Editor's Corner: Brain Death: Tread Lightly, Treat Vigorously

Tread lightly: insect tibias buckle under pressure.

Breaststroke, butterfly, front crawl and back crawl: many of us learnt these swimming styles as kids while splashing around in our local pool. These strokes all involve the swimmer lying on their back or front, much like the way most fish swim. Of course, some people prefer to swim tilted to one side rather than face down even though the side-stroke evokes images of elderly swimmers in bathing ...

Tread Lightly Interpreting Polygenic Tests of Selection

In this issue of GENETICS, a new method for detecting natural selection on polygenic traits is developed and applied to several human examples (Racimo et al. 2018). By definition, many loci contribute to variation in polygenic traits, and a challenge for evolutionary geneticists has been that these traits can evolve by small, nearly undetectable shifts in allele frequencies across each of many,...

Liberty or death; don't tread on me.

Many jurisdictions require cyclists to wear bicycle helmets. The UK is currently not one of these. However, an increasing number of interest groups, including the British Medical Association, want to change the status quo. They argue that mandatory cycle helmet laws will reduce the incidence of head injuries and that this will be both good for cyclists (because they will suffer fewer head injur...

Unintended Consequences: Why Congress Should Tread Lightly When Entering the Field of Family Law

brain death

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