January 31, 2001 To: Louise Lamphere (President of the AAA), Don Brenneis (President elect of the AAA), Carole Crumley (Secretary of the AAA), the members of...
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Andy Lock
A.J.Lock@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:20 am
There is a lot of data in an old paper by C.D.Darlington - (1960) 'Cousin marriage and the evolution of the breeding system in man.' Heredity 14: 297-332 -...
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Rob Quinlan
rquinlan@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
I apologize for cluttering the list with this remedial stuff, but I'm still a bit confused. Maybe someone can help me. 1. When someone uses the term...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
From New Scientist magazine, 03 February 2001 All tied up Lee Smolin says that quantum and classical physics will get together by 2010. Robert Matthews admires...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
SALON.COM Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Theresa Pinto Sherer Jan. 31,...
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Alex RB
stenomicra@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
The mathematics of it does not look good. In situationss of extreme inbreeding not only the deleterious allele, but the whole population will disappear (once...
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Howard Eisman
howeis7@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
Frederic Weizmann writes: In terms of Freudian ideas that seem "to have held up empirically one might mention the clustering of the kinds of traits that make...
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Kevin Korb
korb@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:27 am
Hi Warren, ... Yes, Vapnik's work is an interesting extension to frequentist statistics, and in many cases does almost as well as MML on small samples. It's...
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William Banks
WPB04747@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:45 am
Below is the table of contents for the December, 2000, issue of consciousness and Cognition. Note that this issue has, in addition to an article on the...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:45 am
EXN.CA Human race = rat race? By: EXN Staff, January 31, 2001 In today's Science News: Closer to rats than we think What makes us human New wolf at the door? ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:49 am
FOR RELEASE: 1 FEBRUARY 2001 AT 00:01 ET US Lehigh University http://www.lehigh.edu/ Lehigh researchers examine link between abusive child-rearing, overly ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:49 am
FOR RELEASE: 31 JANUARY 2001 AT 18:00 ET US Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care http://www.baycrest.org/ Study pinpoints region in frontal lobes as 'essence' of...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:51 am
FOR RELEASE: 1 FEBRUARY 2001 AT 00:15 ET US Center for the Advancement of Health http://www.cfah.org/ Personality's role in high blood pressure may not be so...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:59 am
NATURE SCIENCE UPDATE Thursday 1 February 2001 brain: Find that tune JOHN WHITFIELD Nowhere to hide: this man's brain will seek out your errors. You are a...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:09 am
THE GUARDIAN Tangled twigs on the tree of life There is less difference than you think between man and mouse. Henry Gee unweaves the contentious branches of...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:09 am
THE GUARDIAN A gleam in the eye The tetrachromat sees a vivid world unavailable to most of us, writes David Hambling David Hambling Guardian Thursday February...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:12 am
THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 01 2001 Gene mapping unravels tale of mice and men BY MARK HENDERSON ALL placental mammals belong to one of four “great...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:25 am
Radicalism and evolutionary doctrines - a view from 1933 _______ "The variables which are heavily loaded with radicalism are attitudes favorable to...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:55 am
Cognition Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2001 Tilo T.J. Kircher et al. Recognizing one's own face (PDF 237.7 Kb) B1-B15 [Abstract] ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 12:51 pm
Table of Contents for Cognition Volume 79, Issue 1-2, April 2001 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness Dehaene S.I. Edited by Stanislas Dehaene Stanislas...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2001 12:52 pm
Table of Contents for Cognition Volume 78, Issue 3, March 2001 Gavin Huntley-Fenner Children's understanding of number is similar to adults' and rats':...
... KS> And the writings of William of Ockham have to be seen in the context of KS> medieval theology (he was a Franciscan schoolman). Whereas Darwinism KS>...
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Paul Deards
Paul.Deards@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:09 pm
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Bruce Ellis
b.ellis@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:09 pm
There is a consistent finding in the literature showing that girls from father-absent homes are at substanially higher risk of teenage pregnancy. I have found...
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Warren Sarle
saswss@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:10 pm
From: David Wolpert <dhw@...> ... It is true that some misguided COLT people claim that agnostic learning (i.e., learning without any prior...
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Warren Sarle
saswss@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:11 pm
From: Kevin Korb <korb@...> ... Adding free parameters to a model typically increases the VC dimension, which increases the upper bound on...
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David Smith
dsmith06@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:15 pm
Small point of clarification: Freud never used the concept of the oral personality. Prof. David Livingstone Smith Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences 11...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:59 am
... shorthand for genetic precursors of deleterious traits - as in when we say "genes for" .... some trait or another - sorry about the confusion ... I believe...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:59 am
BBC NEWS ONLINE Thursday, 1 February, 2001, 13:44 GMT Brain region for understanding minds Researchers in Canada say that our ability to understand the...