IN examining various groups of plants, in the hope of finding one which would throw fresh light on the question of sex determination, the dioecious forms of Lychnis suggested themselves as being particularly suitable. The genus Lychnis, as a whole, is hermaphrodite, and even the dioecious species may readily exhibit this character. In the female flower rudiments of stamens are always present an...

The evolution of sexual dimorphism has long been attributed to sexual selection, specifically as it would drive repeated gains of elaborate male traits. In contrast to this pattern, New World oriole species all exhibit elaborate male plumage, and the repeated gains of sexual dichromatism observed in the genus are due to losses of female elaboration. Interestingly, most sexually dichromatic orio...

This preregistered experiment aimed to investigate the impact of background information regarding an alleged victim child sexual abuse on police investigators’ perception credibility victim’s statement, expected case outcome, and type questions investigators plan ask in investigative interview. We that age description character would affect perceived credibility, prediction prosecution use bias...

Parvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge English language and education at American school for girls as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to appreciation modern ideas, including women’s rights. Unlike some contemporaries early twentieth century who tried revolutio...