http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/ Biopoetics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:04 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/585 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/585 David Sloan Wilson's now got a blog on which he's been discussing evolution. Mostly he's been discussion four decades of disputation over group selection. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:23:18 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/584 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/584 Hello again, After sending out the updated list of books relevant to people with evolutionary interests, I collected a few more. I've added them to my own Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:21:05 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/583 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/583 Dear Potential Contributors to the special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture: Many thanks to all of you who sent in notes about other books worthy of Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:50:34 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/582 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/582 I've just posted a longish blog entry in which I indicate what I learned from Claude Levi-Strauss about how stories work. Best, Bill Benzon Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:08:25 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/581 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/581 Hello, Judith Saunders gave me a good suggestion for the special evolutionary issue of Politics and Culture. She suggested that I list some recent and Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:26:34 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/580 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/580 Hello again, I've agreed to be guest editor for a special issue of the online journal Politics and Culture devoted to the topic: "Bioculture: Evolutionary Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:22:16 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/579 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/579 Irving Massey has just published a book that looks most interesting. You can find the TOC, preface, and first chapter here: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:09:32 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/578 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/578 Hi Everybody, Michael Ryan and Amitava Kumar co-edit an online journal, Politics and Culture: http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/index2.cfm. They Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:05:53 GMT William Benzon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/577 Keith -- FYI -- BB http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?hpw Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:27 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/576 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/576 Thanks, Maya. Yes, I mean "regulate" in just the way you do: "mitigate, stimulate, control, augment and synthesize the body's more immediate thoughts and Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:07:10 GMT maya lessov http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/575 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/575 Joe, I really like the first two paragraphs below. The first two long paragraphs. I didn't quite think of the imaginative functions as there to regulate Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:36:00 GMT Jeff P. Turpin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/574 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/574 Tim--The longer I view Joe's "adaptive functions" claim, the more seductive it becomes, if you include what, how, and why in that claim. But I think your two Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:42 GMT Tim Horvath http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/573 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/573 Joe and others, Perhaps I spoke sloppily, as that's precisely the sort of panning out I was referring to, where an author adduces various explanations and Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:25:16 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/572 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/572 Is the Wilson/Carroll argument that humans no longer have instincts, or that we no longer rely on them at all, or that we no longer rely on them exclusively? Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:08:22 GMT Carroll, Joseph C. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/571 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biopoet/message/571 I'll copy below the paragraphs that follow the quick summary of the various adaptive functions people have suggested. This is from an article on "agonistic