... Correcting pre-Flynn-effect (low) I.Q.s -- by taking care of basic nutrition, toxins, infections, etc. -- is one thing, not terribly difficult (we just...
Hi Annabelle I suppose the classic example would be what happened in Russia after it stopped being the USSR and made a failed bid to become a normally...
Edgar, i have no evidence that sperm mitochondria would be degraded, but they are nonetheless discarded after fertilization. Mitochondria do have loads of...
Sonny, Would that your statement were true I would fully agree - with some latitude given for humor. However the group of adult white males are never or rarely...
Sonny, There could certainly be genetic components conveying a sensitivity to the effect of TV as you suggest, but TV is likely by far the primary cause of...
Jeremy, Jeremy, My quote below is what I've been saying all along. It is your understanding that seems to have suddenly reversed itself. Remember my hardware...
Graeme, I agree completely that if society acts on the information content of a social insult it can have devastating effects, but those effects derive from...
Sussa, Telomere shortening I believe is the major cause of cell line death (and thus aging), not oxidative damage. Every cell line seems to have a set number...
Evolution of sexes/sex--- A classic paper on the evolution of anisogamy ("not-same gametes" referring to sizes) is by evolutionary psychology's own John Tooby...
Gerald Mayr, 2008. The higher-level phylogeny of birds--when morphology, molecules, and fossil coincide. Oryctos 7:67-74. ABSTRACT. Although the higher-level...
... Essay-writing is a good example of a high-order, integrative activity which is assisted, to be sure, maybe even greatly assisted, by high I.Q. But high...
Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2008) — A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain...
Edgar, There are other things driving evolution than simply efficiency of replication. That's why we are not all bacteria. But I guess your idea of germ cells...
Edgar, my father grew up without a television (in the forties and early fifties) and he has ADHD. Also, have you read Simon Baron-Cohen's book on his theory...
Look at the diagram again. The Hasse Diagram explains the answer exactly why which is above/below what. Those that are "comparable" (see wiki on comparability)...
... This is religious claptrap. Inasmuch as it is even coherent, it seems to be a "computer age" version of the ancient idea that nature is animated by "the...
1. It is only true that there can be no inter-sexual conflict for dominance if you accept (a priori) the theory that the purpose of a dominance hierarchy is to...
... One idea I read years ago is that autistic people have abnormally low amounts of neurotransmitters in their cerebral fluid, another possibility is that...
From the "Effects of Poverty on Cognitive Function" thread, post 74645... ... Here, at the risk of overkill, is a pile of stuff. Note that the iodine reviews...
This is a supplement to the previous post on "Iodine, Thyroid Hormones..." SNIPPITS: "From 5-20% of the American population have some thyroid abnormality,...
Another angle on this: thyroid dysfunction, thyroid hormone resistance, and/or iodine deficiency? feingold.org gives medline links to all these items: ...
... A quantum state is a mathematical object that fully describes a particle, and the quantum state (not the position or momentum) is the only fundamental...
Molly, One data point doesn't falsify my theory of course. The important statistic is the great rise in the autism rate post-TV. I haven't read the book you...
... No, I selected {z} and {x,y} because neither is included in the other. ... Exactly (minus the misspellings). ... No, there only APPEARS to be a hierarchy...
Jeremy, Well I give up. If the laws of nature were not part and parcel of nature at the most basic level then how would nature know how to behave, how would it...
Sussa, I was under the impression that telomerase, which regenerates telomeres and maintains telomere length, was only active in germ cells not somatic cells....
Steve, Good examples all. This could go on forever. I think the only rational approach is to go back and embrace our good old pre-PC linguistic usage and revel...
Quite false. There is overwhelming evidence -- including incontrovertible evidence from gene 'knockout' experiments -- that dominance is only ever intra-sexual...
Edgar, An increase in the incidence of autism and ADHD is largely due to improved, modern reporting... but a large component could still also be because of...
