Causality is a core concept of human cognition, but the extent to which cultural factors constrain, trigger, or shape the way in which humans think about causal relationships has barely been explored. This chapter summarizes empirical findings on the potential for cultural variability in the content of causal cognition, in the way this content is processed, and in the context in which all this ...

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The World Conservation Monitoring Centre, based in Cambridge, UK, is a joint venture between three partners in the World Conservation Strategy and its successor Caring for the Earth: IUCN – The World Conservation Union, UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme, and WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature. The Centre provides information services on the conservation and sustainable use of species an...

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Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children and therefore persist until today. We review work on the historical origin of differences in female lab...

In 2001, Harris strongly emphasized the need for Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to force archaeologists to acknowledge the pre-eminent position of surfaces, rather than deposits in stratigraphic analysis and recording. This is certainly a problem since stratigraphic data is often recorded in a haphazard and incomplete fashion such that it disallows the accurate and convincing representa...

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The Network Information Center asks that whenever basic manuals or handbooks are produced by Network participants, a sufficient quantity be made to supply NIC with copies for distribution. For good Network communication, NIC now plans to distribute such documents to all Station Agents for use as reference copies, to Liaisons for their own use, and, when desirable, to outside participants for un...