essenes are a sect of jewish that dwelled in palestine and syria and have been known as ascetics in jew history in second century (bc).this sect because of their special doctorine and rituals that is different of other jewish sects are accounted as heralds of christianity.all of information about this sect has been drived from greek sources and qumran documents that it´s possible these document...

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A new Anthracoidea species, A. songorica, is described on Carex songorica (subgen. Carex, sect. Paludosae) from Iran.

McKay and Dennett’s description of beliefs, and misbeliefs in particular, is a commendable contribution to the literature, but we argue that referring to beliefs as adaptive or maladaptive can cause conceptual confusion. “Adaptive” is inconsistently defined in the article, which adds to confusion and renders it difficult to evaluate the claims, particularly the possibility of “adaptive misbelie...

Section Gamosepalum has been reported from Turkey for the first time by Dudley. In recent years, several species of this section were reported as new records for Iran. Four species of Alyssum section are tranfered from sect. Alyssum to sect. Gamosepalum with considering of important characters in each section. These changes made two synonymies. Five species of Gamosepalum section including A. l...