An experiment is carried out on a subset of a first year group in Semester 1, 2001 for five separate fiftyminute sessions. Five groups are taught using one teaching technique based around the idea of passive learning. Five further groups are taught using a second technique based on active learning within small groups. The remaining three groups face a third approach based on a combination of th...

The core concept of phylogenetic systematics is the use of derived or apomorphic characters to reconstruct common ancestry relationships and the grouping of taxa based on common ancestry. This concept, first formalized by Hennig (1950, 1966), has been slowly, and not so quietly, changing the nature of systematics. Why should we be interested in this approach? What about phylogenetic systematics...

Hacki in the present issue of Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is the first of a series of Seminars on Liver Disease which are to appear in successive issues of the Yale Journal. These papers by prominent investigators in the field of liver disease will have been presented at a series of seminars under the sponsorship of the Training Program in Liver Disease at the West Haven Veterans Admin...

This paper discusses a method of teaching theory to graduate students in the context of graduate seminars that are constructed around classical topics—particular ancient texts or authors, specifi c historical or art-historical or archaeological questions, and so forth. This method ties the necessary theory directly to the seminar’s topic, and thereby subordinates the exposition of theory to the...