GONIONEMUS SUVAENSIS : STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS, DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES AND ECOLOGY

Evolutionary Ecology and Developmental Instability

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in developmental instability, reflected in fluctuating asymmetry, as a concept in evolutionary ecology. Many investigations interpret fluctuating asymmetry in populations or subsets of populations as reflecting the existence of, or at least the potential for, natural or sexual selection. However, the biological and nonbiological factors under­ l...

ADHD Through Different Developmental Stages

Thermal and Developmental Ecology of Pupfish, Cyprinodon

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Morphological spelling strategies: developmental stages and processes.

The spelling of many words in English and in other orthographies involves patterns determined by morphology (e.g., ed in past regular verbs). The authors report a longitudinal study that shows that when children first adopt such spelling patterns, they do so with little regard for their morphological basis. They generalize the patterns to grammatically inappropriate words (e.g., sofed for soft)...

Structural Patterns of Chinese Characters

Chinese characters, as used in Chinese and Japanese for or-thography,* bear inherent meanings as well as sound shapes. Apart from these aspects, the graphic patterns of the characters also vary in complex ways and they appear very different over a wide range. It is obvious to native users of these characters, however, that the graphic patterns are mostly composed of different but frequently use...