http://netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/evolution?feed=rss&pg=1 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "evolution" on Netvouz http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2007/12/astrosociobiology-article-on-wikipedia.html Astrosociobiology Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever b emmineb Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:31 GMT http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?a=f The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network. emmineb Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT http://web.archive.org/web/20061209232530/www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sfseti/contents.html # Introduction # The world in a grain of sand or through the dish of a radiotelescope? # Anaximander and Epicurus: the boundless universe and plurality of worlds # Extraterrestrials?: Lucretius, Bruno, Fontenelle, Huygens and Voltaire # Science Fiction: H.G. Wells and other modern writers # The nature and origin of life on earth # The elements of life # Minor and trace elements # Molecules, monomers and polymers # The ability to reproduce: DNA and the genetic code emmineb Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:37:18 GMT http://www.ointres.se/udes.htm UDES XX20 emmineb Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:40:25 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5090&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ex=1327640400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. [...] add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat. emmineb Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:19:32 GMT http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:aML2dDK1xk0J:www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond.pdf+%22The+Worst+Mistake+in+the+History+of+the+Human+Race%22+Jared+Diamond&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming? Until recently, archaeologists had to resort to indirect tests, whose results (surprisingly) failed to support the progressivist view. Here's one example of an indirect test: Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so- called primitive people, like the Kalahari Bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only twelve to nineteen hours for one group emmineb Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:51:37 GMT http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982/page/1?&print=yes If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say "Where is the toilet, please?" That's the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of planet Earth, according to Ethnologue.com. If you want to be the complete polyglot programmer, you also have quite a challenge ahead of you, learning all the ways to say: printf("hello, world\n") ; emmineb Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:26:32 GMT https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample. emmineb Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:35:15 GMT http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs00000565-00/bbs.dunbar.html Keywords Neocortical size, group size, humans, language, Macchiavellian Intelligence Abstract Group size is a function of relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. Extrapolation from this regression equation yields a predicted group size for modern humans very similar to that of certain hunter-gatherer and traditional horticulturalist societies. Groups of similar size are also found in other large-scale forms of contemporary and historical society. Among primates, the cohesion of groups is maintained by social grooming; the time devoted to social grooming is linearly related to group size among the Old World monkeys and apes. To maintain the stability of the large groups characteristic of humans by grooming alone would place intolerable demands on t emmineb Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:13:10 GMT http://indi.ca/2004/05/google-becomes-conscious-google-as-artificial-intelligence/ The way things are going, I think Google will be the first AI. That is, I think Google will become conscious. As a note, if I can have a conversation with something, I’ll consider it conscious. That’s the Turing Test for intelligence. Right now Google fails miserably. For example, I entered the terms Jesus will return and got: jesus will return to Kings Associated Press July End did did Nature build the worlds largest Sex personals site! I suppose nature can’t explain everything. I got an earlier response which was more relevant - it asked if Nature build the body and emotion, and said the brain was the most important invention … then it went on to mention the Quran and The Prophet by K emmineb Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:02:53 GMT