This Perspectives is a review of the breathtaking history of mammalian genetics in the past century and, in particular, of the ways in which genetic thinking has illuminated aspects of mouse development. To illustrate the power of that thinking, selected hypothesis-driven experiments and technical advances are discussed. Also included in this account are the beginnings of mouse genetics at the ...

We compare total solar irradiance (TSI) and ultraviolet (Fuv) irradiance variation reconstructed using Ca K facular areas since 1915, with previous values based on less direct proxies. Our annual means for 1925 – 1945 reach values 30 – 50 % higher than those presently used in IPCC climate studies. A high facula/sunspot area ratio in spot cycles 16 and 17 seems to be responsible. New evidence fr...

The only known population of the Aldabra banded snail Rhachistia aldabrae declined through the late twentieth century, leading to its extinction in the late 1990s. This occurred within a stable habitat and its extinction is attributable to decreasing rainfall on Aldabra atoll, associated with regional changes in rainfall patterns in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. It is propo...

A space of European de-industrialisation in the late twentieth century: Nord/Pas-de-Calais, Wallonia and the Ruhrgebiet René Leboutte To cite this article: René Leboutte (2009) A space of European de-industrialisation in the late twentieth century: Nord/Pas-de-Calais, Wallonia and the Ruhrgebiet, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 16:5, 755-770, DOI: 10.1080/13507480903262...

In the first decades of the twentieth century a number of famous artists abandoned traditional spatial techniques and experimented with new forms of art: cubism, expressionism, abstract expressionism. Some critics believed that these experiments heralded a new period of non-figurative art. For instance, Novotny claimed that scientific perspective had ended with Cezanne. Arnason, in his standard...

of the book). This does not always make for easy reading, especially since the heavy referencing is not accompanied by a bibliography. On the other hand, he covers a wide canvas and is very good at highlighting the dilemmas always present for industrial health researchers and physicians: without industry the profession can hardly exist, yet working with industry nearly always involves compromis...

Introduction Choosing a starting point and an end for a historiography of the civil procedural laws of twentieth century Europe from the perspective of case management is as simple as choosing these moments in the Europe of the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century the historiography should commence with the French Code de procédure civile, that was adopted in 1806. It was this code, wi...

"Any act which takes a person further from life and nearer to death has been regarded as felony" was the logic of the medieval Europe. Suicide was punishable in Europe till the end of 18th century. Following the French revolution of 1789, attempted suicide was abolished as an offence in France, and soon other countries of Europe followed suit, and the recent addition to this list is England whi...