Michael Lamport Commons: Functional variability needs another explanatory variable other than releasing stimuli. Usually it is reinforced practice. Jay R....
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Nicola Graham-kevan
ngraham-kevan@...
Mar 1, 2006 10:07 am
Hi Steve the research I was referring to found that 2 men + 1 woman was a more frequent choice that 2 women + 1 man. This seems counterintuitive unless a sperm...
Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all. Governments are desperate to halt the trend, but their influence seems to stop at...
I tried to access this paper, but found that a subscription was required. I was trying to confirm my hunch that the paper is a hoax. The people are located...
Well, it is published in the journal. It does look like either a hoax (a'la the Sokal hoax), or a joke (if the journal is in on it). Not only is Nacirema a...
We were assigned "Body Ritual Among The Nacirema," Horace Miner in American Anthropologist, June 1956 in Anthropology 101 many years ago. It's supposed to...
Well, homosexual activist-'researchers' have been hoaxing us for years about: a.. the supposed incidence of homosexuality -- actually one or two percent b.....
Can anyone confirm whether or not Harris lines (growth arrest lines in the long bones that indicate a transitory period of severe malnutrition) are named for...
At 01:06 a.m. 2/03/2006, you wrote: Well spotted! Given the paper contains such statements that ' Tarfs tend to view norp collectively', and 'Many of the most...
In the last 3 weeks, we have published the following reviews of possible interest to this group. We Who Are Dark The Philosophical Foundations of Black...
I would like to imagine that Harris Lines were named after the genius Australian artist, musician and entertainer Rolf Harris, or perhaps Irish born Hollywood...
Santich K Is fudging food memory useful? http://snipurl.com/n2ly MIND & BODY. Sentinel. February 28, 2006 [excerpt] What if you could be tricked into thinking...
I'll swap your info on what New Guinea native children get up to for what Eskimo kids do. If the accepted notions of the harm that child sex abuse supposedly...
from the March 02, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0302/p02s02-uspo.html White House spin reaches science research By Peter N. Spotts | Staff...
Hi Steve! I am not sure about what you would call some activities by some homosexual researchers a "hoax" but I have detected some possibly unsavory activites...
Greetings Sin & Gary! The content of the piece is quite good and insightful! As many in evolutionary psychology have been saying, 'male heterosexuality on this...
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Nicola Graham-kevan
ngraham-kevan@...
Mar 2, 2006 7:44 pm
Hi all I forwarded the sibling violence post to a colleague, Roxanne Khan, who studies this area and her reply is posted below (her contact details are at the...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Mar 2, 2006 7:44 pm
This is an old classic in anthropology. The idea was to point out that we (Americans) also have a culture, and that our culture, which we take for granted as...
Does anyone knows if the sequencing of the mtDNA and of the Y chromosome of the man of Kennewick have been done and if so, what are the haplogroups of the man,...
Alpine GlaciersMay 23, 2005 THE COMING AND GOING OF GLACIERS A New Alpine Melt Theory By Hilmar Schmundt The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know....
Eyes are fooled by spinning, curving balls 04 March 2006 DON'T blame the goalkeeper for failing to block a soccer ball with a spin on it. Likewise in baseball,...
Volume 20 | Issue 2 | Page 51 ... FEATURE Battling Bad Behavior COURTESY YURI MATROSOVICH Anti-alcohol propaganda such as this poster titled "Bartered" was...
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James Gray
James@...
Mar 3, 2006 12:04 am
I would like to comment on this from a slightly different perspective. I think I mostly agree with Jay, but am looking at it from a different perspective. I...
On campus: Evolution, part II By Nathanael Blake Mar 1, 2006 My last column was like a grenade thrown into the choir I've been preaching to. I received scads...
I'm almost certain I recently read a report of a comment by Francis Crick disparaging the quality of science writing--a more eloquent equivalent of "Who can...
Would evolutionary suicide be included in the definition IF a society, focusing upon the general good, retained the genetically less likely to survive through...
... Depends. Neither the set of inputs nor the set of responses has to be small in principle, though I do concede that your description does apply to the...
