There is something that those who study evolution can have lots of fun with. Typically, complex things are studied first in simple ways, or using very simple...
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hgintis
hgintis@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:15 am
... I don't follow this. Behavioral regularities are statistical regularities. So we could find that on average people act in manner p, while there is a range...
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Jon Entine
runjonrun@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:15 am
Salon.com Friday, January 28, 2000 THE BLACK EDGE Are athletes of African descent genetically superior? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Gary Kamiya EXCERPTS: As...
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Timo Jarvilehto
tjarvile@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:15 am
Poor Paul got here the blame, although the text was mine. Anyways, ... I think it is a very narrow point of view to regard evolutionary psychology only as a...
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Andrew Brown
alloneword@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:33 am
On Saturday, January 29, 2000, at 1:01:50 AM, David Mullen wrote: [I don't know if you meant this to go to the list; I can redirect the correspondence there if...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:33 am
Monday, January 31, 2000 Academics take aim at 'racist science' Outrage over Rushton Andy Lamey National Post Philippe Rushton's online mass mailing has...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:39 am
Sunday, January 30, 2000 LOS ANGELES TIMES Napoleon Chagnon's War of Discovery He Wrote a Bestseller in the '60s About One of the Last Undiscovered Peoples on...
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Graham D. Richards
G.D.Richards@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:58 am
Ah! I've always wondered why China was so underpopulated compared to Chad. But seriously, has Rushton ever published his own dimensions (as it were) so that...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:58 am
Another strange piece from Steve Sailer containing all the usual fallacies: evolution=progress, human nature=genes, head size is a measure of human...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:47 pm
TIME MAGAZINE ESSAY JANUARY 31, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 4 How "Natural" Is Rape? Despite a daffy new theory, it's not just a guy in touch with his inner caveman BY...
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David Smith
DavidLSmith@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:48 pm
Dear Herbert I don't see any connection between 'free will' (by which I take you to mean metaphysical freedom) and the assignment to positions around your ...
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PRGHOME@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:37 pm
In a message dated 2/1/00 9:03:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Or, to put it even more brutally (for which, apologies): The usual notion of "free will"...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:37 pm
... (TJ REPLIES) ... The term "brain" is figurative in the context above; referring as well to "mind", "psyche", or whatever concept is used to describe the ...
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Timo Jarvilehto
tjarvile@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:16 pm
... For a neuroscientist (and psychologist), like myself, the brain is not figurative at all. It is the messy organ within the cranium having branches over the...
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Victoria Harrison
Vichar@...
Feb 1, 2000 7:13 pm
Announcement: Upcoming Conference on "The Relationship System and Individual Variation in Emotional Functioning" April 15-16,2000 at Georgetown Family Center,...
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Chris Borthwick
cborthwick@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:08 am
Re the Suicide Gene (see below) Can I conduct a brief thought experiment here? ( Let's assume for the sake of argument that this finding doesn't evaporate...
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Bill McKim
bmckim@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:09 am
... You must use statistics when you deal with large numbers of observations. It is merely a simple tool to help you do that - it permits you to deal with and...
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hgintis
hgintis@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:09 am
Unfortunately, there is such a thing as "randomness," and it is not due to unexplained causality. This is the heart of the superposition principle in quantum...
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Premise Checker
checker@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:13 am
New York Times February 1, 2000 Viewing Depression as Tool for Survival By ERICA GOODE The case, Dr. Randolph M. Nesse said, does not fit tidily with the view...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:16 am
Slate.com This week, Steven Pinker interrogates Robert Wright on his new book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (click here to read excerpts from Nonzero,...
... You are right, but there is, however, a frightening scenario (which Bernie Baars even already suggested if I understand him correctly): when social...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 2, 2000 11:08 am
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, Issue 3, 955-955, February 1, 2000 Vol. 97, Issue 3, 955-955, February 1, 2000 Editorial Making Back Issues of PNAS Online...
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Nick.Atkinson@...
Feb 2, 2000 4:50 pm
H M Hubey wrote... ... I had similar thoughts. I don't know who thought of it first, but the BBC broadcast "Robot Wars", which sounds as though it is the same...
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Rick Goldberg
goldberg@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:07 pm
Fellow HBES'ers: After having read MacDonald's trilogy and spoken with him on the subject matter more than once, I remain with my own judgements regarding his ...
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H. Mark Hubey
HubeyH@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:06 pm
... Years ago, I read that the average Japanese is now 2-3 inches taller and that about 90% of this height is from the waist down i.e. longer legs. This means...
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McBride, Dennis
dmcbride@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:07 pm
This is interesting, but there is actually a much less expensive version of the idea. Similar capabilities already exist based entirely on computer models (of...
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Jeffrey W. Humphrey
jwh5n@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:10 pm
In re: to a small part of the steve sailer piece, specfically limits on artificially engineering IQ by contstraints on cranial size: cerebellar to cerebral...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:16 pm
FOR RELEASE: 2 FEBRUARY 2000 AT 14:00 ET US University of Hawaii http://www.hawaii.edu/ Evolutionary implications: myoglobin-like proteins found in ancient ...
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Ian Pitchford
Ian.Pitchford@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:18 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2 FEBRUARY 2000 (2 FEBRUARY 2000 GMT) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.uiuc.edu/ Rotational motion detected in...
