In the SerboCroatian language, the relative order of subject (S), verb (V), and object (a) is flexible. All six of the pe1'mutations of those elements have identical words, meaning, and voice, and all six are grammatically acceptable. Nonetheless, sva is the dominant form. The psychological reality of this dominance was assessed in three tasb. S va was associated with the shortest latencies (an...

In response to our paper testing whether mistletoe represents a keystone resource [1], Thomsen & Wernberg (TW) [2] integrated our experiment with previous work and introduced a novel hypothesis to explain how structural complexity influences community composition. While we share their enthusiasm for unveiling generalized determinants of diversity, we caution that their approach may overlook som...

The euphoria of technology In an earlier commentary (Kong, 1999), I raised the issue of distance from the c̀entre' as a barrier to a researcher's participation in the academic circuit, despite the advent of technology and the possibilities it brings of decreasing relative distance. In this commentary, I wish to focus on what technology may and may not do for teaching and learning, and thus to ba...

IN a recent essay titled “Talking about the Genome,” paragingly called garbage species by the eminent evolutionist, Theodosius Dobzhansky. The endemic (or ecothe distinguished historian of recent science, Horace Freeland Judson (2001), made an incisive and cologically specialist) species constitute the second group; their distribution is circumscribed by their hosts, and gent plea for scientifi...

Smith and Petticrew succinctly outline the challenges we face in evaluating the impact of public health interventions tackling social determinants: challenges driven by multiple agencies with varying and sometimes conflicting interests, complex causal pathways and outcomes that extend beyond health. Looking ahead they call for a new evaluation approach, one that focuses on the whole before it f...

Medical students are taught that endothelial dysfunction is relevant to the pathophysiology of diabetic microvascular disease, especially the glomerular defects that are characteristic of diabetic nephropathy. The facts, however, belie a paucity of knowledge about the molecular biology of the glomeruli of humans with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Which genes are activated in the glomerular endothe...

The presence of hierarchy is a ubiquitous feature of human social groups. An evolutionary perspective provides novel insight into the nature of hierarchy, including its causes and consequences. When integrated with theory and data from social psychology, an evolutionary approach provides a conceptual framework for understanding the Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 54 # 2016 El...

In this remarkable era of modern molecular biology we have been fortunate to be able to perform high throughput investigations of cancer-specific DNA sequence variations, RNA expression profiling, proteomics, and metabolomics with tremendous expectations for their application to the early detection and treatment of human cancer. The ease of obtaining such high dimensional data and the throughpu...

McKay and Dennett’s description of beliefs, and misbeliefs in particular, is a commendable contribution to the literature, but we argue that referring to beliefs as adaptive or maladaptive can cause conceptual confusion. “Adaptive” is inconsistently defined in the article, which adds to confusion and renders it difficult to evaluate the claims, particularly the possibility of “adaptive misbelie...

On July 1, 1858, papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace were read before the Linnean Society. This was the first public presentation of their ideas about how natural variation arose and proliferated into new, diverse species. The meeting had been scheduled for June, but had to be rescheduled because of the death of the Society’s vice-president (see Wikipedia, ‘‘Linnean Society’’). ...