Kudos to Doyle for posting this excellent paper. In many ways it is a sunbstitute for reading "The Generic Nature..." paper of Skinner. I don't agree with...
Glen Sizemore: I understand how folk-psychology works, thank you. But the cause of the male [dog's] behavior lies in the past - it lies in the phylogeny that...
Jay R. Feierman: Often appetitive behavior is just searching (walking) looking for a particular releasing stimulus that releases the consummatory act. The...
Jay R. Feierman: In your world, do you believe that humans can have goals, which are things towards which they work and which are contributing causes of their...
... Simon Gadbois: True that in Europe "Ethology" is simply synonymous with "Animal Behaviour", independently of the academic background. To some extent, in...
Krebs? The Behavioural Ecologist Krebs?! Really? Evolutionary psychology is not just for psychologists and anthropologists after all... Simon Gadbois ... ...
Taken from http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html The Largest Atheist / Agnostic Populations Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists /...
Taken from http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Desmond_Morris Desmond Morris "There have been many arguments about the location of the immortal human...
Taken from http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13860?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn13860 Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals a.. 17:11 22...
Published online 22 May 2008 | Nature | Your belly's very own body clock Food availability can shift sleep patterns, though researchers aren't sure how. Rachel...
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/21/morris-desmond-gestures-language_sp08-cx_lr_1024morris.html Language Desmond Morris On Symbolic Gestures 02.21.08, 6:00 PM ET ...
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080523/full/news.2008.852.html Humans can judge a dog by its growl Katharine Sanderson If you thought a high-pitched growl...
From The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris, 1967: "In a sense, we still believe in an after-life, because part of the reward obtained from our creative works is the...
Glen Sizemore wrote: GS: The term "consciousness" is a behavioral phenomenon. It is not more "a physiological phenomenon" than hitting a drop shot. In order...
The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies, Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson (Eds.), New York and London: The Guilford Press. Lee...
The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies, Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson (Eds.), New York and London: The Guilford Press. Lee...
... From: Jay R. Feierman <jfeierman@...> Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Goals To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 7:32 PM ...
... From: Jay R. Feierman <jfeierman@...> Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Goals To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 2:09 PM ...
[Moderator Note: James, do you have the reference for this abstract? Too bad Lorenz did not live to see this.] A Specific and Rapid Neural Signature for...
... From: jamesfrancisd <jamesfrancisd@...> Subject: [human-ethology] Re: Who or what's the agent? To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, May...
In an earlier post to Jay, I neglected to bring up the "Peterson imprinting experiment" that I have mentioned before. In that experiment, an apparatus was...
... From: Bruce Lepper <bruce@...> Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Goals To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 3:28 AM ... BL:...
... From: Jay R. Feierman <jfeierman@...> Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Goals To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 1:18 PM ...
Jay R. Feierman: Humans have the capacity to know about and reflect about the past and to imagine what the future may be. Do you deny this? Glen Sizemore: No,...
I agree. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371% 2Fjournal.pone.0001664 ... abstract? Too bad Lorenz did not live to see this.] ... specific ... ...
Jay R. Feierman: The head [rather than the entire body] sees . . . Glen Sizemore: Maybe, if you could keep a disembodied head alive. But this is silliness. Not...
Glen Sizemore: OK, Jay, let's play the mentalism game this way: let's say that "beliefs" are, indeed, "things in the brain." How does one "give an animal a...
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