Sexual conflict drives both inter- and intrasexual dimorphisms in many diving beetles, where male persistence and female resistance traits co-evolve in an antagonistic manner. To date most studies have focussed on species where rough and smooth females and their associated males typically co-occur within populations, where phenotype matching between morphs may maintain forms as stable polymorph...

In contrast, therefore, to the publisher's note of ".... easily understood levels-of-organization approach" and an ". . . enlivening and enlightening prologue to any introductory biology course," beginning students may possibly be baffled by the breadth and intangible nature of biological science. The value of the book resides more, if not exclusively, as the ". . . profitable epilogue" to biol...

In his seminal book, ‘The Strategy of Preventive Medicine,’ the English epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose suggested that true epidemiology involves looking not just at the cause of a disease, but at the ‘cause of the cause’ and the ‘cause of the cause of the cause’ [1] . A quarter of a century earlier, Susan Sontag (‘Illness as Metaphor’) stated that: ‘any important disease whose causality is murky ...