Refusing to integrate neuroendocrinology and ethology
Q&A: Karl Grammer Excerpt: We and others have identified eight pillars of beauty: youthfulness, symmetry, averageness, sex-hormone markers, body odour, motion, skin complexion and hair […]
ethology
Ending twenty years of debate?
The smelling of Hedione results in sex-differentiated human brain activity Excerpt: “Hedione exhibited significantly enhanced activation in limbic areas (amygdala, hippocampus) and elicited a sex-differentiated […]
Odors and classically conditioned behavior
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2015 — Is there such a thing as love at first smell? There are hundreds of spray-on pheromone products that claim to […]
2014 and 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine
2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine is Awarded for Discovery of Brain’s ‘Inner GPS’ Excerpt: “… gray lines show the path followed by a rat as […]
Did parental love evolve separately in birds and mammals?
EDUCATION: SEXUALITY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES Excerpt: Romantic (erotic) love, an important component of human reproductive and sexual behavior, has its origins in parenting […]
Did our adapted mind evolve?
What is currently know about neuroendocrine regulation clearly links ecological variation to ecological adaptations manifested in morphological and behavioral phenotypes via RNA-mediated events without the […]
RNA-directed DNA methylation and RNA-mediated events
Many colleagues and most of my antagonists seem to be unwilling to accept the fact that RNA-directed DNA methylation links the epigenetic landscape to the […]
Non-evolutionary facts predict ovulatory shifts
Round 2: Ovulatory Cycles and Shifting Preferences Excerpt: “…ovulatory shifts are intriguing because they represent an original prediction of evolutionary theory, but are not predicted […]
ISHE: Two New Trustees
The election for two International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) Trustee positions ended with a welcome to newly elected trustees: Jan Havlicek and Nancy Segal More on […]
Another powerful refutation of mutation-initiated natural selection
Brain regions thought to be uniquely human share many similarities with monkeys Date: January 28, 2014 Summary: New research suggests a surprising degree of similarity in […]