Several therocephalian species,mainly represented by cranial material from the late Permian,have been reported from China in recent years.Here we describe a tiny new baurioid therocephalian,Jiucaiyuangnathus confusus ...Several therocephalian species,mainly represented by cranial material from the late Permian,have been reported from China in recent years.Here we describe a tiny new baurioid therocephalian,Jiucaiyuangnathus confusus gen.et sp.nov.,from the Jiucaiyuan Formation,Xinjiang,China.The new taxon is represented by a partial snout with occluded partial lower jaw and two postcranial skeletons.Although juvenile in stage,the new species is diagnosed by the following features:round pit in middle of lateral surface of maxilla;lacrimal contact nasal;fossa for dentary tooth on the posterior end of the premaxilla,lateral to the anterior choana;two small vertical triangular ridges extending dorsally and ventrally on the vomerine anterior portion,and bordering a thin vomerine foramen laterally;anterior projection of the lateral part of the frontal on the nasal;symphyseal region of the dentary projected anteriorly;5 upper premaxillary teeth,upper and lower canines absent,diastema between the last premaxillary upper incisor and first maxillary tooth present,no diastema separating anterior from posterior dentition in the mandible,10 maxillary teeth and 12 dentary teeth,posterior postcanine expands mesiodistally,having a main large cusps and tiny anterior and posterior accessory cusps in line;neural arches of the atlas fused by the neural spine,neural spine of the axis projected posteriorly,procoracoid foramen lies between procoracoid and scapula.Features of the dentition resembles those of the small baurioid Ericiolacerta parva from South Africa and Silphedosuchus orenburgensis from Russia.The specimens provide the rare opportunity to know in detail the postcranial skeleton of baurioids.展开更多
The label“posthumanism”identifies neither a doctrine,nor an intellectual or analytical approach with a defining set of protocols.Rather,we may take“posthumanism”as a term loosely applied to a range of contribution...The label“posthumanism”identifies neither a doctrine,nor an intellectual or analytical approach with a defining set of protocols.Rather,we may take“posthumanism”as a term loosely applied to a range of contributions and approaches,on the basis of a generally under-specified collection of sympathies and commitments.Approximately stated,these sympathies and commitments would entail the claim that—with due allowance for historical variation—the category of“the human”has long played a key role at the centre of Western thought;that this role has included serving to justify the promotion of human beings above other forms of being,and indeed within this,over its history,the violent oppression of the great majority of human beings themselves;and that,in league with the effects of various recent technological developments,it is therefore important to decentre,relativize,critique,and perhaps even move beyond“the human”.In this article,I will accordingly not look to define the term“posthumanism”:rather,I will present some of the background to and influences on the range of contributions and approaches that have come to be assembled under this label;delineate two principles which may be discerned within these contributions and approaches;and consider some of the critiques which these“posthumanist”interventions have attracted.Ultimately,I will argue that the label itself matters less than the impulses behind the contributions it has come to identify.展开更多
文摘Several therocephalian species,mainly represented by cranial material from the late Permian,have been reported from China in recent years.Here we describe a tiny new baurioid therocephalian,Jiucaiyuangnathus confusus gen.et sp.nov.,from the Jiucaiyuan Formation,Xinjiang,China.The new taxon is represented by a partial snout with occluded partial lower jaw and two postcranial skeletons.Although juvenile in stage,the new species is diagnosed by the following features:round pit in middle of lateral surface of maxilla;lacrimal contact nasal;fossa for dentary tooth on the posterior end of the premaxilla,lateral to the anterior choana;two small vertical triangular ridges extending dorsally and ventrally on the vomerine anterior portion,and bordering a thin vomerine foramen laterally;anterior projection of the lateral part of the frontal on the nasal;symphyseal region of the dentary projected anteriorly;5 upper premaxillary teeth,upper and lower canines absent,diastema between the last premaxillary upper incisor and first maxillary tooth present,no diastema separating anterior from posterior dentition in the mandible,10 maxillary teeth and 12 dentary teeth,posterior postcanine expands mesiodistally,having a main large cusps and tiny anterior and posterior accessory cusps in line;neural arches of the atlas fused by the neural spine,neural spine of the axis projected posteriorly,procoracoid foramen lies between procoracoid and scapula.Features of the dentition resembles those of the small baurioid Ericiolacerta parva from South Africa and Silphedosuchus orenburgensis from Russia.The specimens provide the rare opportunity to know in detail the postcranial skeleton of baurioids.
文摘The label“posthumanism”identifies neither a doctrine,nor an intellectual or analytical approach with a defining set of protocols.Rather,we may take“posthumanism”as a term loosely applied to a range of contributions and approaches,on the basis of a generally under-specified collection of sympathies and commitments.Approximately stated,these sympathies and commitments would entail the claim that—with due allowance for historical variation—the category of“the human”has long played a key role at the centre of Western thought;that this role has included serving to justify the promotion of human beings above other forms of being,and indeed within this,over its history,the violent oppression of the great majority of human beings themselves;and that,in league with the effects of various recent technological developments,it is therefore important to decentre,relativize,critique,and perhaps even move beyond“the human”.In this article,I will accordingly not look to define the term“posthumanism”:rather,I will present some of the background to and influences on the range of contributions and approaches that have come to be assembled under this label;delineate two principles which may be discerned within these contributions and approaches;and consider some of the critiques which these“posthumanist”interventions have attracted.Ultimately,I will argue that the label itself matters less than the impulses behind the contributions it has come to identify.
