M Atkinson, M Lakhanpaul, A Smyth, H Vyas, V Weston, J Sithole, V Owen, K Halliday, H Sammons, J Crane, N Guntupalli, L Walton, T Ninan, A Morjaria, T Stephenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Throughout the Origin of Species, Darwin contrasts his theory of natural selection with the theory that God independently created each species. This makes it seem as though the Origin offers a scientific alternative to a theological worldview. A few months after the Origin appeared, however, the eminent anatomist Richard Owen published a review that pointed out the theological assumptions of Da...

Analytic results indicate that many heads often can be better than one even when none o f the added heads is as individually compe ten t as the first . We define individual competence (accuracy) in a dichotomous choice situation as the probability Pi of making the 'correct' or 'better' choice.~ Condorcet (1785) shows that if each person has equal competence, and if that competence, pi, is great...

Author's response to reviews: I have made some minor modifications to the previously submitted versions based on comments from Assistant Editor Claire Owen. These changes are related to style and organization, not to content.

It has been shown (Owen, 1948 a, b) that thyroxine increases the percentage of phosphorus in cow milk without affecting the percentages of nitrogen or calcium. Experiments were therefore planned (for preliminary reports see Chanda & Owen, 1949a, b) with the object ofpartitioning the phosphorus in the milk of cows treated with thyroxine to find out whether any particular type of phosphorus compo...