Thanks, Jay It's funded by the Templeton Foundation, which is usually aligned with the religious right, but I caught this on their beginner's guide: "The...
Jay, When you retorted, "Get serious," the presumption is that I, Sonny Williams, am the subject. However, I'm not the one responsible for claiming that the...
I don't care to spend the $25 to get this article because I'm not sure I'd find anything illuminating to substantiate these statements made in the abstract:...
Sonny, The "get serious" was meant for the author of those words, not for you. I think you are confusing the ontogeny and phylogeny of behavior, which to...
I have only proposed a correlation between the evolutionary development of our mental capacities as described by Paul McLean and Sir John Eccles with a similar...
I keep forgetting to limit my discussion of human behavior to that narrow term used in ethology, "the movement of individuals." This accounts for my...
Sonny Williams: I keep forgetting to limit my discussion of human behavior to that narrow term used in ethology, "the movement of individuals." This accounts...
To me the more interesting question is "What IS rational behavior"? One can not address if religious rituals are "rational" without first defining what...
...according to Boehm, Zou & Buck (2005): "The fact that GnRH neurons are the master regulators of reproductive endocrine status indicates that pheromone...
Jay, I am sorry to respond to such an old message, but I could not find any replies to it. Your distinction between software and data is not consistent with...
Taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/10/scipygmy110.xml Pygmies life expectancy is between 16 and 24 By Roger Highfield,...
Humans 'evolving to have children later' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 10:01pm GMT 10/12/2007Page 1 of 3 Have your say Read comments ...
'We'd be better off if women ran everything' Desmond Morris transformed our perception of human beings - and enraged feminists - with his 1960s bestseller The...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/07/scimistake106.xml Failing to learn from mistakes is genetic By Roger Highfield, Science...
Taken from http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/19/monkey-pay-sex.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000Monkeys, Too, Will Pay for Sex Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News ...
Jim, I'm happy to get a response from you. If I recall, you are or where a programmer or engineer. To clarify, I don't do programming. I just studied it for a...
Jay, I think your definition of rational behavior is a fine one, but determining if it results in an increase in reproductive success is going to be difficult....
Jay, Did you intend to mean that only culturally acquired information constitutes a belief? It seems to me that a neuron circuit that biases behavior (a...
Sonny Williams: Did you intend to mean that only culturally acquired information constitutes a belief? Jay R. Feierman: No, not at all. The information that...
If someone engages in behavior, one can sometimes not tell right away if the behavior was rational or not. I agree, it is a difficult determination which often...
Jay, I agree completely with your "innate school marm" explanation, but would add that the list of such innate (the context here should clarify what I mean by...
Jay, If, as we agree, it is difficult to assess the reproductive value of an act, doesn't that make your definition meaningless? Back to the definition...
Sonny Williams: Aren't the phrases "ontogenetically- and phylogenetically-acquired" misnomers? I've used them before, and may even be the first source, but...
Sonny Williams: If, as we agree, it is difficult to assess the reproductive value of an act [so as to decide if the act were "rational"], doesn't that make...
Jay, We're conflating two important subjects here, rational and altruistic behavior. I suggest you somehow separate them, but I'll continue to discuss both in...
Sonny Williams: We're conflating two important subjects here, rational and altruistic behavior. I suggest you somehow separate them, but I'll continue to...
Jay, Changing ontogeny to ontogenetically converts it from a noun to an adverb, not an adjective. Thus, as a an "ad-verb" my suggestion that it means you're...
Sonny Williams: As to altruism or costly pro-sociality, your comments suggest that altruism can be viewed in terms of "feeling good" rather than (and often as...
Taken from http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1203/4 Previous Article Selfless. Marmosets appear to practice "true" altruism. Credit:...
