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Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"
(Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 2006)
Fair Measures: A Behavioral Realist Revision of "Affirmative Action"
(California Law Review Inc., 2006)
New facts recently discovered in the mind and behavioral sciences have the potential to transform both lay and expert conceptions of affirmative action. Drawing on recent findings in implicit social cognition (ISC) and ...
Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2006)
We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher ...
The Neolithic Settlement of Highland SW Iran: New Evidence from the Mamasani District
(British Institute of Persian Studies, 2006)
Since November 2002, the Mamasani Archaeological Project, a collaborative research initiative between the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR) and the University of Sydney, has been conducting fieldwork in ...
Genetics, development and evolution of adaptive pigmentation in vertebrates
(Nature Publishing Group, 2006)
The study of pigmentation has played an important role in the intersection of evolution, genetics, and developmental biology. Pigmentation's utility as a visible phenotypic marker has resulted in over 100 years of intense ...
Adaptive Evolution of Fertilization Proteins within a Genus: Variation in ZP2 and ZP3 in Deer Mice (Peromyscus)
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2006)
Rapid evolution of reproductive proteins has been documented in a wide variety of taxa. In internally fertilized species, knowledge about the evolutionary dynamics of these proteins between closely related taxa is primarily ...
Sixty polymorphic microsatellite markers for the oldfield mouse developed in Peromyscus polionotus and Peromyscus maniculatus
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
We isolated and characterized 60 novel microsatellite markers from the closely related oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) and deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) for studies of conservation, ecological, quantitative ...
A Single Amino Acid Mutation Contributes to Adaptive Beach Mouse Color Pattern
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006)
Natural populations of beach mice exhibit a characteristic color pattern, relative to their mainland conspecifics, driven by natural selection for crypsis. We identified a derived, charge-changing amino acid mutation in ...
Sexual Harassment: The Global and the Local
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)