since such complex and dynamic problems are plagued by disagreement among...
Bruno, Maria C., José M. Capriles, Christine A. Hasdorf, Sherilyn C. Fritz, D. Marie Weide, Alejandra I. Domic, and Paul A. Baker. "The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the...
To imagine justice for the victims of acts of mass cruelty and collective terror entails significant risk. For the policymaker, imagining reparation may risk overturning the social order on which her positions depends. For the...
LeBrón, Marisol. Mano Dura Contra el Crimen and Premature Death in Puerto Rico. In Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton, 95-107. New York:...
This article examines the practice of “carpeteo ,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and...
In this essay, I trace how punitive policing in Puerto Rico has deepened existing racial, spatial, and class-based inequalities and further limited life chances for some of Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable citizens. To demonstrate...
Mercury is gaining prominence as a proxy for large igneous province (LIP) volcanism in the sedimentary record. Despite temporal overlap between some mass extinctions and LIPs, the precise timing of magmatism relative to major...
Although prior research has explored the demographic characteristics, religious practices, and beliefs of modern Pagans, their political attitudes and actions have yet to be studied in depth. Further, most extant research is...
The United Nations 2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for Gender Equality is one of the more recent examples of more than a century of global-level codification and commitment to the rights of women and equality of the...
Candie C. Wilderman is a Professor Emerita of Environmental Sciences at Dickinson College.
**Jinnie Monismith is the Assistant Director of the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) at Dickinson...
Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM). Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring Annual Report 2017 (2017) . and The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is a community-based science organization housed...