Consciousness concerning gender/sexuality in life histories with gender transitioning

Gender transitioning before puberty?

End - of - life decision making concerning patients with disorders of consciousness

Chronic disorders of consciousness Chronic disorders of consciousness (CDC) are states of illness that are notorious for provoking substantial ethical quandaries. The fiction literature, cinema and theater abound with stories of individuals who have been lying in coma for months or years until they eventually (and miraculously) wake up to see a world that has significantly changed. Famous examp...

Legacies in life histories.

Complex life-histories are common in nature, have many important biological consequences, and are an important focal area for integrative biology. For organisms with complex life-histories, a legacy is something handed down from an ancestor or previous stage, and can be genetic, nutritional/provisional, experiential, as well as the result of random chance and natural variation in the environmen...

10 Problems Concerning the Structure of Consciousness

While still in the practice of neurosurgery, I was called one day to consult on a case some 200 miles distant. A 14-year-old girl had fallen from a rapidly moving automobile when its rear door inadvertently opened. She had lacerated her scalp badly, and, when the emergency procedures to stop the bleeding were accomplished, I was called, because the family physician was afraid that the patient's...

Macroparasite Life Histories

Parasites and parasitism is common. Worm macroparasites have evolved life-history traits that allow them to successfully transmit between spatially and temporally separated patches of host resource and to survive within these environments. Macroparasites have common life-history strategies to achieve this, but these general themes are modified in a myriad of ways related to the specific biology...