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Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities

Francesco Casalegno, Taylor Howard Newton

Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...

2021

No time for drifting: Comparing performance and applicability of signal detrending algorithms for real-time fMRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Rotem Roza Kopel

As a consequence of recent technological advances in the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), results can now be made available in real-time. This allows for novel applications such as online quality assurance of the acquisition, intra-op ...

2019

Care. Emerging Natures : Research by Design

The work addresses research by design as a subject and a method. It explores theorizations, experimentations, and verifications, all of them engaged in writing, drawing and building. It is discovery-led, and starts from a blurry "state of the arts". It osc ...

EPFL2012

Mycobacterium leprae genotype amplified from an archaeological case of lepromatous leprosy in Central Asia

Stewart Cole

We have amplified Mycobacterium leprae DNA from the skeleton of an adult human female exhibiting signs of lepromatous leprosy (LL). The remains were excavated from the site of Devkesken 6 on the Ustyurt plateau of Uzbekistan and date to between the 1st and ...

2009