Rob Russell's Highlights on 'An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion'

What Makes a Country Happy? It’s Complicated

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Nov 5, 2023

Consciousness: a hint of beyond base-level reality. Really?

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Nov 4, 2023

How Neurons Help Decipher Wine Aromas and Other Scents - Neuroscience News

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Nov 2, 2023

Cognitive Maturity: 18 is the Threshold of Cognitive Adulthood - Neuroscience News

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Nov 2, 2023

The evolution of menstruation: A new model for genetic assimilation

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Nov 1, 2023

Natural Selection of Human Embryos: Decidualizing Endometrial Stromal Cells Serve as Sensors of Embryo Quality upon Implantation

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Nov 1, 2023

The significance and evolution of menstruation - PubMed

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Nov 1, 2023

Gene-Edited Organoids Explore Neanderthal Brain Function

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Nov 1, 2023

Menstruation Evolution

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Nov 1, 2023

How animal uses of fire help to illuminate human pyrocognition | Aeon Essays

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Oct 26, 2023

Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms | UN Press

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Oct 22, 2023

These results suggest that oxytocin may counteract the adverse effects of testosterone on a central aspect of social behavior and maternal caretaking. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

I also present evidence that testosterone exhibits opposite effects from oxytocin on diverse aspects of cognition and behaviour, most generally by favouring self‐oriented, asocial and antisocial behaviours. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

Oxytocin enhances attention to the baby schema, promoting maternal behavior and counteracting the negative effects of testosterone in nurturing behavior. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

We conclude that women who received exogenous oxytocin during labor show similar positive personality traits during breastfeeding such as reduction in anxiety and aggression and increasing socialization, including maternal behavior, that have previously been ascribed to endogenous oxytocin. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

In sum, these data document persisting associations between prepartum hormone profiles and human maternal behavior. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

This explicit demonstration that imprinted genes expressed in the offspring influence maternal behaviour lends significant weight to the hypothesis that maternal care is a resource that has been manipulated by the paternal genome. - Consensus

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Oct 22, 2023

Complex social behaviour derived from maternal reproductive traits - PubMed

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Oct 21, 2023

Equality for the sexes in human evolution? Early hominid sexual dimorphism and implications for mating systems and social behavior | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Oct 21, 2023

Naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior in the rat are associated with differences in estrogen-inducible central oxytocin receptors | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Oct 21, 2023

An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion

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Oct 21, 2023

Parasitic worms may control minds of insects with ‘borrowed’ genes

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Oct 21, 2023

These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain. They’re Not Neurons. | Quanta Magazine

www.quantamagazine.org/these-cells-spark-electricity-in-the-brain-theyre-not-neurons-20231018/?mc_cid=a5a50ca368&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51

Oct 20, 2023

Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows

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Oct 20, 2023

Your brain doesn't slow down until your 60s – later than we thought

www.newscientist.com/article/2308810-your-brain-doesnt-slow-down-until-your-60s-later-than-we-thought/

Oct 19, 2023

Mapping the ‘Unknome’ May Reveal Critical Genes Scientists Have Ignored

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Oct 19, 2023

Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features

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Oct 19, 2023

A duplicated gene shaped human brain evolution… and why the genome project missed it

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Oct 18, 2023

branching out

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Oct 18, 2023

War Is Not Part of Human Nature

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Oct 18, 2023

Stop calling it a choice: Biological factors drive homosexuality

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Oct 18, 2023

9.10: Paralogous genes and gene families

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Oct 18, 2023

Evolution of the SRGAP2 Gene Is Linked to Intelligence in Mammals

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Oct 18, 2023

Comparative genomics and the study of evolution by natural selection - PubMed

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Oct 18, 2023

SRGAP2 and the gradual evolution of the modern human language faculty

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Oct 18, 2023

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

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Oct 18, 2023

Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows

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Oct 18, 2023

Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation

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Oct 16, 2023

Deciphering Neurons: A Journey into Synapse Formation - Neuroscience News

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Oct 15, 2023

The medial septum controls hippocampal supra-theta oscillations - Nature Communications

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Oct 11, 2023

Medial Septum’s Key Role in Memory Storage and Recall - Neuroscience News

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Oct 11, 2023

Surprising Findings – Were the First Animals Born Predators?

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Oct 8, 2023

Hormone-mediated neural remodeling orchestrates parenting onset during pregnancy

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Oct 7, 2023

Archaeologists Dig Up 1,400-Year-Old Native American Canal in Alabama

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Oct 7, 2023

Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry

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Sep 28, 2023

Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago - Nature

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Sep 20, 2023

Why We’ll Never Live in Space

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Sep 20, 2023

Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Sep 20, 2023

Males and females differ in specific brain structures

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Sep 8, 2023