The New Curriculum

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Margaret Jane Wyszomirski and Pat Clubb, eds. The Cost of Culture: Patterns and Prospects of Private Arts Patronage. New York: ACA Books, American Council for the Arts, 1989. 97 pages. $9.95 paperback.

Neil Postman. Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Education. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 190 pages. $17.95 hardback.

The Challenge of Change: Papers and Presentations from the 15th Annual National Conference, ed. Keens Company. New York: FEDAPT, 1987. 144 pages. $14.95 paperback.     

Culture and Class in Papua New Guinea

Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary. David Lipset. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 335 pp.
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference. Deborah B. Gewertz and Frederick K. Errington. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 179 pp.     

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football

Entering the Field: New Perspectives on World Football. Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.320 pp.     

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. Jon Michael Spencer. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 169 pp.     

The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader

The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Carola Suarez-Orozco, and Desiree Baolian Quin, eds. New York: Routledge, 2005. 366 pp.     

Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 230 pp.     

Heteroblasty on Chatham Island: A comparison with New Zealand and New Caledonia

We used a comparative approach to investigate heteroblasty in the Chatham Islands. Heteroblasty refers to abrupt changes in the morphology of leaves and shoots with plant height. Common on isolated islands such as New Caledonia and New Zealand, which once had flightless, browsing birds, heteroblasty is hypothesised to be an adaptation to deter bird browsing. The Chatham Islands are a small archipelago located 800 km off the east coast of New Zealand, which has clear floristic links to New Zealand. However, unlike New Caledonia and New Zealand, the Chathams never had flightless, browsing birds. We investigated heteroblasty on the Chatham Islands by: (1) comparing height-related changes in leaf morphology and branching architecture in several plant taxa with heteroblastic relatives on the New Zealand mainland; (2) characterising changes in leaf morphology in heteroblastic tree species endemic to the Chathams; and (3) comparing overall trends in leaf heteroblasty on the Chathams with New Caledonia and New Zealand. Reversions to homoblasty were observed in the three Chatham Island taxa with heteroblastic relatives on the New Zealand mainland. However, two endemic tree species were clearly heteroblastic; both produced dramatically larger leaves as juveniles than as adults. Inter-archipelago comparisons showed that this trend in leaf morphology is rare among heteroblastic species in New Caledonia and New Zealand. Therefore, while some of our results were consistent with the hypothesis that heteroblasty is an adaptation to avoid bird browsing, other processes also appear to have shaped the expression of heteroblasty on Chatham Island.     

Combined Review: Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier and Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Kaja Finkler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 296 pp.
Born and Bred: Idioms and New Reproductive Technologies in England. Jeanette Edwards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 264 pp.     

The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective

The Archaeology of Communities:. New World Perspective. Marcello A. Canuto and Jason Yaeger. eds. New York: Routledge, 2000.271 pp.     

New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mycetophagidae, Tetratomidae, and Melandryidae

We report 21 new species records for the Coleoptera fauna of New Brunswick, Canada, seven of which are new records for the Maritime provinces. Four species of Mycetophagidae (Litargus didesmus Say, Litargus tetrapilotus LeConte, Mycetophagus punctatus Say, and Mycetophagus quadriguttatus Müller) are newly reported for the province of New Brunswick. Litargus didesmus is newly recorded for the Maritime provinces. Seven species of Tetratomidae are added to the faunal list of New Brunswick: Eustrophus tomentosus Say, Penthe obliquata (Fabricius), and Tetratoma tessellata Melsheimer are new to New Brunswick: Hallomenus serricornis LeConte, Pisenus humeralis Kirby, Synstrophus repandus (Horn), and Tetratoma variegata Casey, which are newly recorded for New Brunswick and the Maritime provinces. Ten additional species of Melandryidae are reported from New Brunswick, of which Orchesia cultriformis Laliberté, Orchesia ovata Laliberté, Phloeotrya fusca (LeConte), Scotochroides antennatus Mank, Spilotus quadripustulatus (Melsheimer), Symphora flavicollis (Haldeman), Symphora rugosa (Haldeman), and Zilora hispida LeConte are new for the province, and Microscapha clavicornis LeConte and Zilora nuda Provancher are newly recorded for the Maritime provinces. In addition, we report numerous additional records for three species of Mycetophagidae and one species of Melandryidae previously recorded from New Brunswick that suggest these species are more widely distributed than previously known. Collection, habitat data, and distribution maps are presented for all these species.     

L'école et le territoire: nouveaux espaces, nouveaux enjeux [School and Territory: New Spaces, New Issues].

L'école et le territoire: nouveaux espaces, nouveaux enjeux [School and Territory: New Spaces, New Issues]. Bernard Charlot, ed. Paris: Armand Colin, 1994. 223 pp.     

Infrequent and unidirectional colonization of hyperdiverse Papuadytes diving beetles in New Caledonia and New Guinea

We present a molecular phylogenetic analysis of 2808 aligned bp of rrnL, cox1, cob, H3 and 18S rRNA of all major morphological groups of Papuadytes diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) which are diverse in running water habitats throughout the Australian region. We focus on the origin of the fauna of the megadiverse islands of New Guinea and New Caledonia. Parsimony as well as Bayesian analyses suggest a basal position of Australian species in a paraphyletic series, with more recent nested radiations in New Caledonia and New Guinea. According to molecular clock analyses, both landmasses were colonized during the Miocene, which matches geological data and corroborates similar findings in other taxonomic groups. Our analyses suggest that dispersal played an important role in the formation of these large insular faunas, although successful colonization appears to be a rare event, and, in this case, is unidirectional. Whether or not a lineage is present on an island is due to chance: Papuadytes are absent from Fiji, where related Copelatus have radiated extensively in the same habitats occupied by Papuadytes in New Caledonia and New Guinea, while Copelatus are absent from New Caledonia. Lineages of Papuadytes apparently colonized New Caledonia twice, around 14 and 9 MYA according to the molecular calibration, and both lineages are derived from an Australian ancestor. The older clade is represented only by two apparently relictual mountain species (one morphologically strongly adapted to highly ephemeral habitats), while the younger clade contains at least 18 species exhibiting a great morphological diversity. The 150+ species in New Guinea are monophyletic, apparently derived from an Australian ancestor, and constitute a morphologically rather homogenous group. The tree backbone remains insufficiently supported under parsimony and Bayesian analyses, where shorter branches suggest a rapid sequence of major branching events.     

New thinking, innateness and inherited representation

The New Thinking contained in this volume rejects an Evolutionary Psychology that is committed to innate domain-specific psychological mechanisms: gene-based adaptations that are unlearnt, developmentally fixed and culturally universal. But the New Thinking does not simply deny the importance of innate psychological traits. The problem runs deeper: the concept of innateness is not suited to distinguishing between the New Thinking and Evolutionary Psychology. That points to a more serious problem with the concept of innateness as it is applied to human psychological phenotypes. This paper argues that the features of recent human evolution highlighted by the New Thinking imply that the concept of inherited representation, set out here, is a better tool for theorizing about human cognitive evolution.     

Recent Theory in Highland New Guinea

Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 216 pp.
Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000. 216 pp.
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. with contributions by Ien Courtens and Dianne van Oosterhout. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 156 pp.     

New species of Halacaridae (Acari) from New Zealand

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Seven new taxa of marine mites (Halacaridae) are described from the marine littoral zone of northern and southern New Zealand: Agauopsis novaezelandiae, A. luxtoni, Halacarellus lubricus, Copidognathus lubricus, Simognathus glaber, S. glareus, and Rhombognathus novaezelandicus. A list of halacarid species known from New Zealand waters is added.     

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City.

Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 374 pp.     

Trees and shrubs of New Zealand

Poole. A. L. & Adams, N. M. 1994. Trees and shrubs of New Zealand. - Manaaki Whenua Press. Lincoln, New Zealand. ISBN 0–478–04535–2. 256 pages. Price: 30 USD     

Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany

Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany. Hans C. Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 354 pp.     

West nile virus antibodies in bats from New Jersey and New York

Eighty-three serum samples were obtained from big brown (Eptesicus fuscus), little brown (Myotis lucifugus), and northern long-eared (Myotis septentriotalis) bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), from New Jersey and New York (USA) between July and October 2002. Samples were analyzed for neutralizing antibodies to West Nile virus (WNV) and St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus. One little brown bat and one northern long-eared bat tested positive for WNV neutralizing antibodies. No bats had antibodies to SLE virus. This was the first large-scale investigation of WNV infection in bats in New Jersey. Additional work is needed to determine the effects of WNV on bat populations.     

The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium. Joseph L. Graves. Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 272 pp.