Edgar Owen: Rough and oversimplified explanations are as follows: a priori knowledge is independent of experience, while a posteriori knowledge is dependent on...
Hi Steve, This is an egregious example of "disregarding evidence that doesn't ... It's a stab in the dark, but I would guess that in terms of total biomass and...
On the contrary, Jeremy: read my last post on this subject. In both the ZZ/ZW and XX/XY systems there is achieved the same end of enhancing the male role as...
Women could have told them that without 60 years of research! Shame that people go through such pain with surgery, whether these mentioned, or breast implants...
Jay, Yes, one can certainly describe animal actions with algorithms with some success. These are descriptions of behavior. The question we are considering (and...
Edgar Owen: Yes, one can certainly describe animal actions with algorithms with some success. These are descriptions of behavior. Jay R. Feierman: The...
Hi Steve, Please explain, in your own words, how the genes of males are more "exposed" to selective pressures than the genes of females. Thanks -- Jeremy...
Hi Steve, ... -- I have my doubts. I've often thought that there is probably a connection between homogamety and conspicuous ornament, as exemplified by some...
... To continue the silly selection game, suppose I add a little bit more complexity. Suppose the three-gene living-thing has three body parts; head, thorax, ...
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A generally missing perspective in this thread, though sometimes touched on, is that suicide is a social process. In other words, rather than suicide being...
... Could the ornamentation serve the purpose of decoys to lure predators away from the nests? In the case of the peacock the tail could serve to make it look...
I'm more on Jay's side than Edgar's here (and thanks for the Lorenz 'lost ms' pointer, Jay). However, while I see no grounds for crediting symbolic abilities...
Steve Moxon RKS pulls me up on having cited a "purposeless purpose" in saying that it is more the case that life is in order to reproduce rather than that...
< Michael H. Barnes, Ph.D Professor, Religious Studies wrote Teutonic, Slavic, and Celtic myths do not include a deluge, nor do Chinese and Japanese, nor...
Hi Jeremy I've already done so, but quickly ..... * Males are obliged to compete for access to the sex that is the limiting factor in reproduction, and which...
Hello all, The latest issue of the open access journal the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 3.2 is now available online at: ...
Hi All, Other studies in the US have shown similar results, with women getting the short stick when it comes to sympathy and actual help when sick with other...
Andy Lock: I would not wish to deny animal 'subjectivity', in the sense of their living in a perceptual world. Jay R. Feierman: Today, when I was changing the...
Nature Cell Biology - 9, 654 - 659 (2007) Published online: 7 May 2007; | doi:10.1038/ncb1596 Exosome-mediated transfer of mRNAs and microRNAs is a novel...
This relates to RKS' contention that we reproduce in order to live, which I pointed out was to have it backwards: in fact we live in order to reproduce. RKS'...
Lessons From The Orangutans: Upright Walking May Have Begun In The Trees Science Daily - By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking...
This common mis-perception is very well known and very easily explained. It is abundantly clear that it is women and not men who do much more complaining about...
Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome Scott H. Williamson1*, Melissa J. Hubisz1¤a, Andrew G. Clark2, Bret A. Payseur2¤b, Carlos D....
... From: Jay R. Feierman To: evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [evol-psych]do animals 'know'? Andy...
Science 1 June 2007: Vol. 316. no. 5829, pp. 1328 - 1331 DOI: 10.1126/science.1140799 Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible...
Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome Scott H. Williamson1*, Melissa J. Hubisz1¤a, Andrew G. Clark2, Bret A. Payseur2¤b, Carlos D....
jAY:I am defining consciousness as "the awareness of self-awareness," Er, there is no consciousness that does not include self-consciousness. To be conscious...
Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA In Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass To Offspring Science Daily - The science has long been clear that smoking causes cancer, but new...
"Australian men are more likely than women to complain if they have a cold or flu - and to seek sympathy for their ailment from their partners." There are...
Hi Julienne, Perhaps because the female should be naturally nurturing and caring but modern women aren't, so the man tries whining to attempt to stimulate a...
