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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY FOUNDED IN 1926 BY RAYMOND PEARL GEORGE C WILLIAMS FRANK C ERK Editor Emeritus Editor Emeritus ALBERT D CARLSON JamMEs D THOMSON DANIEL E DYKHUIZEN Editor Editor Editor MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI GREGORY A WRAY} Editor Associate Editor Jo ANN H FitzGeRALD DIANAL MANCINI JULIE DIGIANANTONIO Managing Editor Manuscnpt Editor Editorial Assistant VOLUME 8&0 2005 Published by The University of Chicago Press for Stony Brook University Copyright © 2005 by The University of Chicago. 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POST MASTER: send address changes to The Quarterly Review of Biology, The University of Chicago Press, Jour nals Division, PO Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637 USA No 1, March 2005 \ Symposium in Honor of George C Williams George Williams Fund for Student Research Introduction List of Contributors for This Symposium Issue on George C Williams: Personal Reminiscences...... wees» Frank C Erk Red-Letter Days . catia tla ie acini edaadet eels ” . Steven P Ferraro \daptation: “A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought” . ; Helena Cronin How Do We Decide that a Species Is Sex-Role Reversed?.. George W Barlow The Evoiution of Parental Care ........ sales . Mart R Gross The Maintenanceo f Sex as a Developmenta [rap Due To Sexual Selection Mary Jane West-Eberhard Carpe Diem: Adaptation and Devaluing the Future Vartin Daly and Vargo Wilson Maladaptation and Natural Selection .......... aa Randolph M Nesse George Williams, Theoretician and Guerilla Environmentalist .... Bobbi S Lou New Biological Books Wolves Are Consummate Predators....... sia Vark S Boyce Reviews and Brief Notices Directory of Publishers Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed Index to Reviewers of Books No 2, June 2005 \ Dedication to Dr Bentley Glass. PRE Remembering Bentley Glass (1906-2005) ............. a . Frank C Evk Foreword .. paneasnen ocptene penne nestene onewn sone ...e. Lhe Editors Reprint of the Commentary: The Critical State of the Critical Review Article.. Bentley Glass 175-178 Reprint of the Commentary: Biclogical Aspects of Technology Assessment. pednee Bentley Glass 179-183 QRB by Bentley Glass, 1947-1994 ears “ales 184-185 List of Contributors to The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund............. 186 \ Hierarchical Perspective of Plant Diversity ......... Daniel A Sarr, David E Hibbs, and Michael A Huston New Biological Books [he New World Venomous Reptiles Get the Treatment They Deserve Larry David Wilson Laura Betzziigg Reviews and Brief Notices.... Directory of Publishers.. Index to Titles and Authors 277-281 Index to Reviewers of Books 282-283 No 3, September 2005 The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund 285 Announcement of Electronic Sample Issue 286 The Evolutionary Genetics of Canalization 287-316 The Evolutionary Origin and Elaboration of Sociality in the Aculeate Hymenoptera: Maternal Effects, Sib-Social Effects, and Heterochrony Timothy A Linksvayer and Michael ]W ade 317-336 New Biological Books Life and Death Experiences of the 337-340 Reviews and Brief Notices 341-384 Directory of Publishers 384-385 Index to Titles and Authors/ Editors of Books Reviewed 386-390 Index to Reviewers of Books . 391-392 No 4, December 2005 The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund 393 Announcement of Electronic Sample Issue 394 Che Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: A Synthetic Approach ... Matthew Gervais and David Sloan Wilson 395-430 Germ Banking: Bet-Hedging and Variable Release from Egg and Seed III icccoccnhadsecuninensaakeauenuannn Margaret E K Evans and John J]D ennehy 431-452 New Biological Books Social Preferences in Small-Scale Societies ......................20:: Alexander ] Fieid 453-459 Se IN ona os ssc ecmnan send phoeuntauebuneensnes Mahendra Kumar Jain 460-464 Reviews and Brief Notices 165-512 EEE EL DT EES ADE PLR ODA! OS EEE TERED ONG OER TP AS ADS ENTS ee EE : 501 Directory of Publishers 512-514 Indexes to Volume 80 (2005) litles and Authors of Articles 515-516 litles and Authors 517-534 Reviewers of Books 535-538