Gender, Animals, and Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis

Graphene and Cousin Systems

Gender Preselection in Farm Animals

Every living being has a set of paired chromosomes, which carry all the genetic material necessary to maintain life and also to propagate new life. All but one pair of chromosomes are called autosomes and carry genes for all the characteristics of the body, such as skin, hair and eye color, mature size, and body characteristics. The remaining pair are called sex chromosomes. They carry the gene...

Cousin Marriage

It is a great honour to be invited to contribute a lecture to this long-established series* founded to commemorate a very eminent physician of the Bristol Medical School an a member of a family distinguished for services to medicine and to the City over man/ years. I have also seen with particular pleasure that the first Long Fox lecture ^ given by John Beddoe, a pioneer of British anthropology...

Comparison of frequency of cousin and non-cousin marriage among parents of disabled and normal children

Cousin marriage appeared to have a significant role in the birth of disabled children. This is a comparative study on the frequency of cousin and non-cousin marriage among the parents of disabled children and parents of normal children in Kermanshah. In this Ex Post Facto research, employing simple random sampling, 250 parents of disabled children were selected, and the same sample size for par...

Gravity’s Scalar Cousin

The “dilaton”, the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken conformal field theories (in flat spacetime), is argued to provide a surprisingly provocative scalar analog of gravity. Many precise parallels and contrasts are drawn. In particular, the Equivalence Principle, the Cosmological Constant Problem, and the tension between them is shown to be closely replicated. Also, there is a striking tra...