Advances in Age-Old Questions

Age-old genetic questions.

Technologies , Old Questions

The recent emergence of new media, or better, new communication technologies, has afforded substantial commentary regarding societal effects, the latest chapter in a decades-old trend that rises and falls with each new communication technology. Whereas this article does not deny that the current generation of communication technologies differs from predecessors, it argues against the need for w...

Advances in gout: some answers, more questions

In a previous issue of the journal, Becker and colleagues present efficacy and safety data from a large study comparing febuxostat to allopurinol. The study showed non-inferiority of febuxostat 40 mg/day in lowering serum urate compared to allopurinol 200 to 300 mg/day. More importantly, the study showed a similar frequency of important cardiovascular adverse events (cardiovascular death, nonfa...

New Answers to Old Questions

I use cross-cultural ethnographic data to explore the relationship between male and female subsistence labor among hunter-gatherer populations by examining data regarding resource procurement, time allocation, and task differentiation between the sexes relative to dependence on hunted foods. The findings indicate that female foragers generally perform a variety of nonsubsistence collection acti...

Memory: Old questions, new perspectives

Studies with targeted mouse mutants are helping to clarify our understanding of cellular mechanisms that underlie memory. Now this approach is also providing tools for resolving controversies about cognitive processes in memory that have perplexed behavioral scientists for many years.