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The article presents a literature review that discusses the importance of American Indian linguistics. It also presents a summary of the state of description and comparative work for each linguistics family. It presents a classification of American Indian linguistics as well as the role of various language families and the interrelationships among postulated families. Though space limitations have dictated a narrowly linguistic concern in this literature and the ethnographic semantics are omitted, possible wider relationships of the families and classifications were still discussed.

This article is a critique of the meaning and importance of some of the recently published work in the field whose development as a special area began with papers by Zuckerkandl & Pauling and Pauling & Zuckerkandl entitled Chemical Paleogenetics, Molecular Restoration Studies of Extinct Forms of Life and the paper by Margoliash on the evolution of cytochrome c. The primary emphasis is on conclusions and inferences derivable from amino acid sequences, followed bya section on nucleotide sequences. These are preceded by a brief indication of some of the literature that antedates the origin of the genetic code as it now stands. This will not treat immunoglobulin evolution, reviewed by Gally & Edelma and Smith, Hood & Fitch or related material on the evolution of enzymes and proteins reviewed by Smith and Arnheim. The functional interpretation of these changes has made significant progress [Dickerson and Takano et al]. For the evolution of metabolic pathways, see brew, Vogel, and Lejohn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the idea of social networks, which have been becoming increasingly popular among both social anthropologists and sociologists as one way of understanding behavior, particularly in larger scale complex or less structured societies. It reviews several literature related to the topic including those that were regarded as the most effective treatment for the subject. Furthermore, it concentrates on the developments that have taken place after the discoveries made by these related literature. It discusses a range of topics that include the question of the network theory, structural and transactional perspectives, network concepts, data collection, and finally, it presents an analysis of the social networks.

The article profiles scientist Alfred Henry Sturtevant. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of Sturtevant's scientific contributions to the development of present-day genetic concepts. On looking back on his papers, a biologist is often liable to feel that he could have done the work very much better 20 years later. Because this is not so for Sturtevant's most important papers, they are classics, which any student of genetics may read with profit, and are rightly reprinted. And students may be told tven if you don't discover anything as important as Sturtevant did, at least try to express yourself as clearly.

The article examines various literature and publications that relate to the study of selection and classification problems in relation to other aspects of the entire personnel system. It mentions several papers concerning personnel selection and classification in association with assignment, placement, manpower utilization, training, and man-machine systems. It also cites several studies on the interrelationships between personnel selection and other personnel subsystems.

Presents information on research papers on the problem of developing a conceptual framework for mental abilities. Superiority of one paper on grounds of sensible organization and suggestion of critical studies; Factors leading to increased attention and creative abilities; Discussion of factors dominant in Object-grouping test.

The article highlights the increasing interest of psychologists in problem solving and other closely related areas such as: concept formation, decision making, and creative thinking. About 125 relevant doctoral dissertations were completed in the United States between 1949 and 1953, and about 35 appeared within the most recent year. Of about 60 research papers on this subject presented at meetings of the American Psychological Association during the same period, 20 were given in 1953. Last April a conference on Human Problem Solving, sponsored by the National Science Foundation with New York University as host, was attended by more than 40 psychologists.

The article explores the validity of the array of strategies and contributing variables useful in demographic studies for anthropology. This literature review discusses the reasons for the increased interest in the development of anthropology, the relation between demography and cultural anthropology, the developments in descriptive demography, the effects of demography on living human populations, and the details of reconstruction of prehistoric and ethnohistoric populations. The authors to this review conclude that the descriptive demographic studies are still worthwhile, and that if the broad array of contributing factors is understood and controlled for, studies of the relationship between particular independent factors and demographic variables can be profitably explored.

The article presents a review of studies in the physical anthropology of the modern man which concerns papers that have appeared in the period from mid-1969 to mid-1971. This literature review aims to show how much activity there is in each major topic of investigation in the biological study of populations of man that exists, and to pick out any trend in investigation that may be detectable. To limit the range of the study, several topics including behavior studies, psychometric investigations, descriptive osteometry, and epidemiological works relating to particular disease states have been excluded.