Ron: Have you read of any of the studies about the influence of religion in mating and dating? That is, studies that quantify how much religiousity is desired...
Dear Sonny, This is what I was thinking when you posted your first response to my original question about stay at home dads/husbands. When you posted your...
GS: Selection operates on function, and it is structures that evolve. SG: That is what any behavioural ecologist would agree with. Otherwise, why would...
I agree that the traditional father/mother roles will remain the norm, since men don't have breast milk and are instincitively inferior in nurturing behavioral...
James, You seem to be taking Jay's lines without thinking independently. As we all agree, natural selection is a blind process, which can and is translated...
Heredity (2006) 97, 377-378. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800896; published online 4 October 2006 The longevity of Y chromosomes: The Human Y chromosome is not dead...
Heredity (2006) 97, 258-268. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800848; published online 31 May 2006 Inbreeding reduces power-law scaling in the distribution of fluctuating...
Volume 18, Issue 8, 22 April 2008, Pages R344-R345 Social Cognition: LIP Activity Follows the Leader Wendy E. Huddleston1 and Kari L. Hoffman2, 1Department of...
Heredity (2008) 100, 484-488; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6801093; published online 23 January 2008 Kin selection and the evolution of virulence A Buckling1 and M A...
... behaviorists, on careful use of language. I am willing to be convinced that I am wrong; you just have not done so as yet. The issue bothers me enough,...
JFD: First things first, I didn't attack Glen's position. Sonny: James, You seem to be taking Jay's lines without thinking independently. JFD: Ok, I understand...
Glen Sizemore: There is NOTHING teleological about the notion of selection of function. Nothing at all. Jay R. Feierman: The question is not answerable as to...
James Bond: Social influences are a powerful force in determining human behavior, but evolutionary influences are powerful too. Jay R. Feierman: We evolved to...
Glen Sizemore: You, and Jay, have mistaken descriptions of what natural selection acts on, with teleology. Jay R. Feierman: Glen, I am very familiar with the...
Glen Sizemore: Selection operates on function, and it is structures that evolve. Simon Gadbois: That is what any behavioural ecologist would agree with....
there was a reasearch programe presented on national geography, in whch they determine that which animal has most powerful bite. They use a detector for this....
In the video "Dog Attack Styles" a "Digital Bite Meter" is used to compare dog head size and bite strength. If this is not the video you have watched, you can...
While I do think that selection is unlikely to act in such a way as to endow men with improved mammary glands, I disagree with the notion that they are...
Jay asked me a question about my use of the term "selection contingencies, and I have not yet answered. I will do so now, and this post should cover a lot of...
Ron: With all due respect Dr. Feierman, how are we to draw conclusions in evolutionary psychology without self-reported data? Jay R. Feierman: Observing and...
I am just curious. Are e-mails on groups like this and scholarly papers merely posted on a web site considered published? I would assume that such things can...
Jay R. Feierman: Natural selection is the term given to the outcome of the process of random genetic mutation > structural variation due to the random genetic...
Glen Sizemore: My main point was that artificial selection is an example of selection acting on function, or measures of function. Jay R. Feierman: I've...
Heredity (2006) 97, 2-3. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800840; published online 17 May 2006 Speciation: Splitting when together D Ortiz-Barrientos1 and L H Rieseberg1 ...
Heredity (2006) 97, 84-85. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800852; published online 24 May 2006 Population genetics: DNAs from the European Neolithic G Barbujani1 and L...
Heredity (2006) 96, 335. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800800 From DNA to diversity: molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design (2nd ed.) SB Carroll, JK...
Heredity (2006) 96, 419-420. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800802 The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: roots of Evo-Devo The Roots of Evo-Devo Ron...
