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PUBLIC RELEASE: 8-JUL-2016 Massive open-access database on human cultures created UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO [image: IMAGE] <http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/119376.php> IMAGE: NORMS OF DOMESTIC ORGANIZATION VARY SUBSTANTIALLY AMONG THE WORLD'S CULTURAL GROUPS. FOR THE GLOBAL SAMPLE OF SOCIETIES IN D-PLACE, A NEARLY EQUAL NUMBER TEND TOWARDS SINGLE-GENERATION AS MULTI-GENERATION (EXTENDED FAMILY)... view more <http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/119376.php> CREDIT: COURTESY OF KATHRYN KIRBY/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO TORONTO, ON - An international team of researchers has developed a website at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that shaped human cultural diversity. D-PLACE - the Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment - is an expandable, open access database that brings together a dispersed body of information on the language, geography, culture and environment of more than 1,400 human societies. It comprises information mainly on pre-industrial societies that were described by ethnographers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. FOR MORE SEE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uot-mod070816.php -- Brian McKenna, Ph.D. Anthropologist Department of Behavioral Sciences CASL 4025 University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, Michigan _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
