How Hardwired Is Human Behavior? New fields of science don’t emerge in a flash, and evolutionary psychology—sometimes called modern Darwinism—is no exception. But over the past several years, evolutionary psychology as a discipline has gathered both momentum and respect. A convergence of research and discoveries in genetics, neuropsychology, and paleobiology, among other sciences, evolutionary psychology holds that although human beings today inhabit a thoroughly modern world of space exploration and virtual realities, they do so with the ingrained mentality of Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Homo sapiens emerged on the Savannah Plain some 200,000 years ago, yet according to evolutionary psychology, people today still seek those traits that made survival possible then: an instinct to fight furiously when threatened, for instance, and a drive to trade information and share secrets. Human beings are, in other words, hardwired. You can take the person out of the Stone Age, not the Stone Age out of the person. Gossip.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BRAIN OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS?: AN INVESTIGATION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF NEUROPATHOLOGY UCLACourses History 2D: Science, Magic, and Religion, Lecture 1, UCLA 118,378 views 5 years ago Lecture Title: "Course Introduction" March 31st, 2009 Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA History 2D: Science, Magic, and Religion classes in this series: See more courses from UCLA: See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: Show less
Chapter 7: Human Society Chapter 7: HUMAN SOCIETY As a species, we are social beings who live out our lives in the company of other humans. We organize ourselves into various kinds of social groupings, such as nomadic bands, villages, cities, and countries, in which we work, trade, play, reproduce, and interact in many other ways. Insight into human behavior comes from many sources. This chapter covers recommendations about human society in terms of individual and group behavior, social organizations, and the processes of social change. The chapter describes seven key aspects of human society: cultural effects on human behavior, the organization and behavior of groups, the processes of social change, social trade-offs, forms of political and economic organization, mechanisms for resolving conflict among groups and individuals, and national and international social systems. Human behavior is affected both by genetic inheritance and by experience. Technology has long played a major role in human behavior.
scientists solve secret of nerve cells marking a form of schizophrenia The neurons generated from every 22q11DS carrier in the study demonstrated a consistently less-than-normal voltage difference between the inner-facing and outer-facing sides of the cell membranes when the cells weren’t firing. A quiescent neuron’s cross-membrane voltage difference is called its resting membrane potential; it keeps the neuron poised to fire while preventing it from firing at random. Cortical neurons derived from people with 22q11DS were more excitable, the study found. The researchers also studied a gene called DGCR8, which has been suspected of being tied to schizophrenia. Knocking down DGCR8’s activity levels in the control neurons reproduced the weakened resting membrane potential and associated malfunctions seen in the 22q11DS neurons. “DGCR8 is probably the main player in the cellular defects we observed,” Pasca said. “We can’t test hallucinations in a dish,” Pasca said. There are undoubtedly many types of schizophrenia, he said.
Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook for Download Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences | Simply Psychology Linguistic Intelligence is a part of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory that deals with sensitivity to the spoken and written language, ability to learn languages, and capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. Linguistic intelligence involves the ability to use language masterfully to express oneself rhetorically or poetically. It includes the ability to manipulate syntax, structure, semantics, and phonology of language. People with linguistic intelligence, such as William Shakespeare and Oprah Winfrey, have the ability to analyze information and create products involving oral and written language, such as speeches, books, and memos. Potential Career Choices Careers you could dominate with your linguistic intelligence: LawyerSpeaker / HostAuthorJournalistCurator Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (number/reasoning smart) Logical-mathematical intelligence involves the ability to use logic, abstractions, reasoning, and critical thinking to solve problems. Support
Cell types underlying schizophrenia identified | UCL News The cell types underlying schizophrenia have been identified in a genetic study that looked for commonalities among the different genes already linked to the condition, find researchers at UCL, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and University of North Carolina (USA). The study, published today in Nature Genetics, offers a roadmap for the development of new therapies to target the condition. "Understanding which cell types are affected in a disease is of critical importance for developing new medicines to improve their treatment. If we do not know what causes a disorder we cannot study how to treat it," said co-lead author Dr Nathan Skene (UCL Institute of Neurology and Karolinska Institutet). Genetic studies have linked hundreds of genes to schizophrenia, each contributing a small part to the risk of developing the disease. "This study marks a transition in how we can use large genetic studies to understand the biology of disease. Links Image Source Karolinska Institutet Media contact Chris Lane
Introduction to Memetics: Symnoesis, Nouosis, and the Metanoetic | MasterSelf I was really tempted to call this article “Intro to Memes for Mind-Controlling Teens,” but we’ll have to save the mind control for the chapter about Memetic Engineering. Today, however, we’re going to be just scratching the surface in this introduction to Memetics, the article I promised in Triple Meta. For those who are unfamiliar, a meme (pronounced meem, not me-me) is essentially a unit of idea. Richard Dawkins proposed the idea in his book “The Selfish Gene,” as an informational equivalent to a gene (hence the pronunciation). Now, I don’t much care for Dawkins, and I haven’t finished reading The Selfish Gene yet, so we’re going to leave him at the door. Ideas are, in a sense, in a sort of dependent state of symbiosis with people. These ideas obviously require you to exist for them to exist- they aren’t some supernatural, mystic thing. As I said earlier, a meme is a singular unit of idea. Because the memetic does not live, the dynamics are a bit different. Like this: Like Loading...