A cute example that misses the point. Certainly the width and length can vary themselves and thus the area can vary if, as we know, IQs can vary. If length is...
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Fredric Weizmann
weizmann@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:21 am
Actually, your reading of what I said is why I included the second part of my message; you may not agree with my interpretation, but I did not miss the point....
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Stan Franklin
franklin@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:21 am
... And how is it that we know the other great apes ca n't deal with this kind of pattern? And if they can't, is this ability likely to require a threefold...
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Brian Whitworth
bwhitworth@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:21 am
Comments so far are most helpful. Some clarification of terms: By "brain size" was meant the within species increase in brain size that turned us from just...
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Roger D. Masters
Roger.D.Masters@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:22 am
Bill Calvin's post is VERY important. For some peculiar reason, discussions of selection for larger cranial capacity have ignored one obvious selection...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:22 am
FOR RELEASE: 1 DECEMBER 1999 AT 00:00 ET US University of North Carolina School of Medicine http://www.med.unc.edu/ Study points to chromosome site of autism...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:22 am
Mutation on Y Chromosome Stops Sperm Production http://www.hhmi.org/news/page3.htm After an arduous search, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:22 am
Tuesday November 30 5:04 PM ET Human Route Out of Africa Suggested By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA AP Science Writer Scientists examining hereditary material in cells...
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Frédéric Simons
f.simons@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:22 am
Hi, In decision making, you can get some info in these papers: Rode, C. , Cosmides, L., Hell, W., and Tooby, J. (1999) When and why do people avoid unknown...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:30 am
THE GUARDIAN Origins of the specious They're all Darwin's children, but for years leading scientists have been engaged in an unseemly squabble over just how...
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Dr. John R. Skoyles
skoyles@...
Dec 1, 1999 1:24 pm
The question is surely not whether brain size links to pattern recognition as to whether brain size links to the capacity to develop hyperdeveloped recognition...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:23 pm
Further to Andrew Brown's article in the Guardian ('Origins of the specious') I thought listmembers would like to know that his extremely enjoyable book 'The ...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:40 pm
Current Anthropology Volume 40, Number 5, December 1999 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/contents/v40n5.html RICHARD G. FOX Editorial v Full Text...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:40 pm
From the current issue of Intelligence Rodgers, J. L. (1999). A critique of the Flynn Effect: Massive IQ gains, methodological artifacts, or both?...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:50 pm
December 1, 1999 GENETICS MILESTONE: SCIENTISTS BLUEPRINT HUMAN CHROMOSOME from The Associated Press An international team of scientists has for the first time...
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H. M. Hubey
hubeyh@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:51 pm
... Both perimeter P= 2*X + 2*Y and area A=X*Y are symmetric functions of width and length. Since both addition and multiplication are commutative (the order...
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Valdusek@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:33 pm
I particularly enjoyed the "blurb" on the original back cover, which quoted Dan Dennett saying that if he were a friend of Brown, he'd be afraid to admit it....
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Liz Somerville
lizsom@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:33 pm
In somewhat belated response to Mike Waller's post of 10.11.99 re:Taxonomy of "consciousness" There is a great deal in the human neuropsychological literature...
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Sergio Navega
snavega@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:33 pm
From: Stan Franklin <franklin@...> ... Your questions are pertinent and I can't say much other than speculate. Unfortunately, I don't know of any...
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Liz Somerville
lizsom@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:33 pm
In belated response to the question posed by Chrisotpher Robinson: It is one of my deep regrets that hominids do not, by and large, expire clutching their...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:44 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1 DECEMBER 1999 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.uiuc.edu/ Brains of those in certain professions shown to have...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 1, 1999 7:55 pm
Nature Genetics Vol 23 No. 4 December 1999 Genetic evidence of an early exit of Homo sapiens sapiens from Africa through eastern Africa pp 437 - 441 L...
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Dan Dennett
ddennett@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:19 am
I wasn't going to get involved in this, but now that my "quotation" has been mentioned, I feel I must. Let's get the quote straight: I said (in private email,...
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jobling@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:20 am
Some people expressed interest in my last post, so I can now put out a real cfp for a panel about Nietzsche and evolutionary theory for the graduate student...
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D. Zimmerman
zimmerma@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:20 am
Surely the emotion that so readily surfaces in the genetics/environment debate reflects people’s political and social attitudes more than disagreement about...
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Ruediger Vaas
Ruediger.Vaas@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:20 am
German speaking readers might be interested in the cover story "(K)ein Platz fuer Gott?" [No/a place for God?] of the current issue of the monthly science...
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Dr. John R. Skoyles
skoyles@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:21 am
Keith Henson suggested in a previous post that William Calvin 'makes an impressive case' that 'the expansion of the brain was driven by the need for large...
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Michael Lamport Commons
commons@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:21 am
Again, pattern recognition is the basis of stage of development. At every next stage, the organism has to recognize a pattern of order in the previous stage...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:24 am
NATURE - 2nd December 1999 http://www.nature.com/ FEATURE OF THE WEEK Sequence of chromosome 22 The human genome project marks a major milestone this week with...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Dec 2, 1999 7:30 am
BBC NEWS Wednesday, 1 December, 1999, 20:26 GMT Long road to inheritance The science of modern genetics can be traced back to the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel...
