John Hill Hewitt

John Hill Hewitt was a first generation Native American. His paternal ancestors were of Welsh extraction while his mother \u27s family ancestry was largely English with some royal Portuguese blood. Hewitt noted that his mother\u27s large Roman nose and curly hair were dominant features among her children} Such features lent him a negro appearance which became a painful stigma for him in the American South during the Nineteenth Century.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1100/thumbnail.jp

Genital Evolution: Cock-a-Doodle-Don’t

SummaryLosing the penis in species with internal fertilization may seem paradoxical, but birds have managed to do it multiple times. A new study addresses one developmental mechanism responsible for penis reduction in birds, and opens the door to further examination of this little understood evolutionary phenomenon

Urban Bus Transport Regulation in Buenos Aires

Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University of Sydne

Anticipating the Future of Biomedical Communications

The National Library of Medicine is poised to launch its third century of providing library services to serve science and society. The nature of scientific communications is changing, with rapid growth in archival literature, new artifacts of communication artifacts such as preprints, pipelines and data sets, and a scholarly and social public greater attuned to video and sound productions than to the printed word. The NLM Director will describe the exciting steps the NLM is taking to prepare for this future, and identify critical challenges that can only be solved through partnerships between the NLM and the publishing community