I have uploaded a draft for comments for version 12.0 of "How Religion Could Have Evolved," which is an invited chapter for the forthcoming book, The...
Talk about "just so stories!" This is an agregious example! When these researchers find the genetic basis for different approaches to saloon bouncers, wake...
Jay, I've been busy with family health issues, but I hope my comments will be helpful. I'm still concerned about how your defintion of adaptation as "a...
Sonny, I'm not sure what the "just so story' is in this study. They say that before they collected the data that based on the (biological) theory that males...
Sonny, I spent about 2 hours responding to all of your very useful comments, many of which I incorporated in the paper. When I was on the last comment, my...
Jay, Glad I could be of some help. My email did this same thing several times, so when I have a lengthy, detailed email to compose I use MS Word, saving it...
I have uploaded 5 PDF files to the group's web page under "FILES" and then "DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS" by Malcolm Dean on cognitive thermodynamics. These papers are...
Sonny Williams: I'm on your side regarding the term "mind." Jay R. Feierman: That's a radical conversion. Sonny Williams: I now have a better understanding of...
Jay, What do they mean that "the evolutionary hypothesis was confirmed," if not that they confirmed the observed behavior was acquired via DNA? Many of the EP...
Sonny Williams: What do they mean that "the evolutionary hypothesis was confirmed," if not that they confirmed the observed behavior was acquired via DNA? Jay...
Jay, Here are a few points that could hopefully help to `brush up' your chapter. I like it a lot and think you have done a terrific job. Please keep the group...
Sonny Williams: What do they mean that "the evolutionary hypothesis was confirmed," if not that they confirmed the observed behavior was acquired via DNA?...
James, Thank you very much. I incorporated many of your suggestions. The conference was already held in September in Germany. I gave the talk "The Ethology of...
Jay, I'm not aware of having made a "radical conversion" regarding my agreement with your... well, your dislike of the term "mind." It's a term that comes too...
Sonny wrote: These genes likely (it's not "proven" until we find the genes) code for a particular neuronal structure, structures or directed neurotransmitter...
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"Cognition converts Energy and Matter to In-formation. Like Information, Cognition is a function, not a substance . . . There is therefore no requirement for a...
Bruce Lepper: An animal which sees a conspecific behaving in an untypical fashion is going to feel threatened. Jay R. Feierman: Non-human vertebrates recognize...
Jay R. Feierman wrote: Bruce Lepper: An animal which sees a conspecific behaving in an untypical fashion is going to feel threatened. Jay R. Feierman:...
I'm reminded of a recent article (Science or Nature, probably), in which cockroaches followed a robot cockroach to an area in which they would not normally...
Jay's "culturally-acquired first, DNA-acquired second" perspective is fine as far as it goes, but when does one insist on something other than speculation...
Sonny Williams: Jay's "culturally-acquired first, DNA-acquired second" perspective is fine as far as it goes, but when does one insist on something other than...
NEUROETHOLOGY: BEHAVIOR, EVOLUTION & NEUROBIOLOGY August 10-15, 2008 Magdalen College Oxford, United Kingdom Chairs: Catherine E. Carr & Paul S. Katz Vice...