The shapes of artiodactyl headgear play key roles in interactions with their environment and each other. Consequently, headgear morphology can be used to predict behavior. For example, larger, recurved horns are typical ...

The importance of good sleep cannot be overstated. What makes sleep “good”, productive, and beneficial are of interest to any sleep researcher. Studying morphology of sleep features can provide insight about what differentiates ...

Understanding the evolution of host seeking behavior is crucial to conceptualizing the evolutionary rise of parasitism and for the formulation of future treatments. Over a billion people are infected by parasitic nematodes, ...

Demon, allegory, exile, Scandinavian zombie—Grendel, the first of the monsters in the Old English Beowulf, has been called all of these. But lost in the arguments about what he means is the very basic question of what he ...

The Rarómuri, or Urique Tarahumara (UT), language belongs to the Taracahitian sub-branch of the Uto-Aztecan family. There are five major linguistics variants called Tarahumara, all spoken in Chihuahua state in northern ...

The current study examined the relation of impulsivity and obesity in three neuroimaging studies using MRI techniques to test the hypothesis that deficits in brain regions responsible for inhibitory control are associated ...

In this dissertation, we investigate how speakers produce wordforms they may not have heard before. Paradigm Uniformity (PU) is the cross-linguistic bias against stem changes, particularly large changes. We propose the ...

The Heteromyidae (pocket mice and kangaroo rats) are a group of extant small rodents abundant in North American Cenozoic fossil assemblages. Two genera of heteromyids, Chaetodipus and Perognathus, share similar tooth ...