Review: Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams

Lori-Anne Williams, BESc

1 From the Imaging Division, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada (L.A.W., N.G., P.A.P., D.S.L., V.K.H., R.T.T.); Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (L.A.W., N.G., P.A.P., R.T.T.); Departments of Nuclear Medicine (L.A.W.), Radiology (N.G., R.T.T.), and Maternal and Newborn Health (D.S.L., V.K.H.), St Joseph’s Health Care...

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Anne Magurran

The overwhelming appeal of the concept of evolution through natural selection has focused the minds of generations of biologists on trends, and the similarities and differences between organisms that is grist to the mill of taxonomists. “To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, ‘Where is the imagination that has been lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge that has been lost in information?’ This book is...

Language in Williams syndrome 1 Language abilities in Williams syndrome: a critical review

Williams syndrome is a rare genetic disorder in which, it is claimed, language abilities are relatively strong despite mild to moderate mental retardation. Such claims have, in turn, been interpreted as evidence either for modular preservation of language or for atypical constraints on cognitive development. However, this review demonstrates that there is, in fact, little evidence that syntax, ...