The Third Evo Synthesis
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26.03.2012 08:38, Isa Kocher  : |
| recent reports indicate that human heterosexual male parents have drastically lowered testosterone after their mate gives birth. ... basically making the whole issue moot. no need to have low testosterone males when males across the board become low testosterone when a kid of theirs is born. AND they increase estrogen too becoming i guess mommy 2. |
23.11.2011 18:20, Ken Ranney from Peterborugh, Ontario  : |
| Readers might be interested in a paper I have co-authored: A Note on the Role of Chance in the Formation of Proteins and the Darwinist Theory of Evolution, at http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca /~ranney/darwin.pdf The paper calculates probabilities for the random generation of DNA necessary to produce well-known proteins, rather than calculating the probability of random arrangements of proteins. The latter, though common in the literature, is a false approach i.e. it does not conform with what is known about the synthesis of proteins. Ken |
| 03.10.2011 09:58, gert korthof: |
| Hello Alex, thanks for the recommendation. I wonder: was there a particular webpage or remark or whatever that triggered your advice? Gert Korthof |
| 03.10.2011 04:05, Alex Palazzo from Toronto : |
| Hi Gert, I highly suggest that you read Michael Lynch's book The Origins of Genome Architecture (2007). It covers how population genetics can be used to describe eukaryotic genome organization. |
| 03.09.2011 17:32, gert korthof: |
| Anton Veenstra (Dutch name!): i don't understand very much of your comment of 31.08.2011. Your comment of 01.09.2011: indeed animal behavioural scientists ignored and overlooked homsexual behaviour in animals. BB has pointed that out at length, and that is of great scientific value. You write "Sadly, some of your observations and extrapolations from BB's book to gay culture shows signs of this": please spefify WHICH conclusions, because i don't know which you mean. So I cannot reply to that. Your ancestors came from Holland i presume, so if you still have interest in the netherlands you would be pleased to know that our country is the first country in the world where homosexuals have the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals. Did you know that? Have a nice day, Gert. |
| 01.09.2011 02:40, Anton Veenstra from Sydney Australia : |
| Gert, I believe you read Bruce Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance but came to misguided conclusions. BB does not attck heterosexuality. He nots that otherwise aggressive hetero members of a species are untreatened by proximity to homosexual coupling, unlike in the human species. He remarks on a male from a bird species that presents with a bizarre mix of gender characteristics but successfully mates with a female of the species. BB's perspective is that we have not fathomed the purpose, if any, of the universe and that stressing some unprovable intent by a species to perpetuate itself may be misleading. I believe BB's initial position was to expose the misleadind and totally unscientific position of previous biologists, who observed genuine homosexual behaviour in the wild, and repressed it for various reasons, religious prejudice, fear of peer condemnation. We can only call it "social engineering" when scientists distort reality for their own reasons. For that reason I would strongly recommend that heterosexual male scientists thoroughly and scrupulously examine their own psyches for any latent prejudice, when they come to postulate theories about homosexuals. You have published links to work about "feminised" male homosexual brains. I can assure you that if you base your scientific work on observations through contemporary media you will be seriously misled. Sadly, some of your observations and extrapolations from BB's book to gay culture shows signs of this. In previous cultures, gay men married and raised families without difficulty. Given a choice between extreme societal prejudice and camouflaging themselves in conventional relationships, they would have resorted to the latter. It is difficult to sustain stereotypes of gay behaviour as a result. All the best, Anton Veenstra. |
| 31.08.2011 16:19, Anton Veenstra from Sydney Australia : |
| Mr Korthof, I was puzzled by your review of Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance, by your repetition of his "attacking heterosexuality", by your labelling rape and violence for instance among walruses as a "bad thing" your inverted commas. Your publishing of a review of Cochran's thesis, accompanied by REALLY HEARTFELT wishes that this theory in no way hurt homosexuals extends what is clearly an inability to relate to homosexual people, and frankly, a deep emotional insensitivity. To have a "scientist" postulate that your identity is invalid as it is caused by a virus is quite shocking. But it does not surprise me, given my experience of the frankly brute insensitivity of the hetero male mind, perhaps caused by a virus at birth, leaving the patient stunted, sadly, in its relations with other members of the human species. But I mean no offence to male heteros as clearly they are incapable of better. |
| 22.04.2011 18:38, Stefano Marcelli from Darfo Boario Terme - Italy : |
| Dear Gert, I thank you very much for your site that I found searching news about Lima de Faria. IMHO the problem of biologists is that - because of having been too much oppressed in the past by all sort of religions, priests and creationism - they don't want to hear to talk about "invisible" any more. But the greatest forces the complex living beings move against and toward are of physical nature: gravity and sunlight. My evolution from a MD to a "monstrous" :-) kind of evo-devo biologist is due to these observations: http://tinyurl.com/4pkeaf4 Best regards, Stefano |
| 01.03.2011 04:49, Keith Allpress: |
| Hi Gert In regard randomness - I think you are simply talking about operations, eg rotation, reflection, folding and other algebraic operations that transform hands into other hands, plus the idea of self-symmetry, transforms that can operate within a pattern. As a programmer I learn to look for behaviours, this is what distinguishes patterns into classes of behaviour. The properties of the pattern determine how the steps needed to encode the pattern - more intrinsically ordered patterns should have algorithmic procedures to synthesise them, less ordered patterns will be less algorithmic. Also evolution might favour patterns that had fewer synthetic steps. Keith |
| 25.11.2010 09:13, gert korthof: |
| Hi Todd, thanks! I know your name from the countless Amazonreviews! We share interest in a lot of subjects, and as far as I can see, you are reviewing books as long as I do. Success with everything! Gert |
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