Paleontology

Çeviren: Murat Erşen

Kitap Açıklaması
Bilgelik yaralarımızın kılığına bürünür. Bize nasıl gizlice kanayacağımızı öğretir. Delilik belki de artık değişim geçirmeyen bir acıdan başka bir şey değildir. Hangi eski yazarda okudum üzüntünün kanın yavaşlamasından ileri geldiğini? Tam da budur üzüntü: Durgunlaşan kan. İnsanı hiçbir şey, o ana kadar kendine itiraf etmeye cesaret bulamadığı, hatta bihaber olduğu kusurlarından birinin berrak görüntüsüyle uykuya dalmaktan daha iyi vicdan sahibi yapmaz. Söz ve sükût. Konuşan bir delinin yanında, ağzını açmayan bir delinin yanında olduğundan daha güvende hissederiz. Cioran, taklit edilemez yazı ustalığı ve ürkütücü zihin açıklığıyla tüm zehrini yaşamın üzerine akıtıyor. Yine de Yeni Tanrılar’ı kaplayan mutlak umutsuzluğa ve karanlık sayfalara son cümlede hayat mucizesinin zayıf ışığı sızar: "Hepimiz, her anı bir mucize olan bir cehennemin dibindeyiz."

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Kitap Adı: Yeni Tanrılar
Yazar: E. M. Cioran
Yayınevi: Redingot
Hamur Tipi: 2. Hamur
Sayfa Sayısı: 136
Ebat: 13 x 19,5
İlk Baskı Yılı: 2019
Baskı Sayısı: 1. Basım
Barkod: 9786056911903

The aim of this article is to reveal the etymology of Brunnen ‘a well’(*br < *bur ‘water’, *u ‘minus or to draw’, -nnen ‘suffix’) in German, compared with hur < *bur ‘water’ in Basque, umur ‘a well’(*u ‘minus or to draw’, mur ‘water’) in Korean, in the Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age.

Diagenetic distortion can be a major obstacle to collecting quantitative shape data on paleontological specimens, especially for three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis. Here we utilize the recently-published algorithmic symmetrization method of fossil reconstruction and compare it to the more traditional reflection &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; averaging approach. In order to have an objective test of this method, five casts of a female cranium of Papio hamadryas kindae were manually deformed while the plaster hardened. These were subsequently &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;retrodeformed&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; using both algorithmic symmetrization and reflection &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; averaging and then compared to the original, undeformed specimen. We found that in all cases, algorithmic retrodeformation improved the shape of the deformed cranium and in four out of five cases, the algorithmically symmetrized crania were more similar in shape to the original crania than the reflected &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; averaged reconstructions. In three out of five cases, the difference between the algorithmically symmetrized crania and the original cranium could be contained within the magnitude of variation among individuals in a single subspecies of Papio. Instances of asymmetric distortion, such as breakage on one side, or bending in the axis of symmetry, were well handled, whereas symmetrical distortion remained uncorrected. This technique was further tested on a naturally deformed and fossilized cranium of Paradolichopithecus arvernensis. Results, based on a principal components analysis and Procrustes distances, showed that the algorithmically symmetrized Paradolichopithecus cranium was more similar to other, less-deformed crania from the same species than was the original. These results illustrate the efficacy of this method of retrodeformation by algorithmic symmetrization for the correction of asymmetrical distortion in fossils. Symmetrical distortion remains a problem for all currently developed methods of retrodeformation.

The aim of this article is to reveal some languages with *bur ‘water’ in a fossilized compound: spring ‘a wellspring’ in English  and Brunnen ‘a well’ in German, compared with *bur > hur ‘water’ in Basque, in the Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age.

In the Mid to Late Ordovician the area of the Ougarta Range in north-west Africa occupied a position in relative
proximity to the South Pole. Eight successive low diversity brachiopod faunas, including the lingulide association
dominated by unnamed species of Lingulobolus, the Darriwilian ?Sivorthis fraterna and Tissintia convergens, the
Sandbian to early Katian Drabovinella regia and Tafilaltia destombesi–Rostricellula ambigena associations, the
mid Katian Drabovinella maxima and Svobodaina cf. havliceki associations and the late Hirnantian Plectothyrella
crassicostis chauveli Association are recognised. The brachiopod based correlation with the Middle to Upper
Ordovician succession of the Anti-Atlas in Morocco, suggests the presence of some gaps in the Ougarta section.
The occurrence of Svobodaina cf. havliceki in the Bou MʼHaoud Formation Upper Member suggests its correlation
with the upper part of the Lower Ktoua Formation of the Anti-Atlas. Among the other brachiopod taxa Drabovinella
regia, Orbiculothyris cf. costellata, Tafilaltia destombesi, Rostricellula ambigena, together with the genera Fehamya,
Mezotreta and Leptaena were previously unknown from Algerian Sahara. • Key words: Brachiopoda, Ordovician,
taxonomy, biostratigraphy, Algeria, Gondwana.

Ein Objekt überragt seit acht Jahrzehnten die Berliner Museumslandschaft: das Dinosaurierskelett des Brachiosaurus brancai. Von 1909 bis 1913 wurden unter der Leitung des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin in der Kolonie Deutsch-Ostafrika 225 Tonnen fossile Knochen ausgegraben, zur Küste transportiert und nach Berlin verschifft.
Das Buch folgt der wechselvollen Geschichte dieser Objekte durch das 20. Jahrhundert: Gefunden und ausgegraben in der Kolonialzeit,
aufgestellt in den Jahren der Weimarer Republik und des „Dritten Reiches“ und wiedererrichtet nach dem Krieg in Ost-Berlin, stehen die Funde bis heute im Zentrum des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin. In der Geschichte der Tendaguru-Expedition und ihrer weltberühmten, vielschichtigen und fragmentarischen Objekte zeigt sich ein Zusammenspiel von Politik, Wissenschaft und Museum, das bis heute die Präsentation, das Wissen und die Debatten um Brachiosaurus brancai prägt.

The aim of this article is to reveal some languages with *pana ‘grand’(such as ‘grand-father’): Hittite with hassa ‘grand-son’ and hanzassa ‘grand-grand-son’, Old Korean with han-abi ‘grand-father’, Maori with mokopuna ‘grand-child’ and tupuna ‘grand-parent’, and Tamil with pāṭṭaṉ ‘grand-father’ and pāṭṭi ‘grand-mother’, where *pana ‘grand’(such as ‘grand-father’) might have the etymology in the Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age.

The aim of this article is to reveal some languages with *na ‘mother’: Hittite with hanna- ‘grand-mother’, Korean with na:h with a long vowel, ‘to give birth to, i.e. to become mother’, and Maya glyphs with na' with a clipped vowel, ‘mother’, which might have the etymology in the Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age.

The aim of this article is to reveal the etymologies of hassa ‘grand-son’ and hanzassa ‘grand-grand-son’ as fossilized compounds in Hittite, compared with sa ‘son’ in Egyption Hieroglyphs in the Rosetta Stone, in the Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Age.

Contents
1. A word sa ‘son’ in Egyption Hieroglyphs in the Rosetta Stone
2. The etymologies of hassa ‘grand-son’ and hanzassa ‘grand-grand-son’ as fossilized compounds in Hittite
3. Conclusion
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