Details, details. The big picture here is that Fodor rejects evolutionary theory out of hand and entirely. He is completely unwilling to either understand or...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Dec 1, 2004 9:52 am
Carmi Turchick ... <Snip> RKS: Genes are not selfish or 'selfish'. The flow of genetic material does occur and some genes become more common than others, but...
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O Gorman, Rick
rickogorman
Dec 1, 2004 8:24 pm
... Or just very stubborn, locked in by ideological considerations, as many social scientists/humanists are also, in my experience. I saw Fodor talk once and...
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Kathryn Coe
kathryncoe
Dec 1, 2004 8:49 pm
I wonder if, when studying pornography, we should not so quickly take a moralistic stance, in the sense that we dismiss those who dislike pornography. You can...
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lecody
lecody2001
Dec 1, 2004 8:49 pm
I focus much better when I am mildly ill, hung over [a very rare occurance] or mildly sleep deprived. If the task at hand is physical, then none of the above...
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Paul Okami
kozureokami2002
Dec 1, 2004 8:52 pm
Don Symons has commented extensively on pornography and romance novels from an evolutionary perspective, and has co-authored a book on a odd variant of romance...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Dec 1, 2004 9:03 pm
RALPH HOLLOWAY: "Surely you must concur that these positions are sheer speculation." ***** Yes, the hypothesis for neurological reorganization is speculative....
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Euterpel66@...
Dec 1, 2004 9:08 pm
When you say this Joseph, (b) that the human mind is “modular” in character—consisting of discrete bits of dedicated neural circuitry automatically...
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johnhewitt22
Dec 1, 2004 9:11 pm
On Nov 23, 2004, Robert Karl Stonjek posted this link to Cosmides and Tooby's primer on evolutionary psychology. ...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Dec 1, 2004 9:27 pm
When you say this Joseph, (b) that the human mind is "modular" in character-consisting of discrete bits of dedicated neural circuitry automatically activated...
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Paul Okami
kozureokami2002
Dec 1, 2004 10:15 pm
Kathryn, you seem to assuming that sexual arousal leads probabilistically to rape. Is that what you mean be sexual arousal threatens female mate choice? If...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Dec 1, 2004 10:17 pm
... Does that matter? There is no satisfactory definition for "species" that holds in all cases and all circumstances. To turn to your proposed data-centric...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Dec 1, 2004 11:23 pm
Ancestor's DNA code reconstructed The work should help us understand how humans are put together Scientists have re-constructed part of the genetic code that...
Nature 432, 580 - 587 (02 December 2004); doi:10.1038/nature03112 A synaptic laminin-calcium channel interaction organizes active zones in motor nerve...
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Ralph L Holloway
ralph_10027
Dec 1, 2004 11:26 pm
... My point was , and remains, that these authors have made no attempt to examine the issue of neurological organization, despite the fact that ...
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Peter H. McCusker
dweebadonis
Dec 1, 2004 11:27 pm
Non-human animals generally have no issue with having sex in view of their fellow "group" members. Watching their fellow groupmates "doing it" stimulates...
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Paul Okami
kozureokami2002
Dec 1, 2004 11:55 pm
Then how would you explain pornography that includes only single females (or males, for that matter)? Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler created vast empires...
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artemispub
artemistroy
Dec 2, 2004 12:03 am
Fearless Mothers By Alex Stone November 30, 2004 | Mind & Brain Faced with a threat to their young, mothers often act as if they feel no fear. A new study...
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artemispub
artemistroy
Dec 2, 2004 2:07 am
The Hidden History of Men A research team braves Central Asia to capture a surprising genetic record of human migration and military conquest By Robert Kunzig ...
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DiggittMc@...
Dec 2, 2004 5:23 am
The burden that has been laid at the feet of porn suffers from twisted logic. Just as every hopeless alcoholic probably started with a beer, and people dying...
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Kathryn Coe
kathryncoe
Dec 2, 2004 5:23 am
That, I would say, is an overstatement. rape does not probabilistically lead to many things, not even male orgasm. It does not probabilistically lead to STDs,...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Dec 2, 2004 5:51 am
Far fewer human genes exist than we once thought, scientists say Posted Oct. 25, 2004 Courtesy Nature and World Science staff Ten years ago, scientists thought...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Dec 2, 2004 5:51 am
Diggitt McLaughlin: The burden that has been laid at the feet of porn suffers from twisted logic. Just as every hopeless alcoholic probably started with a...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Dec 2, 2004 9:18 pm
... We human beings have an imagination. Seeing an attractive person we would like to have sex with, we can imagine ourselves having sex with them. -- Steven...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Dec 2, 2004 9:31 pm
... I would say that we *know* it is small, since the sales figures for pornography are in the many hundreds of thousands but the incidence of rape is...
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Robert Bauserman
bausermanr@...
Dec 2, 2004 9:34 pm
Kathryn, I would argue that it is an overstatement to say that human males are "hypersexual." That they (on average) are more receptive to casual sex than...
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Ralph L Holloway
ralph_10027
Dec 2, 2004 9:52 pm
... OK, Joe (may I call you Joe?). Try to place yourself within the social and information context of say, Australian aborigines, whose only cultural remains...
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Richard Rodgerson
rodge006@...
Dec 2, 2004 9:53 pm
I believe it's generally agreed that rape, e.g. is about power, not sex. I don't think the above conforms to the findings of those that have examined rape from...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Dec 2, 2004 9:54 pm
... Steven D'Aprano ... RKS: The beginning of sexual arousal occurs in the presence of a suitable mate pretty well for all animals. No imagination is...
