This chapter presents a theory of brain and life span evolution and applies it to both primates in general, and to the hominid line, in particular. To address the simultaneous effects of natural selection on the brain and on the life span, it extends the standard life history theory in biology which organizes research into the evolutionary forces shaping age-schedules of fertility and mortality...

INTRODUCTION From the very dawn of civilization, as soon as any ethical conceptions of justice began to be entertained, it must have been incumbent on magistrates and juristic officials everywhere to try to differentiate between accidental death, murder, and suicide. Soon other, similar questions began to arise as well, questions concerned with poisoning, wounding, arson, virginity, miscarriage...

This paper discusses the innovativeness of Inheritance Ordinance introduced in Toledo during 12th century and later reintroduced Fez Morocco following expulsion Jewish communities from Spain Portugal. Community leaders Toledo, after also Fes, transformed laws succession established biblical times by granting women equal rights on matters inheritance marriage. The ordinance granted unmarried dau...

Hatred and persecution of the Jews, which since the [ate 19th century has been termed anti-Semitism, has a 3500-year history. It is not the uniqueness of its style and forms that is amazing, but rather its incredible historical similarity: from Egypt to Babylonia to Rome to Isabella's Spain to present-day Russia. Much has been written on the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. During the late 1940...

In Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, 1953, " ethics " is defined as " the science of moral duty; more broadly the science of the ideal human character and the ideal ends of human action. " From a more pragmatic point of view, ethics in the medical world and, more specifically , in pain medicine, is, by and large, a road-map that allows us to keep practicing in the face of ...

His method of working involves very close study of the texts in order to uncover the medical concepts of their authors. For example, when he analyses the vocabulary of disease, showing how diseases are described and named, his conclusions illuminate the question of the extent to which individual characteristics ofthe patient are thought to influence the symptoms and course of the disease. One c...