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| | Cladistics and evolution on display 395
How should museums of natural history exhibit specimens? Is cladistics a proper framework? And is it too agnostic—soft on Neo-Darwinism? The last contribution to the correspondence on these topics is on page 403.
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| | Too much government 396
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| | US industry moves into biotechnology 397
Du Pont sets up new lab, others to come
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/292397a0
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| | Research council plans academic rescue 397
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/292397b0
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| | French universities: Decision postponed 398
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/292398a0
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| | UK nuclear energy: Maintaining course 398
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/292398b0
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| | Science education funding: Pressing claims 398
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/292398c0
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| | A brief respite 399
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/292399a0
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| | EEC hormone legislation: First another report 399
Jasper Becker
doi:10.1038/292399b0
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| | Third world development: Proper priorities 399
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/292399c0
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| | Polish economic reform: Self-governance wins 400
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/292400a0
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| | British Technology Group: Mixed marriage 400
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/292400b0
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| | Tidal energy: The big dam 401
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/292401a0
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| | US nuclear weapons: Lasers purify 401
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/292401b0
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| | Man versus tsetse 402
ADAM J. BECKER
doi:10.1038/292402a0
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| | Author — Anon 402
P.M. GAYLARDE
doi:10.1038/292402b0
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| | From the museum 402
R.S. MILES & G.C.S. CLARKE
doi:10.1038/292402c0
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| | Suiting everyone 402
A.H. BATTEN
doi:10.1038/292402d0
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| | Too tolerant 403
E.W. MACKIE
doi:10.1038/292403a0
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| | Halstead's defence against irrelevancy 403
L. BEVERLY HALSTEAD
doi:10.1038/292403b0
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| | How to classify the cladists 404
BRIAN LEITH
doi:10.1038/292404a0
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| | Thalassaemia: from theory to practice 405
Bob Williamson
doi:10.1038/292405a0
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| | Minor body mass determination 406
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/292406a0
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| | Leeuwenhoek's specimens discovered after 307 years 407
Brian J. Ford
doi:10.1038/292407a0
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| | Mixed-species foraging groups 408
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/292408a0
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| | The Chemistry of the Sun 409
doi:10.1038/292409a0
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| | Origin of the galaxies 409
Joseph silk
doi:10.1038/292409b0
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| | Bose−Fermi equivalence and soliton theory in solid-state physics 411
R. K. Bullough
doi:10.1038/292411a0
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| | Actions of cholera toxin and the prevention and treatment of cholera 413
Jan Holmgren
doi:10.1038/292413a0
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| | High noble metal concentrations in a late Pliocene sediment 417
Frank T. Kyte, Zhiming Zhou & John T. Wasson
doi:10.1038/292417a0
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| | Controls of RNA splicing and termination in the major late adenovirus transcription unit 420
Göran Akusjärvi & Håkan Persson
doi:10.1038/292420a0
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| | Diversity of germ-line immunoglobulin VH genes 426
David Givol, Rina Zakut, Kim Effron, Gideon Rechavi, Daniela Ram & Justus B. Cohen
doi:10.1038/292426a0
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 Rays from the cosmic ray irradiation of local molecular clouds 430
M. R. Issa & A. W. Wolfendale
doi:10.1038/292430a0
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| | Collisional amplification of density fluctuations in Saturn's rings 433
J. Lukkari
doi:10.1038/292433a0
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| | The ice layer in Uranus and Neptune—diamonds in the sky? 435
Marvin Ross
doi:10.1038/292435a0
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| | A refined estimate of the fine structure constant 436
John Ellis & D. V. Nanopoulos
doi:10.1038/292436a0
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| | Dynamical symmetry in the quadratic Zeeman effect 437
C. W. Clark & K. T. Taylor
doi:10.1038/292437a0
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| | Failure of Arrhenius equation for hydroxyl radical−bicarbonate ion reaction above 100 °C 439
David Ritchie McCracken & George V. Buxton
doi:10.1038/292439a0
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| | Radio-echo layering in polar ice sheets and past volcanic activity 441
D. H. M. Millar
doi:10.1038/292441a0
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| | Intermediate depth seismicity in the western Mediterranean unrelated to subduction of oceanic lithosphere 443
D. Hatzfeld & M. Frogneux
doi:10.1038/292443a0
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| | Palaeomagnetism of the Ibero-Armorican arc and the Hercynian orogeny in Western Europe 445
H. Perroud & N. Bonhommet
doi:10.1038/292445a0
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| | Dietary carbon sources of mussels and tubeworms from Galápagos hydrothermal vents determined from tissue 14C activity 448
P. M. Williams, K. L. Smith, E. M. Druffel & T. W. Linick
doi:10.1038/292448a0
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| | A natural biological control of Dutch elm disease 449
Joan Webber
doi:10.1038/292449a0
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| | Regenerative and passive membrane properties of isolated horizontal cells from a teleost retina 451
Daniel Johnston & Dominic Man-Kit Lam
doi:10.1038/292451a0
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| | Inhibition of basophil histamine release by anti-inflammatory steroids 454
Robert P. Schleimer, Lawrence M. Liechtenstein & Elizabeth Gillespie
doi:10.1038/292454a0
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| | Lipoxygenase products modulate histamine release in human basophils 455
Stephen P. Peters, Marvin I. Siegel, Anne Kagey-Sobotka & Lawrence M. Lichtenstein
doi:10.1038/292455a0
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| | Type-specific protective immunity evoked by synthetic peptide of Streptococcus pyogenes M protein 457
Edwin H. Beachey, Jerome M. Seyer, James B. Dale, W. Andrew Simpson & Andrew H. Kang
doi:10.1038/292457a0
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| | Binding of MLR precursors requires immunosorbents which present both self- and alloantigen 459
Heather Y. Schnagl & William Boyle
doi:10.1038/292459a0
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| | Adrenaline activation of phosphofructokinase in rat heart mediated by  -receptor mechanism independent of cyclic AMP 461
M. G. Clark & G. S. Patten
doi:10.1038/292461a0
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| | Evidence that LY-141865 specifically stimulates the D-2 dopamine receptor 463
K. Tsuruta, E. A. Frey, C. W. Grewe, T. E. Cote, R. L. Eskay & J. W. Kebabian
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| | Trypanocidal activity of daunorubicin and related compounds 466
J. Williamson, T. J. Scott-Finnigan, M. A. Hardman & J. R. Brown
doi:10.1038/292466a0
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| | Interactions of daunomycin and melanotropin−daunomycin with DNA 467
Gary Wiesehahn, Janos M. Varga & John E. Hearst
doi:10.1038/292467a0
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| | Enteropancreatic circulation of digestive enzymes does not exist in the rat 470
Gerhard Rohr, Horst Kern & George Scheele
doi:10.1038/292470a0
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| | Vasoconstriction with thromboxane A2 induces ulceration of the gastric mucosa 472
B. J. R. Whittle, G. L. Kauffman & S. Moncada
doi:10.1038/292472a0
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| | Mobility of polypeptide chain in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex revealed by proton NMR 474
Richard N. Perham, Harry W. Duckworth & Gordon C. K. Roberts
doi:10.1038/292474a0
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| | Delayed recruitment of maternal histone H3 mRNA in sea urchin embryos 477
Dan E. Wells, Richard M. Showman, William H. Klein & Rudolf A. Raff
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| | In pursuit of a self-conscious science 479
J. O'Keefe & P.D. Wall reviews The Human Psyche.The Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh 1978−1979
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John C. Eccles
doi:10.1038/292479a0
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| | A tool of elegance and great power for physicists... 480
Peter McClintock reviews Green's Functions and Condensed Matter
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G. Rickayzen and Many-Particle Physics
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G. D. Mahan
doi:10.1038/292480a0
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| | ...and another for molecular biologists 480
Ueli Schibler reviews Genetic Engineering 1.
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Robert Williamson
doi:10.1038/292480b0
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| | Isolation and assay of insect hormones 481
H. F. Nijhout reviews Neurohormonal Techniques in Insects.
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Thomas A. Miller
doi:10.1038/292481a0
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| | Creative catalysis 481
G.W. Parshall reviews Homogeneous Transition-metal Catalysis: A Gentle Art
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Christopher Masters
doi:10.1038/292481b0
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| | Illumination on the light reactions 482
J. Barber reviews Photosynthesis: Physical Mechanisms and Chemical Patterns
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Roderick K. Clayton
doi:10.1038/292482a0
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| | Medical malacology 482
Frank J. Etges reviews Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance
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David S. Brown
doi:10.1038/292482b0
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