I suppose that every teacher of elementary genetics has at one time or another encountered the b lief that in the absence of counteracting factors there should be three times as many dominant as recessive phenotypes in the population. It was this statement that induced G. H. HARDY in 1908 to write his famous paper. He started out somewhat apologetically, saying: “I am reluctant to intrude in a ...

Osteotomy of the neck of the first metatarsal bone has been practised for many years in the treatment of hallux valgus. Although various techniques have been described (Hohmann 1948 ; Mitchell, Fleming, Allen, Glenney and Sanford 1958), we are aware of only one detailed report of results (Mitchell et a!. 1958). This paper presents the results of osteotomy in eighty-two feet, and attempts to def...

We propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: representing, effecting, and changing. The representing self encompasses the ways in which people depict...

The existence of a 60-100 year periodic variation in solar and/or solar-terrestrial phenomena has been a matter of dispute for many years. A wide variety of data sets previously have been analyzed, and the results of the analyses have been interpreted as showing evidence ither for or against such a variation. However, all data sets that are proxy for solar wind in the ecliptic at 1 AU show vari...

Science is said tobe free inSweden in the sense that scientists areallowed todo researchonany subject, but there isone very serious limitation: theworkhas tobe funded.The latter aspecthasbecome increasingly evidentduring later years. In many ways, research was more free decades ago whenmore money was directly allocated to universities and their departments. Inthisway, islandsofresearchcouldmore...

The chimpanzee is our closest living relative. The morphological differences between the two species are so large that there is no problem in distinguishing between them. However, the nucleotide difference between the two species is surprisingly small. The early genome comparison by DNA hybridization techniques suggested a nucleotide difference of 1-2%. Recently, direct nucleotide sequencing co...