NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE: Chemical Warfare Service Overseas

Chemical warfare

Leaf-cutting ants are well known for their highly complex social organization, which provides them with a strong defense against parasites invading their colonies. Besides this attribute, these insects have morphological, physiological and structural characteristics further reinforcing the defense of their colonies. With the discovery of symbiotic bacteria present on the integument of leaf-cutt...

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Chemical Warfare Agents

JASs Correspondence & Notes

The knowledge of the evolution of the human genome is strictly dependent on the availability of appropriate genetic markers and their relative coverage of genetic variation which refine the phylogenetic reconstruction. While autosomal markers are particularly valuable for recognizing correspondence between genetic and geographic distances, markers on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or Non Recombining...

JASs Correspondence & Notes

A lot of ink has been spilt in Paleoanthro-pology in discussing whether or not Neander-thals possessed complex language (which means " human language in the modern sense " , quoting Arbib, 2005, p. 21, that is, a representational and communicative system with hierarchical and recursive structure), given their phylogenetic closeness to modern humans. Recently, Frayer et al. (2010) (this journal,...