Jim, As I've said I have no doubt olfaction is important in these processes however anosmic newborns apparently have no problem suckling. Now instead of...
Artemis, I absolutely DID NOT make it up. That's what the guy told me and it was confirmed by another inmate though of course I wasn't at his trial. What you...
I think that theories and the metaphorical representations they inspire are of no value to understanding the adaptive evolution of the human brain and what...
Robert, This is correct. Newborns tend to instinctively suck on anything of the approximate form, but they have a feedback mechanism that locks on and bonds if...
Hilarious! A woman named Tater claims aliens don't want to eat us. Ever hear of Tater tots? I guarantee you taters are high up on any alien's menu and she'll...
Edgar, Â I am willing to discuss any scientific evidence you can cite that shows congenital anosmia in infant humans does not alter development of the brain...
I'm "not totally wrong"? Nils says exactly the same thing I said but phrased it differently. ... of the neighborhood is the "carving force," and not the gene...
Update your knowledge of balancing selection. Some innate human propensities are sensitive to the social environment, and a behavioral strategy appropriate to...
economic, social and educational differences have a greater role than genes in determining the behavioral phenotype. Greater ? but by how muchhow 51/49 ? 66/33...
Nils is absolutely correct. The physiological effects of endocrine disruptors like pesticides is a catastrophe...but is it "genetic"? Nils has indicated in...
I replied by private email to Joe that he missed my post #132889, in which I provided a brief summation of the evidence for the out of Africa theory. He...
ExquisiteCorps, Thank you. That is an excellent quote...but from which specific article did it come? I'd like to read the whole article rather than just an ...
... Jim, "Life before Jim Kohl doesn't seem to exist..."!! Do I detect a whiff of megalomania here? JK: Yes, it's the megalomania of logico-/psycho theory,...
... Robert, This is correct. Newborns tend to instinctively suck on anything of the approximate form, but they have a feedback mechanism that locks on and...
Jim, Yes, very obviously the planet Kohl lives on where people (and all organisms) tell each other apart by their odors is not the one everyone else lives on. ...
Jim, I believe there are some common beliefs we share, which I was attempting to elucidate so we might put them aside and get to the points of disagreement....
A Gene For Nothing | Genes & Health | DISCOVER Magazine by Robert Sapolsky. From the October 1997 issue; published online October 1 ... These stretches have...
Don, We're doing just that with drugs that have side effects. If you want to turn someone into a schizophrenic, give them Ldopa. My mother had Parkinson's...
Edgar, Â I think we, (all of us)Â are going to need to ignore your ignorance of biology. Olfaction is the same as "quorum sensing" in bacteria, which is why...
I know what you're saying, Artemis, and I'm saying that I disagree. If you dropped Friday into London, he would largely adopt, would become just another...
Whoa, Artemis, you've misunderstood me! I'll take the blame, but when I said the "people have not changed," I meant their genome has not changed. Their...
Artemis, You've seen the evidence or you could not make the comments you do, you could not have then said "the textbooks will have to be revised." Apparently,...
Robert, Ask Kohl to explain the milk let-down reflex. It is well studied, readily available and not that complicated (Wikipedia's entry is "milk ejection...
Sussa, I agree. Dawkins has too many other good things to do than try to convince me that I'm sort of traitor by refusing to loudly declare myself an atheist...
... Update your knowledge of balancing selection. Some innate human propensities are sensitive to the social environment, and a behavioral strategy appropriate...
