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09/01/2008
David Sloan Wilson: EvoS: Coming Soon to a College Near You (HuffingtonPost)
A funny thing happened to evolutionary theory on its way to transforming the study of life--the study of humanity got left out. Even though it...
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08/14/2008
Bumblebees Choose Whether To Search For Food According To How Stocked Their Nests Are (Medical News Today)
When bumblebees return to the nest from a successful foraging mission, they produce a pheromone which encourages their nest mates to also go out and find food. Scientists had originally thought that these pheromones elicited a standard response from all bees.
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08/13/2008
Smells Like Bees' Spirit: Response To Pheromone Changes According To Situation (Science Daily)
When bumblebees return to the nest from a successful foraging mission, they produce a pheromone which encourages their nest mates to also go out and find food. Scientists had originally thought that these pheromones elicited a standard response from all bees. But new research from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences has shown that bees' response to the pheromone changes ...
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08/13/2008
Smells like bees' spirit (PhysOrg)
Bumblebees choose whether to search for food according to how stocked their nests are, say scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
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08/13/2008
Hooting owls reveal motives of the dawn chorus (New Scientist)
Male owls impress females at dusk by singing on an empty stomach. Does that solve the mystery of why songbirds sing at dawn?
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08/12/2008
Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris, John Updike among high-profile authors with Northeast Ohio gigs this Fall (The Plain Dealer)
Falling for a stranger is embarrassing. Bibliophiles know the ache well - finding a voice on the page that works on us like a tuning fork, but is disembodied. Now readers have a chance to redress that awkward imbalance - at least partly - by showing up in the same room as their A-list muses.
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08/09/2008
New Releases (Boston Globe)
Just too smart for its own good You can pretty much guess from the title of "Smart People" (2008) what it is that you're in for: either an ironically lowbrow comedy, or an ironic commentary on intellectuals' occasional tendency to behave stupidly. Director Noam Murro and former MIT teacher-turned-writer Mark Jude Poirier have made the latter. As Poirier sums up ...
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| About.com - Konrad Lorenz - Short biography of Lorenz focuses on his research into innate animal behavior and his book Against Sociobiology - Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology.Animal behavior and sociobiology courses - Research and teaching in animal and human behavior by Dr. Paul J. Watson, University of New Mexico and Flathead Lake Biological, Montana. Field courses, graduate and independent study student supervision, and workshops.Archive site for Kenan Malik - Essays, papers, lectures and reviews on Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, race, philosophy and history. Also extracts from Kenan Malik's books 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?'.Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Tables of contents and article abstracts from this Springer-Verlag journal. Complete article texts are available in PDF format to print subscribers.Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Oxford - Research group studying animal learning, memory, and decision-making, using experimental psychology and evolutionary biology as tools. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.CogPrints: Sociobiology - Original scientific papers on the subject.Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence - Chapter one of the book by Richard Wrangham and Dale Petersen.Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health by John T. Manning - Michael Mills examines the claim that digit ratio allows us infer whether an individual is likely to have homosexual inclinations, be highly fertile, may eventually suffer from a heart attack or breast cancer, have musical aptitude or sporting prowess, and a surprisingly long list of other characteristics.Exorcising Sociobiology - Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology.Great Ideas in Personality - Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology - Includes links to research papers, web sites, and other reference sources.History of Sociobiology - A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.Human Genetics for the Social Sciences - Text, figures, and learning exercises in human behavioral geneticsThe Purpose of Life - The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology.Sociobiology - Explains major concepts of Sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Imprinting, Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Dominance Hierarchies. Contrasts the roles of Sociobiology and Culture.Sociobiology: Human Behavior and Evolution - A useful bibliography.Connotea: Sociobiology - Offers links to news and journal articles. [RSS]
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