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...regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...
...most scholars now agree, do they correspond very well to linguistics. Sykes has pointed out that the Basques, who speak a non-Indo-European language amid a sea of Indo-European ones, lack the genetic markers that would indicate they have been in Europe longer than their French and Spanish neighbors (though there are markers - such as a much higher frequency of RH-negative blood types - that point to their distinctiveness). And most speakers of Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language surrounded by Indo-European tongues, don't appear genetically much different from their Slavic neighbors...
...behind the “Osiris Paintings” of artist Anthony Apesos, on display in the Gallery of the Newton Free Library. This collection of 16 paintings can be neatly divided into three categories based on the thematic content and color palate used in each. Essentially, the categories correspond with the three main stages of Osiris’ legend...
According to The Philosophical Gourmet Report, a nationwide ranking of academic philosophy departments published on the Internet by UT-Austin's Francis Professor in Law Brian R. Leiter, the keys to philosophical enlightenment no longer correspond with the keys to Harvard Yard...
...extremely powerful movement,'' says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. ''I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country.'' Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: ''We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history.'' Some social observers have already dubbed the 1990s the ''We decade...