By Caitlin O'Connell
The struggles and celebrations of nature’s greatest land creatures—with greater than 250 mind-blowing full-color images through Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell
An Elephant’s Life offers a special and engaging immersion into the realm of the African elephant, advised through a number one box biologist who has been gaining knowledge of and photographing those animals of their ordinary habitat for almost twenty years. right here, for the 1st time, readers get a fuller photo of elephant society solid in a broader context, together with the lifetime of the male elephant in all its excessive drama.
Merging the visible traditions of photojournalism and the character documentary with the narrative voice of such classics as Jane Goodall’s Chimpanzees of Gombe, this large-format, full-color quantity of photograph essays presents a uniquely wealthy knowing of what it’s prefer to develop up and dwell in the complexities of elephant society at each flip of the web page. Readers will event the frustrations and ache of the coming-of-age male suffering to go away his relatives, witness the consistent vigilance a matriarch exerts to guard her family members, and suppose the drama of a dominant male attempting to carry onto strength in periods of peace and occasions of social upheaval. Like Wolf Empire (Lyons Press, 2007), An Elephant’s Life is an intimate portrait of a liked and engaging species.
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Concordance group Cl + C2 must be considered for a direct comparison with previous twin studies in schizophrenic research. The rates are 50% for monozygotic pairs and 20% for dizygotic pairs (age-adjusted: 55% and 23%). These values coincide with the average from the con- Concordance rates 53 cordance rates of all previous twin studies (monozygotic pairs 54%, dizygotic pairs 10%, without age adjustment).
Table 13 shows that there were slight age differences in the age at the onset between men and women within individual diagnostic Table 12. 3%) Demographic data of the subjects 47 Table 13. 2 SD) Other diagnoses of the schizophrenic spectrum (DSM-lII-RIICD 10) subgroups (cycloid psychoses and other spectrum psychoses apart from schizophrenia according to DSM-III-R1ICD 10). Social situation (school, occupation, marital status) Tables A6 and A7 in the Appendix show the social situation of the subjects at the time of the first hospitalization and at the time of the follow-up study.
1965). The authors reported in 1966 that in 11 discordant pairs the schizophrenic twin was the lighter twin at birth in 11 cases (between 15 g and 793 g) and was the second born in eight cases (pollin et al. 1966). Stabenau and Pollin (1967) found in earlier twin studies of discordant pairs that the ill partner was often smaller, weaker and lighter at birth and was often affected by asphyxia or other birth complications. In 1971 Mosher et at. reported that in 15 discordant pairs, the ill index-twin showed neurological irregularities significantly more often, had more difficulties during birth, and was the lighter twin in 12 cases.