What are your politics? (Translation: Doesn't evolutionary psychology have a crypto conservative political agenda?)

In the three and a half centuries since William Harvey proved that the purpose of the heart is to pump blood, physiologists have revealed the functional organization of the body in blinding detail. Their discoveries demonstrate beyond question that the structure of the body serves survival and reproduction. Further, there is near unanimity among biologists that this functional structure is a product of natural selection.

No! Evolutionary psychology is the study of the functional organization of the brain, and this organization must be pan-human. Because humans are a single species, everyone on the planet has essentially the same functional organization of both the body and the brain. Why? The functional properties of organisms, including the functional properties of the nervous system (like vision, smell, locomotion, etc.) arose by natural selection.

noted elsewhere in this FAQ, there are no fundamental differences between physiological adaptations and psychological adaptations. Male and female bodies are identical in most ways, but profoundly different in some. Male and female hearts are (I presume) essentially identical, but testicles are very different from ovaries. The same pattern is likely to be true of the brain.

Evolutionary psychology is attempting to elucidate the functional organization of the brain even though researchers currently cannot, with very few exceptions, directly study complex neural circuits. This is like attempting to discover the functions of the lungs, heart, etc., without being able to conduct dissections.

Yes and no. Definitely no if one is referring to behavioral genetics. All organisms, including humans, can be conceived as an integrated set of functional parts. Hearts, lungs, eyes, blood, bones, muscles, veins, kidneys, livers, skin, intestines, gonads, and the immune system all perform specific functions. Modern medicine is founded on this functional view of the body. In the parlance of evolutionary biology, these functional parts are called adaptations.

No! As explained above in the section on racism, the evolutionary psychology theoretical framework strongly suggests that all individuals possess essentially identical adaptations, cognitive or otherwise. However, social hierarchies appear to be ubiquitous in both human and non-human social groups.

Not much. Evolutionary psychology is a more recent term that has come to mean the use of sociobiological (evolutionary) thinking in trying to understand human behavior.

Yes and no. Although evolutionary psychology does adopt most of the theoretical framework of sociobiology, it is actually both more and less general. Evolutionary psychology is the study of animal nervous systems from an evolutionary perspective. As such, it includes numerous aspects of cognition that have nothing to do with sociality per se, such as vision, navigation, memory, toxin avoidance, foraging, etc.

It's porous, which means it holds bacteria; it can't be autoclaved, which means it can't be sterilized; aaaaaaaaand it gives off toxic gas. Add to that the ease with which it breaks and you've got yourself the reason some people hate it. Amy doesn't mind it in a healed piercing, as long as the person using it knows the potential problems. It is your body and we will not tell you no. . .generally.

Most often feelings of hate are based on ignorance, misunderstanding, and fear of the unknown. And it may not be so much "hate" as disapproval of certain conduct. Attitudes often change with education, and after meeting gay people and understanding halacha, most people will accept the fact that a person is gay. It may also help to remind them that Hillel said: Ve-al tadin et chavercha ad she-tagia li-mkomo (Pirke Avos 2:5) (Do not judge your fellow until you are in his place.

First get a job at a nursing home. Nursing homes have lots of senile old people too alzheimered out to rat on you. Note: we do not condone nor recommend torturing old people. Rather we prefer someone else to humanely slaughter them so we can eat them. Depending on the amount of hatred running through your veins you can try these fun options: The old laxative in the milk bit (just remember, you'll probably have to wipe that ass later unless you time it for shift change).

unlike other social networking sites, ifhy teams you up with "friends of your enemy". the more people you hate the more accurate and full your possible friends list becomes. this list is built up automatically with people who hate the same people you hate. check out the manage friends area to see all your possible friends or when browsing profiles if you see "add to friends" link on their profile you know they hate some of the same people you hate.

Computational complexity, bandwidth, delay, and picture buffer size are the four B-frame Pet Peeves. Computational complexity is increased since a some macroblock modes require averaging between two macroblocks. Worst case, memory bandwidth is increased an extra 16 MByte/s (601 rate) for this extra prediction. An extra picture buffer is needed to store the future prediction reference (bi-directionality).

No, we love Cakewalk™ products, and generally like the company. The company's handling of their discontinuation of the newsgroup made a bunch of us feel unwanted. This newsgroup is a Sonar user community.

I have thought about this a great deal actually, and I have come to the conclusion that people don't really fear flying itself, but that they have a number of other fears that are associated with flying such as the fear of heights or the fear of being trapped in a closed place. I think that for many people there is a fear of crashing and dying. For some people, I have discovered, that the fear of flying is actually tied to a fear of leaving home and leaving a familiar place.

Over the years, hundreds of thousands of people have been shown the techniques of Knowledge. Some people found it was not for them and moved on. Sadly, not all people are able to take responsibility for their own life choices. Remarkably, these detractors allegedly left the practice of Knowledge in the late 1970's /early 1980's but are still obsessed with Maharaji and the practice of Knowledge almost 30 years later.

Although their attacks against Maharaji, his students, and the organizations that promote his message are fanatical, outwardly these people appear quite ordinary. This contributes to their ability to dupe others, including the occasional media person. Only a few give their actual names when they post to their web-site, most maintaining various anonymous personae.

Sociologists and mental health experts have speculated about the reasons for Internet-based hate. Understanding the motives that lead to obsessive hate-mongering is difficult. Historically, most voices for peace have been targets of violent reactions. Gandhi and Rev. Martin Luther King were assassinated. Even Mother Teresa was attacked by a British journalist as a "self-serving egotist" engaged in money laundering.

Boy does it ever! It violates it everywhere. The second law of thermodynamics says that evolution can't happen, but biologists still say evolution happens.

It never ceases to amaze us when an otherwise "normal" person ignores the very real suffering of the thousands of victims of true hatred and intolerance on our list and accuses us of being a "hate site" merely because we memorialize the plight of victims and call for an end to Islamic terror.

You guys believe there is no God, but you can't prove that there isn't. So being an atheist obviously requires at least as much faith as being a Christian.

Bill is very knowledgeable about the world of video; I think he must spend half his life pouring over press releases, USENET posts and various rumour mill publications to get his information. However, Bill is a creature of the present. If CANON comes up with a great video camera, he will be the first to sing its praises. If there is then a problem with CANON's camera, he will immediately say that it's a piece of junk and CANON should be crucified for selling it.

The above mentioned plugins are broken crap and should be avoided. Nobody has volunteered to re-write those plugins, so any improvement in this situation seems quite unlikely. Whatever may be the case, do not ask us/complain about them. Using Gentoo? These are related to russian character set patch added by Gentoo packagers to the XMMS package they distribute. To solve the problem, please remove ALL the patches added and recompile XMMS. Or install a vanilla version from tarball.

The hurt that religions do results from the adherent's blind acceptance of fanciful stories and traditions. Most Atheists are vehemently opposed to all religions. It is an exercise in futility as well as being a notion steeped in ignorance, to blame the victim of any hoax. Atheism promotes that young people should not be indoctrinated into a particular monotheistic system. Children have no intellectual defence against such authorative adult methods.

The term "bot" is short for "robot". You can often come across these on IRC. A bot is a detached irc process which simulates another irc client. Some bots serve as repositories for files, or useful data, or conduct games. Dumb bots only do mode changes. Harmful bots fork clone copies of themselves or flood the irc network with garbage (clonebots/floodbots). These are almost universally hated. Most bots on IRC are a nuisance, even though their owners find their invention "cool".

Computational complexity, bandwidth, end-to-end delay, and picture buffer size are the four B-frame Pet Peeves. Computational complexity in the decoder is increased since some macroblock modes require averaging between two block predictions (macroblock_motion_forward==1 && macroblock_motion_backward==1). Worst case, memory bandwidth is increased an extra 15.