Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing
specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and …

Analyses of morphological disparity have been used to characterize and investigate the
evolution of variation in the anatomy, function and ecology of organisms since the 1980s. While …

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) were formed on gold colloids in 50% aqueous ethanol
in the presence of alkanethiols, HS(CH 2 ) n R, where R represents a series of neutral and …

The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity
and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely …

Matrices coming from elliptic partial differential equations have been shown to have a low-rank
property: well-defined off-diagonal blocks of their Schur complements can be …

Many treatments for cardiovascular diseases include an endovascular insertion of stents or
stent grafts into arteries, a procedure which may cause high tissue stresses and even …

Relative brain size has long been considered a reflection of cognitive capacities and has
played a fundamental role in developing core theories in the life sciences. Yet, the notion that …

By varying excitation energy from ultraviolet to infrared, Raman spectra obtained from both
cokes and pyrocarbons revealed the evolution of each band. While the spectra of different …

Retouchers are fragments of bone used during the Paleolithic to strike stone flakes in order
to transform them into retouched tools. Our experiments show that the mark produced on …

The evolution of mammalian brain size is directly linked with the evolution of the brain's
unique structure and performance. Both maternal life history investment traits and basal …