The hopeless ape

Splendid but Hopeless

the city centre, Gradually however the crowd thinned slightly, the driver put his foot down and after a certain amount of stuttering and coughing, the ailing vehicle slowly built up speed. Thereafter the driver's technique for dealing with any obstacle was to blow his horn and accelerate towards it. Miraculously the obstacle would melt away at the very last moment, or if it didn't, we simply sw...

Carcinoma of the cervix - the hopeless disease.

A . Meyrier ) A hopeless case ?

End-stage renal failure in an octogenarian with advanced congestive heart failure is a daunting challenge for the physician. Many of these patients cannot tolerate haemodialysis, due to severely impaired left-ventricular function, valvular disease or both. In such patients, peritoneal dialysis may be the only feasible option but home therapy is often impossible, due to age, comorbidity and lack...

Ape alert

Perhaps the last major effort to save the world’s great apes from extinction has been launched at a recent meeting held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of 23 home states of the great apes. The meeting included an unusually broad range of interests for a conservation issue, with businesses, industry and communities joining up with scientists, environmental agencies and UN bodies to ...

Package ‘ ape ’

Description Functions for reading, writing, plotting, and manipulating phylogenetic trees, analyses of comparative data in a phylogenetic framework, ancestral character analyses, analyses of diversification and macroevolution, computing distances from DNA sequences, reading and writing nucleotide sequences as well as importing from BioConductor, and several tools such as Mantel's test, generali...