Helen Fisher: Love is an addiction
In the Brain, Romantic Love Is Basically an Addiction By Helen Fisher | February 13, 2015 11:43 am Excerpt 1) Scientists have now shown that […]
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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 […]
New technique used in report of atomic-level ecological adaptations
Archaerhodopsin variants with enhanced voltage-sensitive fluorescence in mammalian and Caenorhabditis elegans neurons Directed evolution of a far-red fluorescent rhodopsin reported as: New technique uses a […]
Is the problem an internet echo or Feierman’s ethics?
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid. It is found in cold water fatty fish… On 9/19/13, I posted here and to the evolutionary […]
Insect homology and diversity attributed to mutations
Ancient homology underlies adaptive mimetic diversity across butterflies Excerpt: “Surprisingly, our results suggest that modulation of this conserved developmental gene has occurred in tandem between […]
Religion will not vanish; Creationism will flourish
Will religion vanish or will Creationism flourish? Jay R. Feierman, the moderator of the ISHE’s human ethology group, has finally allowed me to respond to […]
Creation of new species
1. “Genetically altered mice are a powerful experimental tool, but the extent to which recent positive selection in humans acts on pathways and amino-acid residues […]
Pulses of olfactory/pheromonal input
Signal and noise: Spike correlations in the olfactory system by John Hewitt Excerpt: “The olfactory system is not so much a hard-wired telephone network where […]
Are pheromones responsible for human body odour assessment?
Can You Smell Yourself? by Sarah C. P. Williams on 22 January 2013, 5:10 PM Excerpt: “Other molecules the human body produces could also influence […]
Evolved development of olfactory systems
how much longer it will be until the “bird watchers” realize that the molecular mechanisms of how olfactory/pheromonal input epigenetically effects adaptively evolved behaviors are the same in species from microbes to man, and species of birds are included.