Nothing is written in stone

The shape of life: how much is written in stone?

Considering the enormous diversity of living organisms, representing mostly untapped resources for studying ecological, ontogenetic and phylogenetic patterns and processes, why should evolutionary biologists concern themselves with the remains of animals and plants that died out tens or even hundreds of millions of years ago? The reason is that important new insights into some of the most vexin...

Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time

Ippolitov, A.P., Vinn, O., Kupriyanova, E.K. and Jäger, M. 2014. Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 123–159. Although the fossil record of annelids in general is poor, calcareous tube-building Serpulidae are a notable exception. The “stumbling block” of understanding the serpulid fossil record is obtaining reliable taxonomic interpreta...

Modern literary interpretation in understanding the meaning of the verse ‘There is nothing like Him’

Numerous views have been expressed by commentators and writers about the literary aspect and the meaning of the Qurchr('39')anic phrase "There is nothing like Him". The sequence of the words "ka" and "like" in the holy verse, has led to two literary and semantic illusions. The literary illusion is that "ka" seems to be redundant and the semantic illusion is the word ‘like’ indirectly proves the...

“If It Is Written by Allah, There Is Nothing That Can Stop It”: Saudi women’s breast cancer narratives

Power Is Nothing Without Control

Cardiac cell–based therapy, after a peak of untimely expectations of miraculous efficacy exceeding standard clinical practice, has faced the cardiological community and funding bodies with a predictable trough of disillusionment. In the light of more recent progresses, the field is by contrast moving toward a competitive differentiation phase, in which the resolution of the complex matching bet...