Discussion of any aspect of evolutionary theory relevant to human behaviour and evolution, with a particular emphasis on new research findings. Group Manager:...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 12, 1999 8:17 pm
FEED's Steven Johnson interviews the author of How The Mind Works. Is the human mind simply an over-achieving blank slate whose skills and inclinations develop...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 12, 1999 8:29 pm
The Telegraph - Connected2 Bluster and battle: it's in the genes Do the recent Nato bombing raids serve to show how primitive we really are, asks Raj Persaud ...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 12, 1999 8:29 pm
The Telegraph - Connected2 The power of sex Insects fossilised in the act of union prove that even billions of years ago it took two to tango - and the results...
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David G. McDivitt
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Jun 13, 1999 8:56 am
I see language as a blending of evolution on several fronts, both social and individual. If a child does not begin language by a certain age, a specific window...
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Jun 13, 1999 8:27 pm
Dear fellow list members--for research I'm doing on animism (here defined not as E B Tylor's "belief in spirit beings" or its derivatives, but as Piaget's--and...
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Ken Jacobs
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Jun 14, 1999 7:18 am
Given that there appears to be no lobe or region of the brain that is either wholly responsible for language [to the exclusion of other lobes or regions] or...
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David G. McDivitt
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Jun 14, 1999 7:18 am
The one lobe on the left side of the brain, I forgot the name of it, is often said to have evolved exclusively for the purpose of language. It has no...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 14, 1999 12:49 pm
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v45/i40/40a05201.htm The Chronicle of Higher Education From the issue dated June 11, 1999 The Potential Cost of the Best Genes...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 14, 1999 8:54 pm
Embryo Work Raises Specter of Human Harvesting By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 14, 1999; Page A1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ A team...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 15, 1999 12:38 pm
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 14 June 1999 at 16:00:00 ET US http://medinfo.wustl.edu/ Washington University School of Medicine High stress hormone levels impair...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 15, 1999 7:05 pm
FEED Magazine Victorian Secret Will traditional gender differences serve us well in the 21st Century? Emily Jenkins profiles anthropologists Helen Fisher,...
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN [EXCERPT] Pinker and the Brain Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his...
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gwa@...
Jun 16, 1999 7:45 am
June 11, 1999 NYTimes Article "Israelis Shocked by Teen Killings" compelled this posting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Below is a letter of mine,...
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Ken Jacobs
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Jun 16, 1999 6:11 pm
There is poetic justice and irony here. The "beautifully remodeled Victorian house" in which Steve Pinker resides was, until 2 years ago, the residence of...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 16, 1999 7:03 pm
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 16 JUNE 1999 AT 14:00:00 ET US Emory University Health Sciences Center http://www.emory.edu/ Yerkes researchers find primate face...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 16, 1999 7:03 pm
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 16 JUNE 1999 AT 14:00:00 ET US University of Rochester http://www.rochester.edu/ For DNA, it's all about fitting In Thousands of times...
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Ken Jacobs
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Jun 18, 1999 12:24 am
With a mixture of incredulity and levity, the following might be of interest to some. One should never judge from press reports, but that lab rats are ticklish...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 18, 1999 2:12 pm
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 16 JUNE 1999 AT 12:00:00 ET US University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas http://www.swmed.edu/ UT Southwestern...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 18, 1999 9:05 pm
Too sexy for your shirt MARIE-THERESE HEEMELS http://helix.nature.com/nsu/990617/990617-8.html Rightly or wrongly, looks do matter in our choice of partner. We...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 18, 1999 9:05 pm
The pain is in your head By MAGGIE FOX WASHINGTON (June 17, 1999 3:19 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - It is a common reaction -- hear the dentist's drill...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 8:07 am
Scientists identify chimpanzee 'culture' By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA (June 16, 1999 4:03 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Some chimpanzees greedily slurp ants...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 10:02 am
NEW SCIENTIST Lies that bind The US gets away with a lot in the name of national security. And that includes bad science, says Stephen Budiansky EARLY THIS...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 10:02 am
Memories Are Made of This Did That Happen to Me, or to Little Red Riding Hood? Reading an emotional story about a child could make you think, at least ...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 10:03 am
NEW YORK POST IGNORANT, BUT FULL OF SELF-ESTEEM By MARK GOLDBLATT ... After years of psychotherapy disguised as pedagogy, ignorance is now buoyed by ...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 3:06 pm
The Rutgers research group on evolution and higher cognition has set up a web archive of their recent papers on mindreading, pretense rationality, and mental...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 19, 1999 4:55 pm
From the current issue of Archives of Genral Psychiatry Letters to the Editor - June 1999 Candidate Genes and Behavioral Traits-Candidly! There are countless...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 20, 1999 5:52 am
Of Flies and Men Review by Dean Hamer Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior BY JOHNATHAN WEINER Alfred A. Knopf, New...
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Ian Pitchford
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Jun 20, 1999 5:52 am
The Search for Animal Inventors How innovative are other species? By Susan Milius [EXCERPT] The Blue Delta guppy may look like just another pretty tail, but...
