Summary The phonological changes undergone by the word rmṯ , ‘person’, are shown to have clashed with its emblematic and almost logographic written form established at end of Old Kingdom. orthography lexeme was highly resistant alterations in phonology, which resulted two gender over time, from original masculine feminine, finally back masculine. However, Egyptian scribes sometimes tried solve ...

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A review of John 'ryler Bonner's Nature Vs. Nurture Revisited The Evolution of Culture in Animals (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980) W hen biologists turn their attention to the relationships between mankind and animals, they see in mankind the quantitative extensions of qualities present in other species. Social scientists, on the other hand, see the uniqueness of mankind."2 Bonner ...