Rau et al., present provocative findings regarding the association between national income inequality and democratic erosion (1). The finding that only three variables predict democratic erosion is ...

Contributed by Richard P. Lifton; received October 3, 2024; accepted January 14, 2025; reviewed by David Altshuler and Sekar Kathiresan ...

Contributed by John P. Perdew; received September 12, 2024; accepted January 23, 2025; reviewed by Filipp Furche, Robert O. Jones, and Hannes Jonsson ...

The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras was found to contain preserved avocado remains as old as 11,000 years. Avocados (Persea americana Mill.) are an increasingly important cash crop, but ...

Edited by Danielle Basset, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; received May 2, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025, by Editorial Board Member Elizabeth A. Buffalo ...

Contributed by Joseph S. Francisco; received November 5, 2024; accepted January 21, 2025; reviewed by Xifan Wu and Sotiris S. Xantheas ...

Edited by Jiayang Li, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; received June 4, 2024; accepted January 24, 2025 ...

The complex pattern of associations between plants and herbivorous insects in modern terrestrial ecosystems is hypothesized to be established during the initial diversification of flowering ...

More importantly, Saulsbury et al. suggest that NT can be validated by curve-fitting, despite NT’s legacy showing the opposite. The original evidence for NT, left-skewed distributions of species ...

Johnson (1) argues that our paper does not falsify Red Queen (RQ) and that fitting Hubbell’s neutral theory (NT) to fossil data does not “validate” NT. Our paper (2) makes similar points. We do not ...

Contributed by Naoto Nagaosa; received November 20, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025; reviewed by Ashley M. Cook and Qiong Ma ...

Edited by Joseph Kieber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; received November 27, 2024; accepted January 7, 2025 ...