... I probably got the links below from this list so I apologise if this is repitition but the articles are certainly apposite to this discussion, taking the...
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Yehouda Harpaz
yehoudah
Sep 2, 2003 10:03 am
... I would recommend starting with a base-level textbook, rather than monographs, because the latter tend more to distort the data to fit their theories. Even...
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Andrew Brown
rackelhanen
Sep 2, 2003 10:03 am
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 8:12:02 AM, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair wrote: LEOK> adaptations LEOK> are not behaviour, adaptations are the brain...
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Jorge Simão
jsimao@...
Sep 2, 2003 9:19 am
Hi, again! I get your point. And I read it and *believed* about it several years ago when I read the Adapted mind. My general point is that EP uses past...
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Phil Roberts, Jr.
philrob@...
Sep 2, 2003 9:15 am
... I think you're forgetting about the venerable Hume, Herb. Some might even argue that, compared to Hume, the past seventy-five years of controlled and...
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Leif Edward Ottesen K...
leiedoke
Sep 2, 2003 9:13 am
Dear Jorge, May I suggest: Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1987). From Evolution to Behavior: Evolutionary Psychology as the Missing Link. In J. Dupré (Ed.), The...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Sep 2, 2003 9:13 am
Public release date: 1-Sep-2003 Contact: Richard Davidson rjdavids@... 608-262-8972 University of Wisconsin-Madison Study shows brain activity influences...
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Leif Edward Ottesen K...
leiedoke
Sep 2, 2003 9:13 am
Dear list, For those who are interested in the Intelligent design vs evolutionary psychology debate there is an article on this subject in the latest edition...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Sep 2, 2003 7:20 am
Searching the evolution of human sexuality The Intelligencer A book review in The New York Times caught my eye. The title of the book is "Sex, Time and Power:...
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Fredric Weizmann
fweizmann
Sep 2, 2003 6:30 am
Most researchers and scholars, even those well disposed to the idea that heritability measures are useful in some contexts have not championed their use when...
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Jeremy Bowman
bowmanthebard
Sep 2, 2003 6:30 am
... -- Agreed -- no theory has ever fitted all of the available data. In other words, there are always some observational results that a given theory cannot...
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Phil Roberts, Jr.
philrob@...
Sep 2, 2003 6:29 am
... 'Prosocial' is a term I've borrowed from you, and I am no doubt using it clumsily to refer to something a little too specific, such as the willfulness of...
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Timo Järvilehto
tjarvile
Sep 2, 2003 6:29 am
Dear Andrew Brown, just off-the list: if you are interested on an unorthodox view you could take a look at a recent article of mine ...
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Paul Okami
kozureokami2002
Sep 2, 2003 6:29 am
All research includes risk/benefit analysis. There would be no research of any kind without it. IRB forms include detailed description of possible risks, as...
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Herbert Gintis
hgintis
Sep 2, 2003 6:28 am
... This is a good point. However, there are several problems with the idea that altruism and empathy would be expressed prosocially without culture. The first...
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Jorge Simão
jsimao@...
Sep 2, 2003 6:27 am
Hi! The Short answer.... Neuronal surfaces get specialized contigent on inputs they get and global topological architecture. (For a nice review of the topic...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
robert_karl_...
Sep 1, 2003 3:20 pm
A Brave Theory? It has been suggested to me recently that aggression, bravery, and fortitude - fighting skills - are selected for. It is also suggested that...
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Stan Franklin
franklinstan
Sep 1, 2003 3:20 pm
Though my research group <http://csrg.cs.memphis.edu/CSRG/index.html> is one of a half-dozen or so around the world (that I know of) seriously attempting to...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:19 pm
... participants were glad to have participated, 15 percent were neutral, ... type of research should be carried out, and 74% said they had learned ... Don't...
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Carmi Turchick
tribalypredi...
Sep 1, 2003 3:19 pm
Lynn makes some very important points here <snip> We are wired for empathy, we don't need culture to control our anti- social tendencies, but quite the...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:18 pm
... I have met just two formally trained, MA level bio-ethicists. One was doing PR for a major drug co. and the other, as far as I could ascertain, was...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Sep 1, 2003 3:18 pm
... Don't you feel that you are being horribly elitist to assume that the "irrational highly emotive masses" are incapable of understanding anything but the...
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Michael Schuerig
mschuerig
Sep 1, 2003 3:18 pm
... Are you sure about that? I think this opinion puts you on a slippery slope. How much suffering of a few are you willing to trade for the benefit of the...
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Alypius Skinner
x65218
Sep 1, 2003 3:17 pm
I understand that the five factor (or, possibly, six factor) traits are independent of one another; but what about the facets or sub-scales that make up the...
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Yehouda Harpaz
yehoudah
Sep 1, 2003 3:17 pm
... One thing that this discussion seem to ignore is that most people tend to avoid admitting that they have done something that they shouldn't, in any sense....
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Timo Järvilehto
tjarvile
Sep 1, 2003 3:16 pm
Steven D'Aprano [mailto:dippy@...] wrote: (Timo Jarvilehto) ... Yes, you are right; human beings may develop (human) consciousness only as a part of...
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Andrew Brown
rackelhanen
Sep 1, 2003 3:15 pm
A question for the neuroscientists on this list. It may not have an answer yet. I was thinking about modularity in the brain, and how it might be formed. The...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Sep 1, 2003 8:51 am
Does anyone have some good references (preferably on-line) or pointers to books that discuss crime and punishment issues from an Evol-Psych perspective? I'm...
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Nancy Melucci
drnanjo
Sep 1, 2003 8:50 am
What I've heard from ZImbardo is that in retrospect the young men in the Prison Experiment felt it was a positive experience, from which they learned a great...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Sep 1, 2003 8:10 am
... [snip] ... Is this not equally true of human beings? Do not the children raised by wolves or otherwise in total isolation from other human beings fail to ...
