Behold the Talking Chimp Zeroing in on the genetic basis of language By Gary Marcus From our common ancestor with chimpanzees, it took only six million years,...
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robert emmet
scienceofrom...
Jun 5, 2004 12:19 pm
Here is the reference I was asking for. It says much about the stability of a hunting-foraging way of life and about health. Hope it is useful to you Tom. ...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Jun 5, 2004 4:46 pm
... Men have greater visual acuity - that is, they can perceive an object in the distance more readily. Women have superior visuo-spatial memory (recall of...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Jun 5, 2004 4:46 pm
... This is a travesty. There is no claim here that Michael Bailey abused his interviewees or their anonymity, and if we were going to begin rooting out...
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Mike Miller
mbmillermo
Jun 5, 2004 4:47 pm
... Anna-- You "demolished" a theory of transsexualism years ago. What theory was that? How did you "demolish"; it? Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant...
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Jeremy Bowman
bowmanthebard
Jun 5, 2004 4:47 pm
Any disagreement over whether or not X is "scientific" seems to me to be childish if no attempt is made to demarcate "science" from other sorts of inquiry such...
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Mike Miller
mbmillermo
Jun 5, 2004 7:02 pm
... IRBs generally decide based on the arbitrary choices of the members of the current panel, some of whom have no scientific training at all. This tends to...
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Ralph L Holloway
ralph_10027
Jun 5, 2004 7:03 pm
... I would add that "science" also includes the ability and willingness to question one's own biases. which requires recognizing what they might be. I've seen...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 7:13 pm
Mike Miller wrote: There is a problem with terminology here. A book cannot be "science." A book can present scientific information or research results. It...
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artemistroy
Jun 5, 2004 9:29 pm
SEX, TIME & POWER: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? In...
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John W. Bush
jwb7807
Jun 5, 2004 9:32 pm
Amen! Enough of this self-serving wowserism. ^------ This is a travesty. There is no claim here that Michael Bailey abused his interviewees or their...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:33 pm
Quoth the raven Now, it seems, even the bird-brained have theories of mind HUMANS like to regard themselves as exceptional. Other animals do not have complex,...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:42 pm
TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.8 No.5 May 2004 The universal psychology of kinship: evidence from language Doug Jones Department of Anthropology, 102 Stewart...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:43 pm
Harold Fromm ... Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson's Evolutionary Existentialism The stern old faiths have all pulverized. 'Tis a whole population of gentlemen...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:44 pm
Love really is blind... Neuroscience can at last explain why we can't see faults in our partners or children. Raj Persaud reports Can science help us to...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:49 pm
Is Sex Everything? By Kenneth Silber Published 06/03/2004 E-Mail Bookmark Print Save TCS Why do people have sex? The answer given by many evolutionary...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:50 pm
Dolphin DNA Shows Dads Leave Home By Heather Catchpole, ABC Science Online The first use of genetic testing to study dolphin social behavior shows males are...
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Ian Pitchford
ipitchford
Jun 5, 2004 9:51 pm
Link proved between senses and memory Brain scans show how sights and smells evoke the past. Michael Hopkin Marcel Proust reflected that "the smell and taste...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Jun 6, 2004 1:26 am
RKS: humans have no unique abilities that I am aware of. Of course the extent of our abilities goes far beyond our fury and feathered friends, but they are...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Jun 6, 2004 1:26 am
The sentence that caught my eye in the synopsis of Leonard Shlain's SEX, TIME & POWER posted on this list is, "Her [the human female's] estrus disappeared and...
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Mike Miller
mbmillermo
Jun 6, 2004 3:00 am
... More precisely: 29.5 days source: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html Mike...
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JVK
kohljv
Jun 6, 2004 3:00 am
... From a biological perspective it is likely that adult males more readily identify and report their interest in visual sexual stimuli. Measurement of...
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Mike Miller
mbmillermo
Jun 6, 2004 3:00 am
... I noticed that too. I have no special expertise, but I'll just say that women vary greatly in cycle length. Some have 40 day cycles, some 20 days. Maybe...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Jun 6, 2004 3:17 am
Jay R. Feierman wrote: -- it is indisputable that adult males are more interested in visual sexual stimuli than are adult females. From a biological...
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JVK
kohljv
Jun 6, 2004 6:53 am
... The mammalian olfactory model for the development of sexual preferences extends fully to sexual orientation. There is sufficient neuroanatomical and...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Jun 6, 2004 6:56 am
... There are many genes which have different effects depending on the sex of the body they are in. For instance, genes for large penis size presumably don't...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Jun 6, 2004 6:58 am
... My copy of "The Selfish Gene" gives 11 references to kin selection in the index, including one noted as "necessary consequence of Darwinism". Dawkins...
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Euterpel66@...
Jun 6, 2004 7:00 am
In a message dated 6/5/2004 4:58:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stonjek@... writes: The idea that the process and formal mechanism employed by Sue ...
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Euterpel66@...
Jun 6, 2004 7:00 am
My adult daughter who has Asperger's Syndrome recently told me that she never understood one-liners and why people laughed at them. BTW she's right-handed. My...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Jun 6, 2004 9:19 am
Earlier in this thread, it was suggested that men suffering from 5-alpha reductase deficiency could not pass their genes on due to the fact that they ejaculate...
