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Corinne Alinea - A Potential Role for Programmed Cell Death in the Formation of an In Vitro Neural Stem Cell Niche
Reconstruction of Free Energy Profiles from Fast Nonequilibrium Processes
Stress and the American Toad
Effect of Parental Intervention and Toddler Distress in Fear eliciting Situations
Valuation, Information, and Bidding in Real Estate Auctions
Synthesis of an Analog of the Novel Anti-neoplastic Agent Leinamycin
Classifying Cicero’s Catilinarians
Seismic Station Installation in Isparta, Turkey and Surrounding Regions
Embryonic stem cells cross-correct for defects found in a mutant mouse model for the neurodegenerative disorder known as Batten Disease
Altered Nuclear Gene Expression in Response to Mitochondrial Mutations in Maize
Autonomy, Uncertainty, and Brute Luck Egalitarianism
Clean Cells, Liberating Prisons?: American and British Housewives after World War II and Women of Today
Effects of Endocrine Disrupters on the Zebrafish Embryo
The Benefits of Online Emotional Disclosure
Clarifying Prehistory
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Matthew Schroeder, Anthropology
Michael J. O'Brien, Mentor
Americanist archaeology has seen several major paradigm shifts, with changes in methodology, focus, and purpose accompanying with each paradigm. However, there is a commonality among all of the different paradigms that hinders productive scientific study: what I refer to as the “essentialist/materialist paradox.” It is this paradox that has led to the current state of the discipline with hypotheses and conclusions built on speculative data and ideas. This study attempted to explain that paradox, demonstrate why it is problematic, and offer a way out in order to rebuild the discipline with organic evolution as the foundation.