They may in fact have been disposed of more directly: pithecanthropoids certainly ate each other and are likely to have killed and eaten their weaker kin.

The cranberry sides look both sweet and puckersome.

Moreover, an excessive focus on the culture-specific might reinstate the very hierarchy it is intended to dislodge, and it might lack broader relevance or theorizability.

The reduction in soil water status and the cessation of sand movement are considered to be important factors in the decline of the A. ordosica community. The importance of allelopathy, and in particular autopathy, in preventing seedling growth of A. ordosica is also discussed.