Wednesday 28 November 2012

PRIMATE, BOSS, DOMINANCE AND DELAYED EMAIL REPLY

//////////////////////Emotions and motivations (are) hierarchically ordered in the brain. Fear can overcome joy, for example. Jealousy can stifle tenderness…But in this pecking order of basic and complex emotions, background feelings and powerful drives, romantic love holds a special place: close to the zenith, the pinnacle, the top. Romantic love can dominate the drive to eat and sleep. It can stifle fear, anger, or disgust. It can override one’s sense of duty to family or friends. It can even triumph over the will to live. As Keats said, ‘I could die for you.’ ” (Helen Fisher 2004: 97-8)



/////////////////speculating on pair-bonds in early hominin evolution 3.5 million years ago, Helen Fisher wrote that “I don’t see why these primordial pair-bonds needed to be permanent” (2004: 132).


/////////////////HGLBT individuals can fall in love just as deeply as any heterosexual couple interested in procreation. Jesse Bering has written eloquently about this.


//////////////////////FOR ANIMALS, BEST CURRENCY IS FITNESS


////////////////////Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.-150


///////////////////////FAIRNESS TEST, CHIMP=The research, described by primatologist Frans de Waal, has been reproduced in chimps, dogs, and birds. It reveals an inherent sense of fairness, suggesting that social justice may not be a silly fantasy, but quite natural indeed.



/////////////////////////GOODALL
1960: Chimpanzees as meat eaters
  • First recorded instance of toolmaking by nonhumans

  • 1970: Awe-the chimps spontaneously danced at the sight of a waterfall Jane believes that expression of awe in chimps resembles the emotions that led early humans to religion.



    ////////////////////////////FROM COSMIC AWE TO RELIGN


    //////////////////////////ALGOS IN MIND- SHAPED BY GXE


    ////////////////////////////  LOTTO= RESCUE FANTASY


    /////////////////////////////////CHIMP MEDICINE CHEST-Chimpanzees in East Africa may treat themselves when they feel sick using the same plants that local people use for the identical illnesses
     The clue came when researchers found how widespread the medicinal use of Aspilia was among people. Local Tongwe people make a tea out of leaves to treat wounds, burns and other external ailments and stomach disorders, often caused by worms. Aspilia, in particular the species preferred by the local chimps, is one of the most popular African remedies.


    //////////////////////////////An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before our eyes."




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    Sydney L. W. Mellen (1981) wrote an entire book on the evolution of love. Mellen speculated that species survival depended on primitive emotional bonding between breeding pairs of proto-humans. Such bonding enhanced survival rates, and in a few hundred generations passionate love emerged as a defining human attribute. Thus attachment processes and love may be closely linked.

    Read more: Love - Attachment Theory And The Evolution Of Love - Styles, Human, Research, and Bowlby - JRank Articles http://family.jrank.org/pages/1084/Love-Attachment-Theory-Evolution-Love.html#ixzz2DY4ppSG0
    Sydney L. W. Mellen (1981) wrote an entire book on the evolution of love. Mellen speculated that species survival depended on primitive emotional bonding between breeding pairs of proto-humans. Such bonding enhanced survival rates, and in a few hundred generations passionate love emerged as a defining human attribute. Thus attachment processes and love may be closely linked.

    Read more: Love - Attachment Theory And The Evolution Of Love - Styles, Human, Research, and Bowlby - JRank Articles http://family.jrank.org/pages/1084/Love-Attachment-Theory-Evolution-Love.html#ixzz2DY4ppSG0

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