Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains

The Mesa Verde Types of Pueblos.

How the Pueblos Got Their Sprachbund

Pueblo societies comprise a culture area, and a zone of linguistic convergence or Sprachbund, that encompassed four distinct language families. Pueblo groups are also quite genetically homogeneous. The general forces promoting or diluting cultural differences across groups are defined and given a preliminary weighting through time for Pueblo societies. The Neolithic demographic transition and t...

Darren Knight

Glaucoma is an ocular disease that leads to the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells. In the chronic version of glaucoma, lack of pain creates patients that are often unaware that they their eyesight has begun to deteriorate. They remain unaware of their condition until they suddenly lose their sight due to leaving the disease untreated. Even when glaucoma is diagnosed, a considerable number ...

Foiling the Black Knight

Why is the academy in general, and philosophy in particular, not more involved in the fight against the creationist threat?Andwhy,when a response is offered, is it so curiously ineffective? I argue, by using an analogy with the battle against the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, that the difficulty lies largely in a failure to see the nature of the problem clearly. B...

Draft Genome Sequence of Porphyrobacter mercurialis (sp. nov.) Strain Coronado.

Here, we present the draft genome of Porphyrobacter mercurialis strain Coronado, the proposed type strain for this species. The assembly contains 3,482,341 bp in 10 contigs.