Tag: food
Save your children (1)
Children Won’t Say They Have Anxiety, They Say ‘My Stomach Hurts!’ Facebook blocked my comment on how this was linked to all pathology in “Celebrity…
Relatable not debatable (1)
Earlier today, I spoke with Charles. His superior use of analogies extended from food energy as information: “It’s like extra cheese on pizza,” to successful…
The eternal significance of microRNA biogenesis (2)
Quantum effects allow plants to turn sunlight into fuel via photosynthesis. The effects have been linked to human brain development. See: A New Spin on…
Darwin Day 2019 (3) #darwinday2019
Start over on #darwinday2019 with Thomas Hunt’s (1855) On the Influence of the Human Instinct in the Prevention and Cure of Disease, Chiefly in Reference…
Adaptive evolution: Genetic selection against some disorders
a model for adaptive evolution, for example, that is not nutrient chemical-dependent and pheromone-controlled?
Thinking about what we know (or not)
Most people tend to ignore the fact that it is food that makes us who we are and pheromones that tell others who and what we are
Increased chemosensory ability and eye regression: a “Just-So” fish story
Loss of eyes associated with increased chemosensory abilities leads to a hypothesis of increased tactile sensitivity for food choice and mate choice.
Non random adaptive evolution
Changes in food availability, food type, or the way you get food can trigger evolutionary mechanisms to deal with those changes. The result can be increased brain size and cognition, changes in locomotion and even social changes
Epigenetic effects underlie sexual preferences (duh, and food preferences)
Public release date: 11-Dec-2012 National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis ) Study finds epigenetics, not genetics, underlies homosexuality Excerpt: “…researchers from the Working Group…
The challenges of a Darwinian approach to anything
It’s been more than 2 decades since the work of Axel and Buck replaced the ridiculous misrepresentations of those who appear to have never once thought about olfaction for finding food in birds.