Atavism
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Recent papers in Atavism
This paper examines the ways in which Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll is treated in the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in relation to Cesare Lombroso's research on atavism and criminality.
This essay explores Jack London's story "The Scarlet Plague" and its literary expression of contemporary theories of atavism and his turn-of-the-century take on prehistoric fiction.
The present study aims to illustrate the circuit of symbolic correspondences between the early poetry of the Romanian Lucian Blaga (in particular «Linişte», «Biografie», and «Somn») and the late poetry of the Italian Arturo Onofri (in... more
History and description of visual and auditory anomalies associated with albinism.
The ontogeny of the caudal skeleton in the Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus was examined using an extensive series of cleared and stained specimens. We demonstrate the presence of skeletal components never reported previously within the... more
A key challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how new morphologies can arise through changes in gene regulatory networks. For example, floral asymmetry is thought to have evolved many times independently from a radially... more