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Emily Dickinson

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...

Hugh Dickinson

Crump interprets the stories, rather than simply recounting them. Her background as a research biologist, and her fi eld experience with native peoples, give her a broad perspective on the topic. She weaves a deft blend of summary and commentary, and often returns to emergent themes. Why do particular species appear in leading roles? Why do snakes and toads so often end up both as hero and vill...

Michael Dickinson

Forgive me, but your publication list looks a bit chaotic. Your lab has worked on sensory physiology, muscle biomechanics, aerodynamics and behavior. Is this a lack of focus or a grand plan? Perhaps a little of both. In graduate school, I was trained as a sensory physiologist, studying the response properties of tiny mechanoreceptors on fly wings. At the time, there was much excitement about th...

Demographic parameters at evolutionary equilibrium' PETER

TAYLOR, P. D., and G . C. W I L I ~ I A M S . 1984. Demographic parameters at evolutionary equilibrium. Can. J . Zool. 62: 2264 -227 1 . We reason that natural selection acting under conditions imposed by physical factors (e.g., geometric constraints on growth rate) and community organization (e.g., persistent finite population sizes, equal total biomass of organisms in proportionately equal si...

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