| | Title | Creator | Description | Subject | Date |
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| 51 |  | Identification and functional consequences of a new mutation (E155G) in the gene for GCAP1 that causes autosomal dominant cone dystrophy | Zhang, Kang | | | 2001 |
| 52 |  | Parental care: the key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals | Farmer, Colleen G. | Birds and mammals share a number of features that are remarkably similar but that have evolved independently. One of these characters, endothermy, has been suggested to have played a cardinal role in avian and mammalian evolution. I hypothesize that it is parental care, rather than endothermy, that ... | Evolution; Metabolism; Convergence | 2000 |
| 53 |  | Ethical Marxism and its radical critics | Landesman, Bruce M. | Wilde defends what he calls Ethical Marxism. This is a familiar view, which many refer to as Marxist Humanism. According to Wilde, Marx holds that there is a human essence which involves freedom and the development of each individual's creative potential. This is achievable, however, only under cond... | Marxism; Book review | 2000 |
| 54 |  | Marxism and philosophy in the twentieth century: a defense of vulgar Marxism (Book Review) | Landesman, Bruce M. | A review of "Marxism and philosophy in the twentieth century: a defense of vulgar Marxism" by Richard Hudelson. | Books; Marxism; Philosophy | 1991-10 |
| 55 |  | Whose child? children's rights, parental authority and state power (Book Review) | Hanna, Patricia Lee | A review of the book "Whose Child? Children's Rights, Parental Authority and State Power" edited by William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette. | Books, reviews; Children's rights | 1981-10 |
| 56 |  | Having children: philosophical and legal reflections on parenthood (Book Review) | Hanna, Patricia Lee | A review of the book "Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood". | Books, reviews; Parenthood; Philosophy; Law | 1981-07 |
| 57 |  | More than victims: battered women, the syndrome society, and the law (Book Review) | Stark, Cynthia A. | Review of the book "More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law" by Donald Alexander Downs. | Books; Philosophy; Domestic Violence | 1998-07 |
| 58 |  | Ethical Marxism and its radical critics (book review) | Landesman, Bruce M. | Reviews the book `Ethical Marxism and Its Radical Critics,' by Lawrence Wilde. | Books; Marxism; Philosophy | 2000-01 |
| 59 |  | Equal rights for children (book review) | Hanna, Patricia Lee | A review of the book "Equal Rights for Children" by Howard Cohen. | Books, reviews; Equal rights; Children | 1982-04 |
| 60 |  | Democracy beyond borders: justice and representation in global institutions | Chatterjee, Deen | A book review of Andrew Kuper's Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions. | Book review; Democracy; Global governance | 2006-04 |
| 61 |  | Textbook of healthcare ethics (Book Review) | Battin, Margaret P. | Reviews the book `Textbook of Healthcare Ethics,' by Erich H. Loewy. | Books; Ethics; Healthcare | 2001-09-17 |
| 62 |  | Ernst Freund: pioneer of administrative law | Firmage, Edwin B. | Ernst Freund was born in New York City on January 30, 1864, during a visit of his family to the United States from their native Germany. Much of his education took place in Germany, a fact that significantly influenced his views on administrative law. He studied successively at Dresden, Frankfort, B... | Memoriam; Biography | 1962 |
| 63 |  | Origins and affinities of modern humans: a comparison of mitochondrial and nuclear genetic data | Rogers, Alan R.; Jorde, Lynn B. | To test hypotheses about the origin of modern humans, we analyzed mtDNA sequences, 30 nuclear restriction-site polymorphisms (RSPs), and 30 tetranucleotide short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms in 243 Africans, Asians, and Europeans. An evolutionary tree based on mtDNA displays deep African branch... | Base Sequence; Variation (Genetics); Base Sequence | 1995 |
| 64 |  | John Stuart Mill's Deliberative landscape (Book Review) | Millgram, Elijah | A review of the book "John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape." by Candace Vogler. | John Stuart Mill; Books | 2002-08 |
| 65 |  | History of political theory and other essays (Book Review) | Kukathas, Chandran | Reviews the book `The History of Political Theory and Other Essays,' by John Dunn. | Books; Political Theory | 2001-09-17 |
| 66 |  | How much can fossils tell us about regional continuity? | Rogers, Alan R. | Presents a study on the genetic contribution of earlier populations to later populations within regions called regional continuity. Testing for regional continuity with multiple characters; Replacement of archaic population by a population of modern humans. | Human genetics; Fossils; Regional continuity | 2006-06-05 |
| 67 |  | Human life histories: primate trade-offs, grandmothering socioecology, and the fossil record | Hawkes, Kristen | Human life histories differ from those of other animals in several striking ways. Recently Smith and Tompkins (1995, p. 258) highlighted the combination of "slow" and "fast" features of human lives. Our period of juvenile dependency is unusually long, our age at first reproduction is late, and we h... | Meat; Maturity; Life Span | 2003 |
| 68 |  | Hunting and nuclear families: some lessons from the Hadza about men's work | Hawkes, Kristen | Hadza hunter-gatherers display economic and social features usually assumed to indicate the dependence of wives and children on provisioning husbands and fathers. The wives and children of better Hadza hunters have been found to be better-nourished, consistent with the assumption that men hunt to pr... | Subsistence economy; Tindiga, African people; Subsistence hunting | 2001-10-24 |
| 69 |  | Disunity of science (book review) | Downes, Stephen M. | Review of the book `The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power,' edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump | Books; Science; Disunity | 2001-09-24 |
| 70 |  | Maintaining diversity in an ant community: modeling, extending, and testing the dominance-discovery trade-off | Adler, Frederick R.; Feener, Donald H. | Ant communities often consist of many species with apparently similar niches. We present a mathematical model of the dominance-discovery trade-off, the trade-off between the abilities to find and to control resources, showing that it can in principle facilitate the coexistence of large numbers of s... | Coexistence; Dominant species; Parasitoid | 2007 |
| 71 |  | Making a necessity of Virtue (Book Review) | White, Nicholas P. | Reviews the book `Making a Necessity of Virtue,' by Nancy Sherman. | Books; Philosophy;; Virtue | 2001-09-18 |
| 72 |  | Margalit, Avishai. The decent society | Landesman, Bruce M. | The title of this book will surely pique the interest of political philosophers who have spent much time and energy in recent decades trying to capture the idea of justice. Margalit believes that in the quest for justice, decency has been overlooked. A decent society may or may not be a step to a ju... | Humiliate; Respect; Justice | 1997 |
| 73 |  | Modeling evolution in theory and practice | Plutynski, Anya | This paper uses a number of examples of diverse types and functions of models in evolutionary biology to argue that the demarcation between theory and practice, or "theory model" and "data model." is often difficult to make. It is shown how both mathematical and laboratory models function as plausib... | Models; Theory; Data; Evolutionary biology | 2001 |
| 74 |  | Moral dimensions of academic administration (Book Review) | Hanna, Patricia Lee | Reviews the book `The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration,' by Rudolph H. Weingartner. | Books, reviews; School management & organization; nonfiction | 2002-07 |
| 75 |  | Importance of models in theorizing: a deflationary semantic view | Downes, Stephen M. | It is commonly acknowledged in science that model construction is one of the most important components of theorizing. Philosophers of science are gradually coming to acknowledge this situation, spurred on by holders of the semantic view of theories. In this paper I wish to defend a very deflationary... | Theories; Mathematical; Scientific | 1992 |
