A new species, Myrsidea willardi, is described from the Schlegel’s Asity, Philepitta schlegeli, from Madagascar. The only previously described species from the host family Philepittidae, Myrsidea minuscula (Piaget), is redescribed and illustrated. These two species of lice show pronounced genetic divergence based on partial mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequences.

The most well-known form of learning and knowledge acquisition is motor experience [1]. Although models and theories have found it difficult to account for the wide range of empirical evidence in developmental studies [2], motor experience appears to be critical for cognitive development of typically developing children [3-6]. Through physical manipulation, exploration and interaction with the ...

Building on a historiography that is in full expansion, we are focusing our attention the sociogenesis of “educational internationalism”, by studying way which agents and organisations claim to belong this movement have executed their commitments reconfigured them over decades. After having studied groups work within International Bureau Education (IBE) – aims build peace through science educat...

Mechanism schemata are one of the least understood parts of MDC’s account of mechanistic explanation. Relatedly, there is a common misconception that there is no place for abstraction in MDC mechanisms. These two problems can be remedied by looking more carefully at what MDC say both in their 2000 paper and elsewhere about schemata and abstraction, and by following up on a comment of Machamer’s...

t h a t a s many a s 50 p e r c e n t o f o u r c o l l e g e f reshmen are n o t capab le . much less f a c i l e w i t h f o r m a l o p e r a t i o n a l t h o u g h t p r o c e s s e s (Tomlinson-Keasey, 1972: Wason, 1968: L o v e l l . 1961; Karplus . 1974) . F u r t h e r . t h e e v i d e n c e t h a t t h e a c g u i s i t i o n of formal o p e r a t i o n a l thought p r o c e s s e s ...