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  1. Mar 2022
    1. 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?

    1. 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.

    2. 2002)

      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.

  2. Jan 2019
  3. Sep 2018
    1. 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??

  4. Aug 2018
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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

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  5. Mar 2017
    1. 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

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    1. 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?

  6. Feb 2017
    1. 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.

    2. 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!"

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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.