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Record W4387777998 · doi:10.1515/9781805390671-007

Chapter 4. The Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf

2022· book-chapter· en· W4387777998 on OpenAlex
Nicholas Chare

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBerghahn Books · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWildlife Ecology and Conservation
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsGeographyHistory

Abstract

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InterconnectionsIn 1937, the zoologists Glover M. Allen and Th omas Barbour published an article, 'Th e Newfoundland Wolf ', that used the cranial measurements of wolf skulls held at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to argue that the wolves of Newfoundland formed a distinct subspecies.Th e skulls entered the museum collection in June 1865, provided by the trapper J.M. Nelson.He furnished the institution with two complete skeletons and two additional skulls.Th eir Newfoundland provenance is noted in the museum's acquisitions catalogue, but, as Allen and Barbour observe, '[n]o additional particulars are given'. 1 It is unknown where it was in Newfoundland that Nelson killed the wolves, or precisely when.Much of Allen and Barbour's article is taken up with issues of nomenclature.Th e trinomial they propose for the island subspecies is Canis lupus beothicus, chosen to honour the 'the now extinct aborigines of Newfoundland, the Beothuks [sic]'. 2 Allen and Barbour also considered the Newfoundland Wolf extinct, remarking: 'At the present time the Newfoundland Wolf is probably quite gone'. 3 Additionally, they refl ect on the paucity of information available about the animal: 'Th ere is little recorded concerning the Newfoundland Wolf '. 4 Much of the historical information they are able to provide simply records killings of wolves, including accounts of slayings of individual wolves in 1894 and 1911.Both these Chapter 4 Th e Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf Animal and Human Genocide in Canada's Easternmost Province

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.902
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.191
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it