In a paper that is about to be published in the journal Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, the origin, early dispersal, human domestication and anthropogenic diffusion of Cannabis are reviewed and discussed. According to DNA phylogenies, Cannabis diverged…
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Cannabis origin, evolution and domestication
Tagged with: Caucasus, diffusion, dispersal, domestication, drug, Europe, hemp, hemp Cannabis, Iberian Peninsula, Middle Ages, Miocene, Oligocene, origin, Pleistocene, retting, Tibetan Plateau
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Posted in Cannabis, My publications, Sin categoría
New Springer book on the prehistory of Easter Island
Springer has approved the publication of a new book entitled The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards a Multidisciplinary Integrative Framework, edited by Valentí Rull and Christopher M. Stevenson. The book is aimed at presenting representative papers from a…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in Books, My publications, Sin categoría
Fake authorship
This is pasted from a recent PNAS paper. It would seem an extreme example bu this is not unusual in papers with far less authors… I can only say: Come on! Author contributions: J.W.F.S. and J.F. designed research; J.W.F.S. and…
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The best acknowledgement I ever received…
“And I want to give special thanks to those scientists, researchers and naturalists out there who unawaredly have inspired me to learn more, understand more, think out of the box, triggering my imagination about the mysteries of nature yet to…
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