Introductory comments on major papers by Professor Motoo Kimura

Motoo Kimura (1924-1994).

Some Comments on Professor

In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

Motoo Kimura and James Crow on the Infinitely Many Alleles Model.

Kimura and Crow’s 1964 article is justly regarded as one of the foundational articles of evolutionary molecular genetics. It is based on what they called the “infinite alleles” model (now called the “infinitely many alleles” model). This model was motivated by the recognition that a gene is a sequence of perhaps several thousand nucleotides, implying that an astronomically large number of allel...

Introductory Comments

This is the first issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in many years to be devoted to a special topic. It emerged after much discussion among the editors about the value of dedicating resources to a single topic and the value of the topic itself. We hope that readers will agree that the papers comprising this issue on unconscious1 forms of stereotyping and prejudice make such ...

Comments on classical papers.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF LACTIC ACID in muscle contraction and at the whole body level? Since the beginning of the 20th century physiologists have known that when an isolated, unperfused frog muscle was stimulated to contract, lactic acid was produced as part of the contractile response and that oxygen was necessary during recovery to metabolize the lactic acid to eliminate its presence. These pheno...