Although most epidemic human infectious diseases are caused by recently introduced pathogens, cospeciation of parasite and host is commonplace for endemic infections. Occasional host infidelity, however, provides the endemic parasite with an opportunity to survive the potential extinction of its host. Such infidelity may account for the survival of certain types of human lice, and it is current...

antiquity The era of ancient (from the Western perspective, mostly the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean) civilizations extant between prehistory and the Middle Ages. determinism A doctrine claiming that human actions are determined by external factors; its prominent varieties include environmental and geographic determinism. early modern world The period immediately following the Middle Ages, v...

Dies ist eine Internet-Sonderausgabe des Aufsatzes " The formation of comparatives in the history of Georgian I: The prehistory of the synthetic comparatives " von Jost Gippert (1996). Sie sollte nicht zitiert werden. Zitate sind der Originalausgabe in Enatmecnierebis Sak'itxebi (V =) 1/2000, 37-45 zu entnehmen. Attention! This is a special internet edition of the article " The formation of com...

1.1 The intention behind the publication in 1989 of "Midlands Prehistory: Some recent and current researches into the prehistory of central England", was to show that the Midlands was "far from the prehistoric wilderness that was once envisaged" (Gibson 1989, 3). This collection of papers provided a demonstration of how the combined efforts of aerial photography, fieldwalking and rescue archaeo...