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The Quest of the Hunter-Gatherer

2008· article· en· W4412655875 on OpenAlex

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.

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

VenueClio s Psyche · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Archaeological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHunter-gathererHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Sitting in my study, writing about human aggression, man’s inhumanity to man, I am bemused by the spectacle of eagles, ducks, fish, and seals involved in the unceasing cycle of life, violence, and death unfolding outside my window—a delicate symbiotic balance struck between predator and prey. Why this is so might be illustrated by the observations of my twenty-one-year-old son, Alexei, who last winter was thrilled to get a contract to paint the Chinese crimson and gold banners bedecking a festival stage and hand out leaflets in Vancouver’s notorious downtown eastside, the violence and drug center of Canada. When I ask what it was like to hang around that unprepossessing part of town, Alexei says it was strangely exhilarating: “People are hunting and gathering, eating and sleeping, and fighting and socializing right in front of you. It’s so real! It’s not the suburbs. It is like, like…” “The wilderness?” I offer. “That’s it!” he exclaims. “It’s like the wilderness; it’s so real because there is nothing filtered or refined, nothing insulating you from reality. One minute you are safe, nothing is happening, and the next minute you could be in danger.”

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score0.709

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.069
GPT teacher head0.215
Teacher spread0.146 · 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