... From: Sonny Williams <sonnyw@...> Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Re: The Role of Function in Natural Selection To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date:...
Glen, I am trying to get a better handle on what you are saying when you say "functionally defined". For photons to be a stimulus, they have to fall on the...
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Sonny Williams: Jay, The V1aR gene is not "a sufficient cause of the trait," a monogamous mating pattern? How can that be if its absence means the vole...
Simon Gadbois: Sounds to me like play should not be studied by ethology. So far, this is the message I am getting from Jay. Jay R. Feierman: Just because one...
Jay R. Feierman wrote: Simon Gadbois: Sounds to me like play should not be studied by ethology. So far, this is the message I am getting from Jay. Jay R....
Bruce Lepper: It's true, though, that by saying "one cannot trace the phylogeny of playing" or of language, etc., and that only structurally-defined traits can...
Jay, You cannot say "The entire field of physiology is the science of determining the proximate use function of structures," as the term "use-function" was...
Sonny Williams: Jay, You cannot say "The entire field of physiology is the science of determining the proximate use function of structures," as the term...
Glen, Thanks for the additional explanation. I agree that objects and events cannot be considered stimuli unless they have been observed to so function in...
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Sonny Williams: Tinbergen's 4 questions are simply foundations, and I've come to understand them best by comprising several paraphrases of them. Anyone who...
Sonny Williams: Jay, I think the proper term to use consistently is "fitness value," which often goes beyond individual reproduction and survival. I've read...
Sonny Williams: Jay, I think you're in the minority in believing that the products of natural selection, structures (or design features), cannot be the...