Mesozoic aviary takes form

Biology takes form: animal morphology and the German universities

nervous functions and of the reduction of human performance to instincts, drives, reflexes or other part processes. Forced out of his work, while he waited in Amsterdam in 1934 for a visa for the United States, he took the opportunity-by his own account, five weeks that exhausted both his typist and himself-to clarify the theoretical basis of his medical work. This book is the result, the "clas...

The AVIARY VR-system. A Prototype Implementation

The AVIARY project at the University of Manchester has sought to understand the needs of a mature VR-based environment in which diverse applications co-exist, and in which the need for perceptual coherency of the environment is also crucial. A novel feature of AVIARY is that multiple, worlds may concurrently exist, each with its own set of laws which may be tailored to suit particular applicati...

Wire(less)tapping in the Aviary

The Mesozoic Lacustrine Revolution

The Mesozoic lacustrine revolution (MLR) represents a major evolutionary event in the continental realm (Cohen 2003 ). The decline in taxic diversity at the family level in lacustrine environments that took place during the late Paleozoic–Middle Triassic was reversed later in the Mesozoic, with diversifi cation seeming to have continued to the Quaternary, although potential biases may have affe...

It takes the time that it takes.

It was five days before my first Christmas in Perth, Australia, and our family had begun to arrive the night before. As the rest of household slept, I quickly threw on a skirt and tank top and left to attend the memorial service for one of my study participants, a 57-year old Anglican minister who had died from motor neurone disease (MND). Though I feared I would be late, I could see people mil...