Ontogeny and Phylogeny [12] is a book published in 1977, in which the author Stephen J. Gould, who worked in the US, tells a history of the theory of recapitulation. A theory of recapitulation aims to explain the relationship between the embryonic development of an organism (ontogeny [13]) and the evolution [14] of that organism's species (phylogeny [15]). Although there are several variations ...

Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was the most highly regarded American scientist of the early and middle 19th century. Thanks largely to Stephen Jay Gould's book The Mismeasure of Man, Morton's cranial capacity measurements of different races is now held up as a prime example of and cautionary tale against scientific racism. A team of anthropologists recently reevaluated Morton's work and argue...

A recent astroph posting argued that the Gould (2003a) halo sample is substantially contaminated with thickdisk stars, which would then “wash out” any signature of granularity in the halo velocity distribution due to streams. If correct, this would imply that the limits placed by Gould (2003b) on streams are not valid. Here I investigate such contamination using six different indicators, 1) mor...

Stephen Jay Gould famously used the work of Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) to illustrate how unconscious racial bias could affect scientific measurement. Morton had published measurements of the average cranial capacities of different races, measurements that Gould reanalyzed in an article in Science [1] and then later in his widely read book The Mismeasure of Man [2]. During the course of th...

1. Terranova G, Ferro M, Carpeggiani C, et al. Low quality and lack of clarity of current informed consent forms in cardiology: how to improve them. J Am Coll Cardiol Img 2012;5:649–55. 2. Gould KL, Pan T, Loghin C, Johnson NP, Guha A, Sdringola S. Frequent diagnostic errors in cardiac PET/CT due to misregistration of CT attenuation and emission PET images: a definitive analysis of causes, cons...

Proportional odds models are commonly used to model ordinal responses, but the proportional assumption may not hold in practice, leading biased inference. Tests such as score, Wald and likelihood ratio (LR) have been proposed evaluate based on without assumption. Brant has an independent binary model-based Wald-type test, Wolfe Gould extended idea propose LR-type test. This paper provides a bri...

PURPOSE To review the outcome of the modified Brostrom-Evans-Gould technique in patients with chronic lateral ankle ligament instability. METHODS Between August 2003 and June 2005, 20 men aged 19 to 35 (mean, 23) years with chronic lateral instability affecting 21 ankles, underwent the modified Brostrom-Evans-Gould technique by a single surgeon. The mean follow-up period was 12 (range, 6-20) ...

1. Terranova G, Ferro M, Carpeggiani C, et al. Low quality and lack of clarity of current informed consent forms in cardiology: how to improve them. J Am Coll Cardiol Img 2012;5:649–55. 2. Gould KL, Pan T, Loghin C, Johnson NP, Guha A, Sdringola S. Frequent diagnostic errors in cardiac PET/CT due to misregistration of CT attenuation and emission PET images: a definitive analysis of causes, cons...