Neuroscience Letters Article in Press, Accepted Manuscript - Note to use Genetic variations in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region...
Source: New York University School of Medicine (news : web) http://www.physorg.com/news176398842.html Precuneus region of human and monkey brain is divided...
It is not frequency but consistency of interactions. I'd expect a consistent and stable hierarchy re sexual access much more than re any resource-competition...
If you include any behaviur that is ever exhibited as just as important as the behaviour that is overwhemingly predominant, and then insist that because of...
Steve Moxon: If you include any behavior that is ever exhibited as just as important as the behaviour that is overwhemingly predominant, and then insist that...
Steve Moxon: It is not frequency but consistency of interactions. Jay R. Feierman: Your initial statement was "We would then expect that dominance-submission,...
I'll give a quick and easy answer to this: It is the basis of sociobiology and behavioural ecology. The "New Synthesis" works only under the assumption of...
Jay R. Feierman: Do you remember Henry Kissinger's statement when he was Secretary of State in the United States during the Nixon administration. He said,...
Hi Jay Your resposes re maternal defence are perverse. [And at one point you even mischaracterise it as "maternal deference".] Maternal defensive behaviour is...
Dear Jay, Ah yes, the prenuptual. Some said that Paul McCartney should have had a prenup with Heather Mills, but he didn't. I can see why potential wives...
Jim, Aha! I'm still not sure about "templates", not sure what they are. Maybe since which animals are dominant within a hierarchy changes, most animals are not...
Hi Chris What you outline is dominance (in the form of prestige rather than an agoistically based superiority). It is dominance in males that confers respect....
Steve Moxon: Hi Jay. Your responses re maternal defence are perverse. [And at one point you even mischaracterise it as "maternal deference".] Maternal...
Hi Jay As I said, it's perverse given the obvious very different context and the differences to the workings of a dominance hierarchy, to call maternal defence...
Jay: Many of the sports figures and rock stars, who earn tens of millions of dollars a year, are not highly educated. Yet, they were able to rise to the top of...
Hi Jay; It seems to me that you are not actually discussing the issue with me so much as trying to fit me with a label. In this instance, despite the fact...
Steve Moxon: Hi Jay. As I said, it's perverse given the obvious very different context and the differences to the workings of a dominance hierarchy, to call...
Hi Chris, Jay But this is what most people get so wrong. Survival for humans could not have been that difficult. The problem was dealing with the intricacies...
Helga: I am not sure what exactly you meant when you said that this system was "tweaked". To me, that sounds as it it was given a few pins and darts not found...
Jay wrote: Because what we call "personality," which are different behavioral predispositions, is not under strong directional selection. If you think of the...
Hi Jay As I've explained, we'll have to disagree. Steve Moxon [author of the book, The Woman Racket: The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work,...
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Provided by CNRS http://www.physorg.com/print176566210.html Discovery of the oldest European marsupial November 4th, 2009 in Other Sciences / Archaeology &...
Source: The Royal Society http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/11/04/rspb.2009.1450.abstract?papetoc Lifetime reproductive effort in...
Source: University of Haifa (news : web) http://www.physorg.com/news176550386.html What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker? November 4th, 2009 in...
Experience Matters: Females Use Smell to Select Experienced Males for Paternal Care Nichola Fletcher1, Ellen J. Storey1, Magnus Johnson2, Donald J. Reish3,...
Jim Dehn: But within social animal species, personalities, or behavioral predispositions must be under selection, a successful group, especially a hunting...