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Re: Can Functions Be Inherited?

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:21:56 GMT

Jason: This is why I posted (twice) the counterargument to you that "structures" aren't inherited, only genetic information that reconstructs structures over

Re: Causes of Behavior

Jason — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:36:22 GMT

GS: I'm not sure a cognitivists would say that that is an example of "priming," but even if so, it is not the same as "stimulus control" because "stimulus

Re: Can Functions Be Inherited?

Jason — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:35:49 GMT

Jay R. Feierman: I accept that "inherited" can mean more than passed across generations by DNA. What is the mechanism for inheritance of one's social

Re: Mentalism

Glen Sizemore — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:34:26 GMT

... From: Jay R. Feierman Subject: Re: [human-ethology] Mentalism To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 12:11

Re: Can Functions Be Inherited?

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:45:10 GMT

James Kohl: Reproductive function is inherited to the extent that the gene, which codes for gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), is reliably consistent

Re: Can Functions Be Inherited?

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:44:57 GMT

James Kohl: In the context of reproductive function, the social environment includes conspecifics that signal reproductive fitness through sensory cues. This

Re: Can Functions Be Inherited?

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:44:34 GMT

James Kohl: It doesn't matter much to me what anyone thinks about pheromones and the reproductive function of fish raised in isolation (e.g., no social

Re: Example of religion being used to promote fidelity to a mate

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:44:20 GMT

James Bond (Michael Yu): First of all, what do you mean by "resources"? When I think of "resources" in the context of our discipline, I think of material

How Sexually Dimporphic Attraction to Visual Shapes are Acquired in

Jay R. Feierman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:35:21 GMT

James Francis Doyle: At what stages of development through the life course [does] gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) [have] has it's specific effects in

Re: Exalted Humans

Sonny Williams — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:34:53 GMT

Jay, Why is it "very doubtful that [the structures whose functions in humans are normative coercion] are the same structures that cause schooling behavior in

Re: Behavior, Functions, and Modules

Sonny Williams — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:33:32 GMT

Jay, I'm familiar with your criteria for demonstrating the usefulness of a theory, and I've objected to it in previous posts. Many useful scientists do not

Re: Behavior, Functions, and Modules

Sonny Williams — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:33:06 GMT

Give me a scalpel and I can seriously modify a host of human behaviors, or doesn't Phinias Gage ring a bell? Sonny Williams

Re: Behavior, Functions, and Modules

Simon Gadbois — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:58:36 GMT

... Simon Gadbois: O.k., then, if you take that step from the construct to identified brain areas (Ewer's work on toads), then I'll argue that you can do the

Re: Models of Perception and Behavior

Sonny Williams — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:55:38 GMT

Excellent comments, Jason. Moods and/or emotions are not as settled as Jay contends, and Immelmann and Beer's "A Dictionary of Ethology" contradicts his

Re: Causes of Behavior

Glen Sizemore — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:54:40 GMT

... From: Jason Subject: [human-ethology] Re: Causes of Behavior To: human-ethology@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 11:14 AM ...