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Individuals with inactivating mutations of their androgen receptor (AR) (androgen insensitivity syndromes (AIS)) are phenotypically female in appearance and behavior and lack male sex accessory organs (prostate, seminal vesicles and Cowper's glands) despite the presence of testes, high levels of testosterone and a Y chromosome [ 1].
From the seminal population-genetic and phylogenetic studies of Dobzhansky and co-workers [ 1], and the classification of taxonomic relationships in the genus by Patterson, Stone and others [ 2], Drosophila has long served as a model system for developing and testing evolutionary principles at the morphological and cytological levels.
Now I don't doubt for a moment that if you put a group of bureaucrats around a conference table, the chances of them coming up with sensible rules for beach volleyball, much less the seminal concept, are zilch.
Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
Those seminal early papers were crisp and minimalist; they looked forward with remarkable prescience to the wild and woolly, out-of-control world of modern international macroeconomics.
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