The most fundamental questions such as whether a cell is alive, in the sense of being able
to divide or to form a colony, may sometimes be very hard to answer, since even axenic …

The ability of environmental factors to promote a phenotype or disease state not only in the
individual exposed but also in subsequent progeny for successive generations is termed …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, M--
oslash--; ller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of symmetry. They advance …

Living things are unimaginably complex, yet they have withstood a withering assault of
harmful influences over several billion years. These influences include cataclysmic changes …

Areas and pathways subserving object and spatial vision are segregated in the visual
system. Experiments show that the primate prefrontal cortex is similarly segregated into …

Sulfonylureas are a class of drugs widely used to promote insulin secretion in the treatment
of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. These drugs interact with the sulfonylurea …

Darwinism provides not only a theory of biological evolution but also supplies a more
generic process applicable to many phenomena in the behavioral sciences. Among these …

Bacteria have specific loci that are highly mutable. We argue that the coexistence within
bacterial genomes of such 'contingency'genes with high mutation rates, and …

Stressful environmental conditions can be defined as those that lead to a sharp reduction in
fitness in populations. That is, when changed environmental conditions cause a drastic …