Gérard Genette de Bardadrac a Postscript

A postscript

numerous contributions to the discussion of general questions in evolutionary biology, and for providing an evolutionary perspective on other areas of biology, such as ecology and development. He was a persistent critic of group-selectionist thinking and of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. He published fourteen books and collections of papers on an astonishing diversity of subjects, as wel...

La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gérard de Lairesse, peintre en Hollande. Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper

Credit for the discovery of penicillin and its antibacterial effects has been ascribed in varying degrees in the past either to Fleming or to Florey and Chain, all recipients of a Nobel Prize in 1945. Sheehan certainly makes no secret of his support of Fleming, and his facts and arguments are presented to this end. There will be many readers who disagree. The exploitation of the drug in the ear...

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A postscript on cryotypes.

Phylogenetic analysis is a theoretical construct that employs a nested hierarchy of 'subroutines' to relate discrete elements ('phyle' from the Greek for 'tribes') to their wider origins ('genesis' from the Greek for 'birth' or 'origins'). Its modern usage ranges from molecular biology to ecology, where it may be used to relate elements not connected by DNA (Wanntorp et al., 1990). Cryotypes ma...

Gérard Maze and Lorenz