Braxton M. Alfred

Perspectives in primate biology and evolution

Taub, David M. and Frederick A. King, eds. Current Perspectives in Primate Biology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986, v + 315 pp. including tables, chapter references, and index.

Some Elementary Principles of Deductive Argument

44.50 cloth. Wood, Bernard, Lawrence Martin, and Peter Andrews, eds. Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vii + 354 pp. including illustrations, chapter references, subject index, and author index.

Topics in Hypothesis Testing

39.50 cloth.

Blood groups, phosphoglucomutase, and cerumen types of the Anaham (Chilcotin) Indians

The burden of communication in the arts is shared between artist and audience. This allows the artist, regardless of his effort, to be “misunderstood.” In science the burden is totally on the initiator, the scientist. Clarity of logic is, therefore, an essential ingredient. Formalism is a useful, and in most cases of interest, necessary, part of the process.

Blood groups, red cell enzymes, and cerumen types of the Ahousat (Nootka) Indians

Once more recall the conditional statement and the scientific argument which is being evaluated: