I just received a note from someone asking about adaptationist discussions of the Bible as literature and about discussions of sibling rivalry. I couldn't...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Sep 7, 2005 2:19 pm
I mentioned having drafted a survey of adaptationist literary studies. There is final section on "Directions for Further Research," and I'll copy that here: ...
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Mike Tintner
andarot
Sep 9, 2005 9:17 pm
[just testing] I came across this in a philosophical paper: "Charles Darwin presented a similar type explanation in his notebooks: The general delusion about...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 10, 2005 3:31 am
So welcome one and all to the new list! Still has that new list smell to it. By and large things should work the same as they did before. Again, the main...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 12, 2005 11:18 pm
I’m working on course proposals for fellowship applications and was trying to come up with a list of core texts for a course on adaptationist literary...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Sep 13, 2005 2:26 am
That's a good list. Here are just a few other specific items that might be good for these purposes: Flinn, Mark, and Ward, Carol. "Ontogeny and the Evolution...
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Jeff Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 13, 2005 2:33 am
Tom--I suppose Buss's new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology could count as a primer. JT ... From: Tom Dolack To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
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Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)
bdbvvn
Sep 13, 2005 3:19 am
I am thousands of miles from my files, but I would recommend Dissanayake, Art and Intimacy (2000) over her Homo Aestheticus and my own Boyd, Literature and...
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horvathon@...
horvathon
Sep 13, 2005 3:32 am
Sounds like a great class. I'd throw in Barash, David and Nanelle Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries. In a message dated 9/12/05 7:21:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,...
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Andrew Court
andrewjcourt
Sep 13, 2005 10:07 am
<snip> Hope everyone's fall is starting smoothly. </snip> Hey! What about us Southern Hemisphereans?! It's *spring* here. And I thought this was going to be an...
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John Orbell
paunuist41
Sep 14, 2005 8:20 pm
I'd certainly add Geoffrey Miller's admirable (in my view) The Mating Mind....a sexual selection argument about the origin of our peculiarly artistic brains......
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Jeff Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 15, 2005 1:43 am
Should be a very good aurora australis show tonight! (Don't fall off while looking up) JT ... From: Andrew Court To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 16, 2005 5:02 pm
... From: owner-cfp@... [mailto:owner-cfp@...] On Behalf Of gew Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 5:02 PM To:...
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Gerry Reinhart-Waller
gerryreinhar...
Sep 17, 2005 2:40 am
In "The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature," Geoffrey Miller suggests that the human mind evolved, much like the elaborate...
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Alice Andrews
smilla2001
Sep 19, 2005 11:53 am
Dear biopoets, Just wanted to let y'all know that biopoet list member Tori Alexander had an impressive conference in NYC this past weekend with a bunch of...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 19, 2005 5:41 pm
Thanks, Alice. Any chance we can get some of those posted or made available? Tom ... From: biopoet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biopoet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf ...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Sep 19, 2005 7:13 pm
... Yes, Tori is to be congratulated for a terrific colloquy, one of the best I've attended. ... Ah, that explains it! Hope you are feeling better. Tim & Jason...
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Alice Andrews
smilla2001
Sep 20, 2005 12:12 pm
... Yes, Tori is to be congratulated for a terrific colloquy, one of the best I've attended. -Indeed! ... Ah, that explains it! Hope you are feeling better. ...
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Alice Andrews
smilla2001
Sep 20, 2005 12:20 pm
... Hi Tom, I think Tori posted this earlier, and I'm not sure this is what you're looking for exactly, but here are the Dactyl colloquy participants and their...
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Jeff Turpin
jpturpin1
Sep 21, 2005 1:57 pm
I'm working up a hypthesis about the generation of counter-hegemonic groups or individuals by the hegemony itself, and need some leads from biology and EP....
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Sep 21, 2005 1:59 pm
I was at a conference over the weekend where a sociologist, Eugene Halton, made a remark about the skill involved in tracking it seems that he¹s known some...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Sep 21, 2005 2:54 pm
Jeff, You might want to look at a couple of articles in Buss's Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, chapter 20, Tooby and Cosmides, "Neuorcognitive Adaptations...
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horvathon@...
horvathon
Sep 22, 2005 8:02 am
Bill-- Thanks for your words of support for our project, and the references. We appreciated the lively dialogue that ensued at the colloquy both during the Q&A...
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horvathon@...
horvathon
Sep 22, 2005 8:15 am
I am currently reading Hugh Brody's masterful Maps and Dreams (1982) regarding his experiences with Athapaskans. He makes some observations which are...
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Mike Tintner
andarot
Sep 22, 2005 6:08 pm
Bill/Tim, Just a hunch to offer here which occurred to me reading Bill - I doubt whether sophisticated communal hunting would have developed with just...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Sep 23, 2005 4:24 pm
... Tim, I¹ve discussed Hobson¹s work in my book, and juxtaposed it with speculations by Jak Panksepp on the evolutionary origins of dreaming (see below). ...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 24, 2005 5:35 pm
Dear All, Thanks everyone who helped make the Dactyl colloquy a success. Copies of abstracts / papers are available at ...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Sep 27, 2005 8:35 pm
Hi, Perhaps this conference is of interest to some list members: http://www.slsa.nl <http://www.slsa.nl/> - click "Streams" to get an overview of the themes...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Oct 5, 2005 3:03 am
If you haven't seen it already, likely of interest to the group: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18363...
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jpturpin1
Oct 5, 2005 6:40 am
Todos--I've been invited to propose a panel to next year's American Literature Association meetings in San Francisco, end of May, 2006. The panel (or round...
