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Are coral reefs victims of their own past success?

As one of the most prolific and widespread reef builders, the staghorn coral Acropora holds a disproportionately large role in how coral reefs will respond to accelerating anthropogenic change. We show that although Acropora has a diverse history extended over the past 50 million years, it was not a dominant reef builder until the onset of high-amplitude glacioeustatic sea-level fluctuations 1....

Can We Become Victims of Our Own Success?

T he last 5 years seem to have marked a transition in the history of diabetes care. Whereas for two decades we have preached the importance of good glycemic control to manage the risk of diabetes associated complications, the truth of the matter is that rarely did patients with diabetes achieve target A1C levels Ͻ7%. As reported in Diabetes Care in 20008 in an analysis of the National Health an...

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Chimpanzees predict that a competitor's preference will match their own.

The ability to predict how another individual will behave is useful in social competition. Chimpanzees can predict the behaviour of another based on what they observe her to see, hear, know and infer. Here we show that chimpanzees act on the assumption that others have preferences that match their own. All subjects began with a preference for a box with a picture of food over one with a picture...

The cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular medicine: victims of our own success?