http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/ Human Ethology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:36:24 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20041 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20041 Experience Matters: Females Use Smell to Select Experienced Males for Paternal Care Nichola Fletcher1, Ellen J. Storey1, Magnus Johnson2, Donald J. Reish3, Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:36:09 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20040 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20040 Source: University of Haifa (news : web) http://www.physorg.com/news176550386.html What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker? November 4th, 2009 in Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:35:56 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20039 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20039 Source: The Royal Society http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/11/04/rspb.2009.1450.abstract?papetoc Lifetime reproductive effort in Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:35:55 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20038 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20038 Provided by CNRS http://www.physorg.com/print176566210.html Discovery of the oldest European marsupial November 4th, 2009 in Other Sciences / Archaeology & Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:35:45 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20037 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20037 Gift Aid If you are a UK taxpayer, additional donations to the Science and Religion Forum (though not membership fees) may be Gift Aided. I enclose a further Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:34:30 GMT Steve Moxon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20036 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20036 Hi Jay As I've explained, we'll have to disagree. Steve Moxon [author of the book, The Woman Racket: The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work, Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:32:57 GMT jimdehn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20035 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20035 Jay wrote: Because what we call "personality," which are different behavioral predispositions, is not under strong directional selection. If you think of the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:25:10 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20034 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20034 Helga: I am not sure what exactly you meant when you said that this system was "tweaked". To me, that sounds as it it was given a few pins and darts not found Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:24:24 GMT Steve Moxon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20033 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20033 Hi Chris, Jay But this is what most people get so wrong. Survival for humans could not have been that difficult. The problem was dealing with the intricacies Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:54:29 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20032 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20032 Steve Moxon: Hi Jay. As I said, it's perverse given the obvious very different context and the differences to the workings of a dominance hierarchy, to call Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:54:21 GMT Helga V http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20031 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20031 Hi Jay; It seems to me that you are not actually discussing the issue with me so much as trying to fit me with a label. In this instance, despite the fact Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:37 GMT Christopher Ryan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20030 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20030 Jay: Many of the sports figures and rock stars, who earn tens of millions of dollars a year, are not highly educated. Yet, they were able to rise to the top of Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:16:16 GMT jamesfrancisd http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20029 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20029 Hi James, I think I see what you mean. For example, within structuralism, consciousness can be the `object' of study, whereas to me, something like Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:17 GMT Steve Moxon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20028 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20028 Hi Jay As I said, it's perverse given the obvious very different context and the differences to the workings of a dominance hierarchy, to call maternal defence Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:17:17 GMT Jay R. Feierman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20027 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/human-ethology/message/20027 Steve Moxon: Hi Jay. Your responses re maternal defence are perverse. [And at one point you even mischaracterise it as "maternal deference".] Maternal