Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:25 pm

Robert_S wrote:
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mistermack wrote:I don't get it.

Practically everything we buy is coming from China, and yet classes full of people are studying Human Behavioral Biology.
No wonder there is a trade deficit.

I wonder how many Chinese are studying Human Behavioral Biology?
Probably millions.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Tyrannical » Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:08 pm

Tyrannical, putting the Evil back in Evilution :hehe:
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by cronus » Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:14 pm

Eugenics by any other name would smell as sweet (or not) dependant on your perspective and political leaning. :coffee:
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Cormac » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:02 pm

mistermack wrote:
Robert_S wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
mistermack wrote:I don't get it.

Practically everything we buy is coming from China, and yet classes full of people are studying Human Behavioral Biology.
No wonder there is a trade deficit.

I wonder how many Chinese are studying Human Behavioral Biology?
Probably millions.
I don't see what you're on about mistermack?
Human behavioral biology? What's the fucking point?
How many actually go on to do useful work in that field? I'm on about the huge numbers of people doing useless degrees.
Having watched the first ten minutes, I already know that it will be pragmatically useful to me in working to improve coordination between people in work.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Tyrannical » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:08 pm

Scrumple wrote:Eugenics by any other name would smell as sweet (or not) dependant on your perspective and political leaning. :coffee:
What's the problem with eugenics? It was a widely accepted scientific field until Hitler ruined it. It fell out of favor not because it was thought wrong, but because it could be used for evil.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Robert_S » Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:30 pm

I can't remember which lecture it was, but he was talking about these two rat populations.

They had been bread, one set selected for being laid back, the other for being skittish. But one skeptical woman didn't believe there was a genetic component to the skittishness. In one experiment, she took the unborn rats, right after they had been born and swapped them between mothers. It turns out that they still had the traits they inherited from their genetic family.

In another experiment, the little buggers were switched shortly after they had been conceived. The rats of skittish parents were placed in the wombs of laid back mothers and vice versa. The rats had the same traits as the mother they spent time in the womb of. Pre nurns out that pre-nnatal environment plays a larger role in inherited traits than previously thought.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by FBM » Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:50 pm

Whoa. Now that's insteresting. I'd known that the mother's hormones influenced the developing fetus, but not to that extent.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Tyrannical » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:34 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

Interesting read on how the Russians domesticated the silver fox.
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:36 am

Do you think we might be able to domesticate the black man, T?
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by Tyrannical » Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:27 am

rEvolutionist wrote:Do you think we might be able to domesticate the black man, T?
Most definitely. All it should take is a eugenics backed sterilization program starting with the prison population and most severe welfare users. But something like that isn't our responsibility which is why I prefer an enforced back to Africa emigration program.
Or was this not a serious question :ask:
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Re: Lectures: Intro to Human Behavioral Biology

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:09 am

I'm always serious.
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