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Peter N. Peregrine (born November 29, 1963) is an American anthropologist, registered professional archaeologist, [1] and academic. [2] He is well known for his promotion of the use of science in anthropology, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and for his popular textbook Anthropology (with Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember ). [ 5 ]
Dementia is a terrible disease, but these 25 easiest trivia questions for seniors with dementia will perhaps provide a bright spark in the day for anyone afflicted with the illness. Click to skip ...
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"Peregrine", a song by Donovan on the 1968 album The Hurdy Gurdy Man; The Peregrine, 1967 book by J. A. Baker on peregrine falcons; Peregrine, 2006 album by the Appleseed Cast; Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band "Peregrines", a 2004 short story by Suzy McKee Charnas; Tonus Peregrinus, a British vocal ensemble
Robert Macfarlane deemed The Peregrine to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. [3] On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed ...
In the 1st and 2nd centuries, the vast majority (80–90%) of the empire's inhabitants were peregrini.By 49 BC, all Italians were Roman citizens. [Note 1] Outside Italy, those provinces with the most intensive Roman colonisation over the approximately two centuries of Roman rule probably had a Roman citizen majority by the end of Augustus' reign: Gallia Narbonensis (southern France), Hispania ...
The sitting-rising test (SRT) is a clinical test which provides a significant and efficient prediction of mortality risk in the elderly. It was initially developed by Brazilian researchers in exercise physiology and sports medicine in the 1990s. The test involves sitting on the floor, then returning to a standing position from the floor.
Assuming a genetic distance of 2% in hierofalcons [17] corresponds to a divergence roughly 200,000–130,000 years ago, [18] the 0.6–0.7% genetic distance in the peregrine falcon-Barbary falcon ("peregrinoid") complex [16] suggests its current taxa evolved in the Late Pleistocene some 100,000 years ago or less, but before the Upper Paleolithic.