Thou Shalt Not Diversify: Why ‘two of Every Sort’?

Thou Shall Not Diversify: Why “two of Every Sort”?

This paper presents a study of intertemporal propagation of distributional properties of phenotypes in general polygenic multi-gender inheritance models with sexand time-dependent heritability. It further analyzes the implications of these models under thick-tailedness of traits’ initial distributions. Our results suggest the optimality of a flexible one-sex/two-sex mating system. The switching...

Dracontiasis in antiquity.

Dracontiasis is an infestation of man by the guineaworm, Dracunculus medinensis; a similar infestation also occurs in animals,' and a related species, Dracunculus insignis, is known to infect racoons, mink, and dogs.2 The disease, at the present time, has a wide distribution throughout tropical and subtropical regions ofthe world. The rate of human infestation varies with the possibility of the...

Doctor, thou shalt not kill.

Neuromuscular blockers and ARDS: Thou shalt not breathe, move, or die!

Neuromuscular blockers in early acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Archimedes’ Cattle Problem

If thou art diligent and wise, O stranger, compute the number of cattle of the Sun, who once upon a time grazed on the fields of the Thrinacian isle of Sicily, divided into four herds of different colours, one milk white, another glossy black, the third yellow and the last dappled. In each herd were bulls, mighty in number according to these proportions: Understand, stranger, that the white bul...