Search The Directory The Web for Home > Science > Biology > Sociobiology > Evolutionary Psychology > Publications > Articles New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   "The Mind as the Software of the Brain" by Ned Block - Cognitive scientists often say that the mind is the software of the brain. This chapter is about what this claim means.   A Host with Infectious Ideas - Paul W. Ewald argues that most cancers, heart disease and other chronic ills stem from infections. If correct, his theory will change the course of medicine.   A bottom-up approach with a clear view of the top - Online paper by G. F. Miller and P. M. Todd.   A short history of stature - Woe unto the shorter people, for the taller the man, the more girlfriends he had. Richard Wiseman reports.   Adaptive regulation of neuronal excitability by a voltage- independent potassium conductance - Investigations of a neurotransmitter receptor required for 'background' neuronal inhibition in mice show the importance of such inhibition in keeping neuronal excitability under control.   Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum - D. discoideum is highly attractive as a model system for social evolution.   An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Eating Disorders - Abed, Riadh T (1998) The sexual competition hypothesis for eating disorders. British Journal of Medical Psychology 71(4):525-547.   An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Abed, Riadh T and de Pauw, Karel W (1999) An Evolutionary Hypothesis for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychological Immune System?. Behavioural Neurology 11:245-250.   An altitude problem - People in Tibet and the Andes have evolved different strategies of coping with altitude.   An evolutionary approach to the analysis, assessment and treatment of behaviour problems in companion animals - These pages describe research on behaviour undertaken by staff at the School of Agriculture.   An investigation of agency - The uniquely human ability to adopt someone else's viewpoint is now better understood - Jean Decety and colleagues have shown that when we imagine ourselves executing an action, the principal brain region that comes into play is the premotor cortex.   Ancestors - Meave Leakey discusses her team's recent skull find suggesting a new human ancestor.   And Darwin created us all... - As two of the world's great Darwinists prepare to debate whether science is killing the soul, Tim Radford asks if natural selection is the key to life, the universe, and everything.   Animal Soul - A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy'. N.Y.: Macmillan and London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967, Vol. 1, pp. 122-27.   Animal cognition and animal minds - A paper by Colin Allen.   Art and Sexual Selection - Philosophy and Literature 24:2 - A paper by polymath Denis Dutton.   Assault on Evolution - Larry Arnhart on the activities of "intelligent design theorists".   Association of Ideas - This essay appeared in Philip P. Wiener, ed., 'Dictionary of the History of Ideas'. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 111-18.   Back to Stone Age sex - Rape is a 'natural' act, according to a new book causing uproar in the US. Its authors are Evolutionary Psychologists, a group that takes Darwin to extremes. Critics accuse them of peddling 'scientific porn' and having a 'Flintstonian' approach to sexuality. But their influence is growing fast, says Dave Hill.   Bees and minds - Honeybees can conceptualize "sameness" and "difference." Researchers say honeybees may serve as a good model system for determining how nervous systems learn concepts.     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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