... It is the same theory, different name. ... I am not so sure. I think it can explain all these things. We do a lot of art for the same reason we do a lot of...
The Rich Are Different Excerpt From The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide Oct. 8 - Journalist Richard Conniff probes the age-old question, "Are the...
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The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society by Joseph S. Alper (Editor), Catherine Ard (Editor), Adrienne Asch (Editor), Peter...
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One of the things which is universal among human societies is the telling of stories. Does anyone have references and/or thoughts from an evoluationary...
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Pierre Tremblay
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Dec 1, 2002 6:40 pm
Greetings Manu! ... Herbert: "For general intelligence, there are several alternatives, including the tool-making theory, the Machiavellian theory, the ...
... Google Michael Shermer, who has written quite a bit about this; e.g., _Why people beieve weird things._ He draws on evolutionary and cognitive ideas,...
This all depends on what you mean by 'stories'. Merlin Donald has suggested that the narrative mode was the primary form of verbal communication. This view...
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:48:42 AM, David Wilmsen wrote: DW> I am more familiar with the genre of fishing magazines, where DW> such discussions do...
Plenty of references (a few listed below) - depends what angle you're coming at it from. In my doctoral research I am exploring the notion of story generation...
Stories could not have developed early. The orders of hierarchical complexity are described below. Stories are quite hierarchical complex so could not have...
Hi Mary, What about something simple like that: The history teller is incurring a cost whithout survival advantages; so can be an indicator of quality. The...
... You might also take a look at Mark Turneršs The Literary Mind. The final chapter is about the role of parable (that is, stories) in the origins of ...
Pierre Tremblay wrote: Do we not have a long history of believing whatever about ourselves and also inculcating these beliefs (lies? about ourselves) to our...
Very true. And prey species would be more active in the warmer parts of the day too. Nevertheless, I understand, also from reading fishing magazines, that...
... Well, a lot of spectacular engineering was done before (long before) Newton just as a lot of sophisticated international trading occurred before Adam ...
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Graeme Deeth
marshalldeeth@...
Dec 1, 2002 10:41 pm
Matt Watson wrote ... It is pleasing to see the subject of deception raised again. I wonder if the notion of runaway selection regards brain size and...
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George Parrish
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Dec 1, 2002 10:42 pm
I believe the first stories were attempts to describe the previous night's dreams. Creative embellishment must have begun almost immediately. George Parrish...
... I think this a misreading of the stance of evolutionary theory. And I have to say this with the proviso that I have not been reading too terribly...
From: Herbert Gintis [mailto:hgintis@...] I am not so sure. I think it can explain all these things. We do a lot of art for the same reason we do a lot...
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Joseph Carroll
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Dec 2, 2002 1:43 am
One of the things which is universal among human societies is the telling of stories. Does anyone have references and/or thoughts from an evoluationary...
APA MONITOR December 2002 Volume 33, No. 11 December 2002 The authors suggest that pets lower stress by providing nonjudgmental companionship. Friends indeed ...
APA MONITOR Volume 33, No. 11 December 2002 Different shades of perception A new study shows how learning--and possibly language--can influence color...
I have suggested that the violence of the Nazis may be understood by focusing on the psychic stance of SUBMISSION. Yet as Matthew Bradley notes, studies of the...
... Aren't you tying story-telling to closely to verbal language in this analysis? There is plenty or story-telling that goes on without sequences of sentences...
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Pierre Tremblay
pjtremblay@...
Dec 2, 2002 8:43 am
Greetings Richard! Male homosexuality played a significant role in the rise of Nazism, and this fact was generally ignored until recently. Have you read the...
In message <002101c29982$326c1ee0$9901a8c0@hp876>, Mark Weaver <weaver@...> writes ... What evidence does Pinker cite to support the claim that 'just...
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Pierre Tremblay
pjtremblay@...
Dec 2, 2002 8:44 am
Greetings David! You appear to be defining male homosexuality in "heterosexual" terms - as when I so often see when the word "mating" and "copulation" -...
