Behavior: The first response is RNA-mediated not genetically-determined
Diana Maria Petrosanu asked a question in an Evolutionary Psychology News discussion about Evolution’s Random Paths Lead to One Place. I’ve been very vocal in […]
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Odor preferences are ecological adaptations
Does Singld Out, a gene-based dating service, pass the sniff test? Excerpt: “The evolution of odour preference When we think about the evolutionary threats faced […]
The hormone-miRNA axis, life span, and sexual orientation
Instead of simply offering more evolutionary theory, we detailed the link from the sensory environment to sexual orientation (e.g., the epigenetic effects of pheromones on the gonadotropin releasing hormone neuronal system).
Random mutations theory and pervasive mosaic evolution (the body)
Natural Selection and Sexual Selection must concurrently occur, which makes them non-random processes not driven by random mutations.
Epigenetic effects underlie sexual preferences (duh, and food preferences)
Public release date: 11-Dec-2012 National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis ) Study finds epigenetics, not genetics, underlies homosexuality Excerpt: “…researchers from the Working Group […]
Playing with breasts (e.g, with a new THEORY of why only heterosexual men love them)
It is no fun to be ignored, but that seems to be a common problem for those who challenge theories, whether or not those theories make sense in the context of biological facts.
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of sexual orientation
the epigenetic effects of these modifications on sexual orientation and associated behaviors in a unicellular organism were known 16 years ago… why do they now appear to show up only in the behavior of the honeybee model organism?
Human pheromones and IQ via neurogenic and socio-cognitive niche construction
Natural selection “selects” for nutrient chemicals. Sexual selection “selects” for pheromones. There is nothing random about that. “Olfaction and odor receptors provide a clear evolutionary trail that can be followed from unicellular organisms to insects to humans.”
Cultural processes are biologically based
Ignoring the molecular biology common to all organisms from microbes to man makes it appear that biological and cultural processes operate somewhat independently across species — as if there were significant differences in the molecular biology of different species.
Human Pheromones in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology
The honeybee is a model organism for understanding the epigenetic link from food odors and social odors to neural networks of the mammalian brain, which ultimately determine human behavior.