DS Wilson’s view of biophysically constrained life (4)
Summary: Clearly, DS Wilson did not get Dobzhansky’s joke about Creation that began some 10 billion years ago in the context of an event that […]
neuroendocrinology
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 […]
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 […]
Bamboozlement theory
September 26, 2014 Why Academics Stink at Writing Excerpt 1): “Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of […]
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 […]
Yeast Genetics Meeting
The “Yeast Genetics Meeting” starts 7/29/14 and presenters will establish the unequivocal fact that the epigenetic landscape is linked to the physical landscape of DNA […]
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 […]