Where Did That Peak Come From?

Where did bone come from?

Bone is specific to vertebrates, and originated as mineralization around the basal membrane of the throat or skin, giving rise to tooth-like structures and protective shields in animals with a soft cartilage-like endoskeleton. A combination of fossil anatomy and genetic information from modern species has improved our understanding of the evolution of bone. Thus, even in man, there are still si...

WNV: where in the world did that come from?

Where did knowledge management come from?

In this essay I look at the history of knowledge management and offer insights into what knowledge management means today and where it may be headed in the future. N ow that knowledge management is widely known and practiced in many large organizations , it might be useful to look back a bit and try to give some perspective on how this old but new subject developed and, in particular, what some...

Sexual selection in hermaphrodites: where did our ideas come from?

Interpretations of hermaphroditism have been influenced by the old idea that organisms can be arranged in a series from lower to higher, with human beings at the top, leading toward the angels and God (the scala naturae). The consequent notion that hermaphroditism is a primitive condition is still with us. Such issues need to be addressed empirically, in a phylogenetic context. Darwin's theory ...

Information architecture in JASIST: Just where did we come from?

The emergence of Information Architecture within the information systems world has been simultaneously drawn out yet rapid. Those with an eye on history are quick to point to Wurman’s 1976 use of the term “architecture of information,” but it has only been in the last 2 years that IA has become the source of sufficient interest for people to label themselves professionally as Information Archit...