The Atlantis Story: An authentic oral tradition?

reflection upon authority of authentic tradition

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The Forager Oral Tradition and the Evolution of Prolonged Juvenility

The foraging niche is characterized by the exploitation of nutrient-rich resources using complex extraction techniques that take a long time to acquire. This costly period of development is supported by intensive parental investment. Although human life history theory tends to characterize this investment in terms of food and care, ethnographic research on foraging skill transmission suggests t...

The Ninja: An Invented Tradition?

Another Look at Atlantis

ticular note are Raymond Dasman's ecological analysis of what man hath wrought to his detriment in the Nile Valley, Kenneth Boulding's exposition of an economics based on the recognition of the finiteness of our world, Father Wassmer's discussion of abortion, and Kingsley Davis' detailed attack on the assumption that better contraceptives and better access to these contraceptives will, themselv...

Oral rehydration therapy: an epithelial transport success story.

Oral rehydration therapy prevents death in acute watery diarrhoea except in the most severe 1-3% of cholera cases. If started at the onset of illness, weakness, orthostasis, muscle cramps, lethargy, and other symptoms of a contracted circulating blood volume are entirely prevented.' Poor countries have rapidly expanded their use of this practical and inexpensive treatment2 while it has been lar...