The CMB’s B-mode polarization provides a handle on several cosmological parameters most notably the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, and is sensitive to parameters which govern the growth of large scale structure (LSS) and evolution of the gravitational potential. These imprint CMB temperature anisotropy and cause E-to-B-mode polarization conversion via gravitational lensing. The CMB has also the pot...

The influence of the evolutionary theory is widespread in modern worldview. Due to its great explanatory power and pervasiveness, the theory of evolution should be used as the organizing theme in biology teaching. For this purpose, the essential concepts of phylogenetic systematics are useful as a didactic instrument. The phylogenetic method was the first objective set of rules to implement in ...

Sequence capture and restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-Seq) are two genomic enrichment strategies for applying next-generation sequencing technologies to systematics studies. At shallow timescales, such as within species, RAD-Seq has been widely adopted among researchers, although there has been little discussion of the potential limitations and benefits of RAD-Seq and sequence ca...

Published research on the diversity and evolutionary history of Arthropoda sets a high standard for data collection and the integration of novel methods. New phylogenetic estimation algorithms, divergence time approaches, collaborative tools and publishing standards, to name a few, were brought to the broader scientific audience in the context of arthropod systematics. The treatment of morpholo...

We quantify the systematic effects on the stellar mass function which arise from assumptions about the stellar population, as well as how one fits the light profiles of the most luminous galaxies at z ∼ 0.1. When comparing results from the literature, we are careful to separate out these effects. Our analysis shows that while systematics in the estimated comoving number density which arise from...

The rapid development of interest inbiodiversity has provided unprecedented opportunities for interactions among disciplines. Although systematic biology and conservation biology have developed largely independently of one another, it is clear now from the burgeoning literature that conservation concerns can motivate systematic studies and that better knowledge of the systematics of organisms c...

Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, which continues Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie), is issued by the State Museum of History and publishes articles general biological interest with a focus on morphological systematics.

INTRODUCTION This paper brings together an account of experimental work in the development of reasoning powers with a theoretical description of thinking derived from both abstract and psychological material. The general model of the mind which is ad-opted here is derived from the descriptions given in J. G. Bennett’s Dramatic Universe, Vol. III. The “forms of thought” employed are derived from...

Current practice in gregarine (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) taxonomy does not include a standard nomenclature and metric set for plane shapes even though most taxonomic works within the group depend on shapebased descriptions. The lack of a uniform shape nomenclature and metric set has produced considerable confusion in gregarine systematics: descriptions of species often are not directly comp...