The whole concept "natural" does not meaningfully apply in most cases in which that word is used. If the word means "capable of", then whatever we are capable...
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idn17
Oct 2, 2007 12:12 am
Fortunately most modern women, even if attracted to the "bad boys", have more sense than to marry them. I think most have dated one or two and then woke up and...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Oct 2, 2007 12:12 am
I agree completely. IMO the ³man the hunter² and other variant hypotheses fail miserably as an explanation of human information processing abilities. Not to...
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Haci-Murat Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 2, 2007 12:11 am
This excerpt is from J.S. Mill's book with the same name. p. 133 What, in truth, are the conditions necessary to constitute a religion? There must be a creed,...
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idn17
Oct 2, 2007 12:11 am
It's such rubbish, I know literally hundreds of couples at least and they are just normal maybe seemingly dull people. Very few of these wives are out chasing...
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Ligesh
lxlabs
Oct 2, 2007 12:10 am
... You are again completely ignorant about the whole thing, and yet, attempting to deride scientists who are trying to make sense out of it. The problem here...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Oct 2, 2007 12:08 am
Systems governed the standard mechanisms of biological or technological evolution are often described by catalytic evolution equations. We study the structure...
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Orion Anderson
r_karl_s
Oct 2, 2007 12:07 am
Seminar/Study Group on the Psychological Interpretation of War at Fordham University beginning October 12, 7:00 PM Dear Colleague, The seminar/study group on...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Oct 2, 2007 12:07 am
Pat Langley, Oren Shiran, Jeff Shrager, Ljupco Todorovski, Andrew Phorille, 2006. Constructing explanatory process models from biological data and knowledge....
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Oct 2, 2007 12:06 am
Fernando Abdala, J.C. Cisneros, R.M.H. Smith, 2006. Faunal aggregation in the Early Triassic Karoo Basin: earliest evidence of shelter-sharing behaviour among...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Oct 2, 2007 12:06 am
Shuying S. Li, D.K. Pearl, Hani Doss, 2000. Phylogenetic tree construction using Markov chain Monte Carlo. Jour. American Statistical Association...
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Irwin Silverman
silvermanirwin
Oct 1, 2007 3:42 pm
... According to several theories, hunting provided the "key selection pressure" for superior navigation by orientation in males, just as foraging and other...
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Martin Sewell
martinsewell1
Oct 1, 2007 3:40 pm
... Could it be this chap? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Ibn_Sharif Martin...
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Empress9@...
empress999yyy
Oct 1, 2007 3:39 pm
We would have the perception of greater masculinity for the same reason females with larger breasts are perceived as more feminine. Neither is an actual marker...
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Empress9@...
empress999yyy
Oct 1, 2007 3:39 pm
Julienne - ... how one cloaks it in science, logic, sacrifice, or valour. The only brave ones are the poor kids sent to be sacrificed, as Moses was willing to...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 2:56 pm
Attached you will find some comments on specific types of questions on IQ tests. These can be found on a test site from Denmark. The link can be found on Wiki...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 2:36 pm
... I will buy that. So a hero takes risks. Then smashing rules is taking risks. That means Elvis the Pelvis became a hero by taking risks and doing the...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 2:36 pm
... PoMo scholars must then be right. There is no reason why any male should get married. They should all go for sports, acting, music, drugs, tattoing,...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 2:18 pm
... The statement is tautological. The trick is in measuring which behaviors will lead to a fit civilization. One can always go backwards and claim that we are...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Oct 1, 2007 2:04 pm
I always wondered what my wife saw in me.......
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Oct 1, 2007 2:04 pm
From the perspective of an anthropologist, the Sykes¹ surname study involves a modern (historic) western society. ... Re: [evol-psych] Re: Article: Men are...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 1:46 pm
... These are not really spatial skills. Spatial skills refers mostly to 3D rotations, translations etc. If these were spatial skills then "remembering where ...
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Mark Hubey
hubeyh
Oct 1, 2007 1:46 pm
... I think you are both right. One can easily show that the results can be explained via 1) logic 2) probability theory 3) calculus 1) Logic. The simplest is...
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O'Dea
jdodea
Oct 1, 2007 12:37 pm
... Jeremy Bowman: I don't doubt that there is a correlation, but I suppose I'm arguing for something a bit deeper than how strict the correlation is. What I'm...
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bowmanthebard
Oct 1, 2007 11:16 am
... I don't doubt that there is a correlation, but I suppose I'm arguing for something a bit deeper than how strict the correlation is. What I'm really trying...
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Rick O'Gorman
rickogorman
Oct 1, 2007 11:16 am
Mark, I'll just agree to disagree--I think the restatements since Williams have been, in some cases, valuable and progressive. I read Williams about 10 years...
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Julienne
zjulienne
Oct 1, 2007 9:26 am
... This is actually quite startling, isn't it? I wonder if there might be other ways to bring men up to women's levels in female-strong skills? I have no...
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O'Dea
jdodea
Oct 1, 2007 9:24 am
Julian O'Dea: "Secondly, there is little evidence that females used to have sex with men other than their husbands sufficiently often to actually cuckold them....
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O'Dea
jdodea
Oct 1, 2007 9:23 am
... Jeremy Bowman: -- Number of eye-spots cannot be the sole factor. If number of eye-spots were the only factor determining a peacock's reproductive success,...
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Rick O'Gorman
rickogorman
Oct 1, 2007 9:22 am
The problem here is that your example is a binary all-or-nothing example, resting entirely on genetic determinism. You are right that captured females could...
