... Language with technological augementation is certainly suitable for extremely large group use, BUT most language is used in small groups, especially the...
Dale, I read your posts with interest but they are always replete with "I believe" and "I think" and offer very little evidence to support any of your ...
Michael, Of course, they are speculations, I am very open about that. Still just because they are not juried really makes them no more speculative than say...
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:52:17 -0000, "Dale Hoogeveen" <no1son@...> ... You must read different newspapers from me if you think truces are easy in humans....
... (snip) Teams form naturally ... C. Northcote Parkinson certainly agrees with you on effective size of committees, or whatever. Bear in mind that work...
On the discussion on communications and group size: I am footling about with Austronesian languages (see *below). It is very noticeable that, as these...
... strangers is no problem in nearly any human culture. In a restaurant we may even converse with strangers at the next table. By contrast that is impossible...
... That paragraph would have a whole classroom of undergraduate linguistics student trembling with fear, rage, and/or laughter! (With respect to the...
Dale says: "I would be quite gratified, if you also turn your speculation hunt onto your own publication's output." In fact, I do this with every article I...
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:17:24 -0000, "Richard Parker" ... I don't buy most of Dunbar's theories at all, especially the parts relating brain size to group size,...
... I never said that humans choosing a feed site showed no caution. in fact, I tried to make a very specific point that caution is a primary and initial human...
... Your newspaper do not regularly report interactions on the scale I was reporting nor do they report on how regularly they occur. Newspapers in general...
... Thanks, I have seen research to that effect, and have been on committees of a number of sizes that bear that out. ... What I envision is a time before...
Michael, My apologies for getting testy. I have been able to find very little research on capacity for cultural complexity related to density scale especially...
... a ... trouble ... place ... control ... are ... were ... continuing ... to ... I have to disagree. Chimpanzees form murderous groups. To some extent,...
... either. I very specifically said that the first test humans have of each other is for signals of hostile intent, which in fact very often precedes actual ...
... the ... telescope ... Its is gratifying for an amateur footler like me to elicit a response from a lurking genuinely professional linguist, but the larger...
John: I don't think there's much question that chimps form "murderous groups". OTOH, these groups may be somewhat "influenced" by people leaving food out for...
... from ... being ... would ... reason ... of ... Pauline, how could I ever accuse you of tying meat eating to male dominance? That happened a long time...
To clarify: There are two different reasons I can discern, for LB1 to have a greater mass of bone marrow: #1 being useful for hiding the fat during "lean"...
... Of course not! Those are group definitions of potential enemies. That goes far beyond hostility radar for interpersonal contact. It is mainly a group to...
... snip ... John, Most ancient stone tools were small enough to be carried in one hand, with about the weight of perhaps a little more than a baseball. Only ...
... Regardless of species LB1 is a human type where hidden fat would be unavailable to estrogen action and so inherantly inhibit female fertility cycling....
... Expanding this just a little, the wolves as predators did not identify the first humans as prey either. It is not just prey types that seemed to ignore...
... Most mainstream linguists prefer not to attach any sort of "decline/progress" judgement to a language, even though it might appear to be what's happening....
If we're looking at 'natural' human group sizes, then the military have more experience of putting together human groups, that work well, than any of us: ...
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:17:50 -0000, "Dale Hoogeveen" <no1son@...> wrote: [Most snipped - we both have our own intuition on this, based more on personal...
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:36:57 -0000, "Richard Parker" ... Not much, but one of the theories that Rodrigo debunks is that hominids were secondary or even...
Thanks, John - if nothing else*, our discussion has pointed me to Hauser Chomsky Fitch at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/hauser02science.pdf It's...
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