R concern has been raised over the existence of obvious taxonomic biases in contemporary literature on ecology, evolution, and conservation biology (Bonnet et al. 2002, Stein et al. 2002, Clark and May 2002a, 2002b). For example, Bonnet and colleagues (2002) show that that an apparent, albeit subliminal, bias toward homeothermic (endothermic) fauna affords research on these groups greater publi...

Richard Levins has advocated the scientific merits of qualitative modeling throughout his career. He believed an excessive and uncritical focus on emulating the models used by physicists and maximizing quantitative precision was hindering biological theorizing in particular. Greater emphasis on qualitative properties of modeled systems would help counteract this tendency, and Levins subsequentl...

Recent technical advances in the stem cell field have enabled the in vitro generation of complex structures resembling whole organs termed organoids. Most of these approaches employ three-dimensional (3D) culture systems that allow stem cell-derived or tissue progenitor cells to self-organize into 3D structures. These systems evolved, methodologically and conceptually, from classical reaggregat...

Do material interests shape a person’s views on immigration? If so, how? In a widely cited study, Gordon Hanson, Kenneth Scheve, and Matthew J. Slaughter contend that the public finance environment of each U.S. state affects the way an individual’s skill level influences her or his support for immigration. Jens Hainmueller and Michael J. Hiscox disagree with the public finance argument and have...

A practice-based method is advanced to understand the emergence and transformation of agricultural practices in the Upper Wahgi valley during the Holocene. Conceptually, practices represent the nexus of human–environment interactions, as well as of structure–agency relationships, while methodologically, they are the visible remains – whether encountered directly through archaeology, or inferred...

The purpose of this research is to develop a conceptually and methodologically sound measure of group faultlines (demographic alignment of members along multiple attributes within a group). This measure takes into account the concept of faultline strength (the extent of a demographic alignment across members within a group) and, thus far neglected in past work, the concept of faultline distance...

Recently, experts have suggested that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a highly heterogeneous condition, is actually composed of distinct subtypes. Research to identify specific subtypes of OCD has focused primarily on symptom presentation. Subtype models have been proposed using factor analyses that yield dimensional systems of symptom categories, but not necessarily distinct subtypes. Oth...