The central themes of community ecology—distribution, abundance, and diversity—display
strongly marked and very general patterns. These include the log-normal distribution of …

A review of evidence relating to the hypothesis that an increase in reproduction at a given
age is associated with a decrease in expected reproduction at later ages. Most of the data …

Darwin insisted that evolutionary change occurs very slowly over long periods of time, and
this gradualist view was accepted by his supporters and incorporated into the infinitesimal …

A genetic interaction network containing ∼1000 genes and ∼4000 interactions was mapped
by crossing mutations in 132 different query genes into a set of ∼4700 viable gene yeast …

Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of
the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution. The book suggests that sex …

Background Preclinical data suggest that general anaesthetics affect brain development.
There is mixed evidence from cohort studies that young children exposed to anaesthesia can …

This paper identifies the effects of different types of reproductive cost on the pattern of life
histories. By reproductive cost I mean the generally deleterious effect of present reproduction …

This paper presents a complete design methodology for Cartesian position based visual servo
control for robots with a single camera mounted at the end-effector. Position based visual …

Most flowers are bisexual in function, but counting secondary allocation to attractive structures
such as the corolla as equally male and female leads to the paradoxical conclusion that …

This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution
and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples drawn from microbial, plant and …