Reply to Bar-Oz et al.: Commensalism and mutualism as early incentives for cat domestication

Reply to Evans and Bar-Oz et al.: Recovering ecological pattern and process in Ancient Egypt.

Our recent paper used artistic depictions of animals and fossil evidence to examine the community-level effects of local extinction events over 6,000 y of Egyptian history (1). We found that local extinctions were nonrandom, that changes to community structure (quantified by the species predator/prey ratio) seemed to correspond to local aridification pulses, and that the decline in species rich...

Reply to Peng et al.: Archaeological contexts should not be ignored for early chicken domestication.

Reply to Peters et al.: Further discussions confirm early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China.

Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al

In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Reply to Gratiy et al.

TO THE EDITOR: Gratiy et al. (2013) proposed two alternative explanations for the nonbalanced current source density (CSD) estimates in Riera et al. (2012). Their commentary was based on a particular interpretation of the role played by the Ampere-Maxwell Law in the genesis of the electric fields for macroscopic media. In this Reply, we will provide further information to stimulate the debate i...