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The Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated – An Internal Combustion Engine’s Story

Internal combustion (IC) engines have been around for more than 150 years and helped usher in the industrial age. With the rapid change of technology in the world today, one might suspect that IC engines will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by newer, better technologies. While no one knows the answer yet, a strong case can still be made for the future of the IC engine. Research and develo...

The Human Y Chromosome Rumors of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Recent papers by David Page and his collaborators present an intriguing new face to the human Y chromosome, including eight massive palindromic arrays, most of which contain multi-copy pairs of testis-specific genes. Sequence pairs within the arms of these palindromic sequences retain a high degree of similarity, suggesting that intrachromosomal gene conversion is frequent, perhaps providing a ...

‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’: Scholarly editing in the digital age

Some scholars still doubt that the electronic text has much of a role in humanities, and particularly literary scholarship, when it is compared to the printed book. They fear that that the use of computers blows away all else in its path, leaving nothing standing that we might recognise. Others are enthusiastic about the possibility of the new medium to hold unprecedented amounts of information...

Birdsong performance studies: reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated

Please cite this article in press as: Podos, Behaviour (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ Kroodsma (2017, Animal Behaviour, 125, e1ee16) has critiqued ‘the performance hypothesis’, which posits that two song attributes, trill rate and frequency bandwidth, provide reliable indicators of singer quality and are used as such in mate or rival assessment. Kroodsma develops three main arguments: (1) y...