behavioral associations
foraging together or separately
behavioral associations
foraging together or separately
our understanding of the role of behavior
I don't understand how this can help with understanding the role of behavior.
Social network analysis can be a powerful approach for testing how phenotypic traits contribute to behavioral assortment and genetic exchange between species and populations. We highlight the complex and contrasting ways that traits structure the fine-scale social environment within a natural admixed population; these complex patterns of phenotypic assortment would be intractable to assess using traditional methods. Network analyses provide a unified framework in which to consider the influence of multiple phenotypic traits, male-male interactions, and pair-bonding behaviors on the opportunity for mating in wild populations.
No mention of quails in the conclusion?
Schmidt et al., 2014
Abstract: De Valois and De Valois [Vis. Res.33, 1053 (1993)] showed that to explain hue appearance, S-cone signals have to be combined with M versus L opponent signals in two different ways to produce red-green and yellow-blue axes, respectively. Recently, it has been shown that color appearance is normal for individuals with genetic mutations that block S-cone input to blue-ON ganglion cells. This is inconsistent with the De Valois hypothesis in which S-opponent konio-geniculate signals are combined with L-M signals at a third processing stage in cortex. Instead, here we show that color appearance, including individual differences never explained before, are predicted by a model in which S-cone signals are combined with L versus M signals in the outer retina.
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In this paper, they had 4 participants wear tinted contacts for 8-12 hours a day for between 10 and 24 days. (or stayed in a room with filters over the lights for 4 hours, or goggles for 4 hours, there was a lot variation.) They measured the appearance of unique yellow before and after the trials.
They found that if you change the gain of the L-M ratio you can change the "null point" where yellow is. If the gain is plastic, you can move the sensation of yellow.
insects
Insects are a subset of arthropods.
We found that following stimulus cessation, direction-selective neurons tuned to the direction of the CS displayed strong habituation in the optic tectum but not in the retina.
How did you determine which neurons were directionally selective??
SNP
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
I-NGF
What does the I stand for in I-NGF?
Because
How did they block the endosome from entering the cell body? Ddid they relegate it to the axon or did they stop it from re-uptaking?
ex vivo sciatic nerve preparation
Do you guys have a better explanation for "ex vivo" then just "tissue removed from an organism"
early endosomes
What makes an endosome early?
trophic transfer
So even though the mutation is good for the fish, It is especially bad for predators of fish, who do not have the tolerance, but have a poisoned population to consume.
ncestral environmen
But they already demonstrated above that the embryos showed no difference in gene expression until the polllutants were administered. Then they expressed different genes. Wouldnt this mean that, in early development at least, that they are fine in the ancesteral enironment as well.
specific compounds tested
So the compounds are more similar to pesticides then they let on in the beginning. Different one do effect the same pathways like pesticides
"Who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?" <-eg. Anthroprocentric
Anthropomorphic= helpful Anthropocentric= blinding
the man's spontaneous abandon at the moment of climax"
What? I have never heard that before.
what with all this psychological complexity, associations, and so forth-undercuts the familiar claim that the only alternative to sex with love is "sheer lust."
Valid
non-lovers and can claim no superiority for their sex act because they also happen to love each other.
Expression of romantic love?
they have suppressed the truth that God has implanted within their minds
Ha, as a Calvinist shouldn't it be that God has given them the desire to suppress the truth that God has implanted within their minds?
encounter the Creator
The mantra of the Sunday Assembly (an a-theistic church) is Live Better. Help Often. Wonder More. They encourage seeking out these wonder-filled experiences, but not everyone takes a wonder filled experience as impetus to believe in God. I can wonder at the world and its intricacy, be aware of how small and insignificant I am, and find the universe AMAZING without it having a deity.
such as the problem of evil or the alleged threat of science to religion
See, this reminds me of psychics saying thing like: "You have to believe in my powers for them to work!"
Rational people, and this is a fact that we must live with, rationally disagree.
Amen! ;)
f belief in God is more like belief in other persons than belief in atoms, then the trust that is appropriate to persons will be appropriate to God.
However, evidence of God is not like evidence of other people. We can have conversations with other people, can see other people. In contrast, all must be supposed with a divine entity.
a sense of the divine
In the book "Born Believers", by Justin L. Barret he addresses this concept and explains why, scientifically, such a sense should arise in human beings.
The demand for evidence is an imperialistic attempt to make philosophers out of people who have no need to become philosophers
True!
There is a limit to the things that human beings can prove.
Something pressed home to me in my science classes is that "Science can't prove anything." Everything we think we know can be uprooted by new evidence.
Is it reasonable to believe that God has created us with a cognitive faculty which produces belief in God without evidence or argument?
It is possible to start with belief based on such a foundation. There are many things that cannot be proven or known. But if evidence comes a long with does bring the unknowable into the knowable, then it is only right to re-evaluate such a foundation.