Deciding Who Lives

Saving lives: who picks up the tab?

Deciding Who to Mate With: Do Female Finches Follow Fashion?

Choosing an appropriate mate is one of the most important decisions that any animal has to make. The traditional view in non-human systems is that animals are largely slaves to their genes and an individual’s mate choice is handed down from their parents. However, in recent years it has become clear that many animals show active decision making in who to mate with and that females may copy mate...

Ropelike birthmarks on children who claim to remember past lives.

Description of birthmarks having the pattern of strands of a rope in a second known case includes some verification of the correspondence between the birthmarks and injuries from ropes on an identified decreased person.

Phobias in Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives

In a series of 387 children who claimed to remember a previous life phobias occurred in 14 1 (36%). The phobias nearly always corresponded to the mode of death in the life of the deceased person the child claimed to remember. They usually manifested between the ages of 2 and 5, and sometimes the child showed the phobia in early infancy before it had begun to speak about a previous life. The pho...

Who Knows Who Lives Here? Within-household Disagreements as a Source of Survey Coverage Error

Who lives in a sampled household is the first and subsampled. Followup interviews were conducted most fundamental thing a survey or census must for 85 percent of eligible individuals–one third with determine, if interviews with its members are to represent the individuals themselves, and the remainder with a population completely. Yet, little systematic attention knowledgeable proxies. has been...