Vestiges of Creation

Darwin, Wallace, and Huxley, and Vestiges of the natural history of creation.

St. Nino’s Legend: Vestiges of its various sources

Dies ist eine englischsprachige Internet-Sonderausgabe des Aufsatzes " St. Nino's Legend: Vestiges of its various sources " von Jost Gippert (1997). Sie sollte nicht zitiert werden. Zitate sind der georgischen Originalausgabe " ~m. ninos legenda: gansXvavebul ~qarota kvali " in Enatmecnierebis Sak'itxebi 1-2/2006, 104-122 zu entnehmen. Attention! This is a special English internet edition of th...

Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?

Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges? Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial links can still play an important...

The hidden teeth of sloths: evolutionary vestiges and the development of a simplified dentition

Xenarthrans are unique among mammals in retaining simplified teeth that are rootless and homodont, which makes it difficult to determine dental homologies. We apply computerized tomography to prenatal developmental series of extant sloths, Bradypus and Choloepus, to further elucidate the patterns of morphological variation in their dentition. We also propose new criteria based on sequences of d...

An Apophatic View of God and Creation

The English Dominican Herbert McCabe highlighted some ideas of Thomas Aquinas on the knowability of God and on creation, which can usefully challenge some widespread commonplaces. The purposes of this article are two: to present McCabe’s sophisticated doctrine on the knowability of God and on creation in a systematic way, and to put this doctrine into its historical context. In the scattered an...