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Sir John Tomes FRS, Fellows of the Royal Society, and dental reform in the nineteenth century.
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publication (after seventeen years' work) though it is neither complete nor uniform in style. Other faults are perhaps less excusable on this basis. The descriptions of the earlier manuscripts are meagre, and we still have to look to de Ricci or, in the case of the Galen, to the notes of a previous librarian (Transactions and Studies ofthe College ... 1941-42, 9: 187-190) for details such as wi...
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The causes of biological gigantism have received much attention, but only for individual organisms. What selection pressures might favour the evolution of gigantic societies? Here we consider the largest singlequeen insect societies, those of the Old World army ant Dorylus, single colonies of which can have 20 million workers. We propose that colony gigantism in Dorylus arises as a result of an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1465-6906
DOI: 10.1186/gb-spotlight-20020513-01