Many have pondered the potential impact of Mendel's work if Darwin had come across it in his lifetime. Darwin found difficulty with a blending inheritance and natural selection but a new letter suggests he was grappling with a more modern view. Nigel Williams reports.

Qiang Lu,1 Nigel Marks,2 George C. Schatz,3 and Ted Belytschko1,* 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3111, USA 2School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia 3Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA Received 18 May 2007; pu...

Worldwide ADNI Update – July, 2012 Maria Carrillo, Michael Weiner, Paul Aisen, Ronald Petersen, Cliff Jack, William Jagust, Leslie Shaw, Robert Green, Andrew Saykin, Nigel Cairns, Michael Donohue, Giovanni Frisoni, Takeshi Iwatsubo, Chris Rowe, Kathryn Ellis, Sandra Black, Kuncheng Li, Gustavo Sevlever, Chantal Bazenet, Andy Simmons, Johan Luthman, Seong Yoon Kim, Ken Marek, Arthur Toga. Lisa J...

This article examines the possibility that romantic love (with intensity, engagement, and sexual interest) can exist in long-term relationships. A review of taxonomies, theory, and research suggests that romantic love, without the obsession component typical of early stage romantic love, can and does exist in long-term marriages, and is associated with marital satisfaction, well-being, and high...

Five studies investigated the links among narcissism, self-esteem, and love. Across all studies, narcissism was associated primarily with a game-playing love style. This link was found in reports of general love styles (Study 1a) and of love in ongoing romantic relationships (Studies 1b-3, 5). Narcissists' game-playing love style was the result of a need for power and autonomy (Study 2) and was...

MARRIAGE FOR THE MARRIED By Dr. Mary Macaulay. (Delisle, 12s. 6d.) Here are two books about love and loving relationships written by two worldly wise and experienced people. While one is about love outside marriage, and the other about it within the marriage-bond, both authors base their books on the belief that each person is seeking in life a satisfying loving relationship with another, and this

Abstract The anti-Catullan and anti-elegiac perspective characterizing Horace's erotic Odes builds on elements of the biography his persona found in juvenile collections, Satires Epodes , where construction poetic autobiography as a lover brings together matters didactics, ethics literary criticism.