Abstract According to an influential view, when it comes representing reality, some words are better suited for the job than others. This is elitism. There reason believe that set of best, or elite, should not be redundant arbitrary. However, we often forced choose between these two theoretical vices, especially in cases involving theories seem mere notational variants. riddle redundancy: both ...

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INTRODUCTION. THE work of Hertwig (1912) on the frog has shown that "over-ripening" of the eggs leads to an effective modification of the sex-ratio in the direction of an increased production of males. Adler (1920) examining the thyroids of the larvae arising from such " over-ripe" fertilised eggs found that they are larger than in normal individuals, and that the differentiation of the thyroid...

Contractile rings consisting of actin filaments and myosin-2 have long been known to power cytokinesis, but recent work has shown that single-cell and multicellular actomyosin rings participate in processes ranging from wound healing to extrusion of apoptotic cells from epithelia.