<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Neanderthal Neuroscience</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Orgasms in a brain scanner and other stories from the Society for Neuroscience &#171; Science Technology Informer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17167</link>
		<dc:creator>Orgasms in a brain scanner and other stories from the Society for Neuroscience &#171; Science Technology Informer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17167</guid>
		<description>[...] received far less coverage than I had expected, but science writer extraordinaire Carl Zimmer described it very comprehensively on is [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] received far less coverage than I had expected, but science writer extraordinaire Carl Zimmer described it very comprehensively on is [...] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Renee</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17166</link>
		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17166</guid>
		<description>Would it be too much to ask to have a forum where we will not be invaded by creationist religious cretins? This is Discover and it is a Science magazine. I truly wish you would monitor and not publish comments that are not related to the topic. Thank you.

&lt;strong&gt;[CZ: Renee, please check my &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/01/10/comment-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comment policy&lt;/a&gt;. I actually do monitor my comments, but not in order to ban creationists. When people present scientific errors in the comment thread, Loom readers regularly do a great job of explaining why they&#039;re wrong. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/08/07/cystic-fibrosis-blame-eve/#comment-3386&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&#039;s an example.&lt;/a&gt; I find this kind of exchange more useful than deleting comments.]&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would it be too much to ask to have a forum where we will not be invaded by creationist religious cretins? This is Discover and it is a Science magazine. I truly wish you would monitor and not publish comments that are not related to the topic. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>[CZ: Renee, please check my <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/01/10/comment-policy/" rel="nofollow">comment policy</a>. I actually do monitor my comments, but not in order to ban creationists. When people present scientific errors in the comment thread, Loom readers regularly do a great job of explaining why they're wrong. <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/08/07/cystic-fibrosis-blame-eve/#comment-3386" rel="nofollow">Here's an example.</a> I find this kind of exchange more useful than deleting comments.]</strong></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Neanderthal Neuroscience The Loom Discover Magazine &#171; windaelicker</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17165</link>
		<dc:creator>Neanderthal Neuroscience The Loom Discover Magazine &#171; windaelicker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17165</guid>
		<description>[...] Neanderthal Neuroscience The Loom Discover Magazine. [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Neanderthal Neuroscience The Loom Discover Magazine. [...] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jeeve Stobs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17164</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeeve Stobs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17164</guid>
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/74944514/Autism-The-Eusocial-Hominid-Hypothesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/74944514/Autism-The-Eusocial-Hominid-Hypothesis" rel="nofollow">Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Your Inner Neanderthal &#124; iNoTruth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17163</link>
		<dc:creator>Your Inner Neanderthal &#124; iNoTruth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17163</guid>
		<description>[...] for the comparisons with the Neanderthals, so far, Pääbo’s team has found almost&#160;80 genetic variants&#160;that are unique to modern humans. The function of these variants could help us understand what [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] for the comparisons with the Neanderthals, so far, Pääbo’s team has found almost&nbsp;80 genetic variants&nbsp;that are unique to modern humans. The function of these variants could help us understand what [...] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jeeve Stobs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17162</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeeve Stobs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17162</guid>
		<description>&quot;Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis&quot;

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/12/05/autism-outline/autism-outline.pdf

“Will some of these Neanderthal fragments be found to be important in cognition, language ability, and other higher brain functions? To find out, it will be necessary to understand the human epigenome and transcriptome in detail, so that we can determine the true impact of both structural and regulatory genes on the development and function of the brain.”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/12/05/autism-outline/autism-outline.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/12/05/autism-outline/autism-outline.pdf</a></p>
<p>“Will some of these Neanderthal fragments be found to be important in cognition, language ability, and other higher brain functions? To find out, it will be necessary to understand the human epigenome and transcriptome in detail, so that we can determine the true impact of both structural and regulatory genes on the development and function of the brain.”</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Math, speech, and trees &#171; Rturpin&#039;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17161</link>
		<dc:creator>Math, speech, and trees &#171; Rturpin&#039;s Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17161</guid>
		<description>[...] Zimmer has a nice post on Svante Paabo and the use of genetics to probe human evolution, including language capacity of [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Zimmer has a nice post on Svante Paabo and the use of genetics to probe human evolution, including language capacity of [...] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: dan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17160</link>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17160</guid>
		<description>good article, but what was that nonsense about Neanderthals having no art? Their art is oldest in the world, it pre-dates that of humans...
[indeed what ever happened to the research a few years back pointing to the awkward view that they were in fact smarter than us, and their late development was their downfall as we, the dumber more brutish race, outbred them by developing just that two or three years faster and thus killing them all off?] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>good article, but what was that nonsense about Neanderthals having no art? Their art is oldest in the world, it pre-dates that of humans&#8230;<br />
[indeed what ever happened to the research a few years back pointing to the awkward view that they were in fact smarter than us, and their late development was their downfall as we, the dumber more brutish race, outbred them by developing just that two or three years faster and thus killing them all off?] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Apparently My Week Has 8 Days In It &#171; The Upside Down World</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17159</link>
		<dc:creator>Apparently My Week Has 8 Days In It &#171; The Upside Down World</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17159</guid>
		<description>[...] Neanderthal Neuroscience and Neuroscience and Free Will [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Neanderthal Neuroscience and Neuroscience and Free Will [...] </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Torbjorn Larsson, OM</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/11/14/neanderthal-neuroscience/#comment-17158</link>
		<dc:creator>Torbjorn Larsson, OM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5140#comment-17158</guid>
		<description>Great news and summary! It is encouraging to see that neuroscientists and paleoanthropologists are working together.

Not so encouraging to see people still rejecting accepted science:

@ prentice:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
evilution
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Evolution is working and accepted, which is why Pääbo works on it. And we don&#039;t see any alternatives that works!

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Evilutionists tell us once you die, then that’s it, there is nothing else for you.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That is, famously, not a prediction out of biology but physics. Thermodynamics tells you a dead body has stopped metabolizing. Blame Carnot.

And keep your sciences apart. Creationism rejects all of them, but physics most of all.

@ Andrea D. Merciless:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
another RACE of man
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Race is a concept of artificial selection (dogs et cetera) and ethnicity, not biology. They see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deme_%28biology%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;demes and subspecies&lt;/a&gt; AFAIU.

&lt;blockquote&gt;
is evolution even possible without the reality of race?
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Certainly you don&#039;t have to have more than one &#039;deme&#039; at any specific time that continually evolves.

An example over space instead of time would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ring species where demes are spatially dispersed and linked along a cline&lt;/a&gt;. You&#039;ll note that after a sufficient distance along a cline (or time), speciation occurs despite there is only one deme present locally.

So this contradiction with observation fells your proposal. Racism has no biological basis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great news and summary! It is encouraging to see that neuroscientists and paleoanthropologists are working together.</p>
<p>Not so encouraging to see people still rejecting accepted science:</p>
<p>@ prentice:</p>
<blockquote><p>
evilution
</p></blockquote>
<p>Evolution is working and accepted, which is why Pääbo works on it. And we don&#8217;t see any alternatives that works!</p>
<blockquote><p>
Evilutionists tell us once you die, then that’s it, there is nothing else for you.
</p></blockquote>
<p>That is, famously, not a prediction out of biology but physics. Thermodynamics tells you a dead body has stopped metabolizing. Blame Carnot.</p>
<p>And keep your sciences apart. Creationism rejects all of them, but physics most of all.</p>
<p>@ Andrea D. Merciless:</p>
<blockquote><p>
another RACE of man
</p></blockquote>
<p>Race is a concept of artificial selection (dogs et cetera) and ethnicity, not biology. They see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deme_%28biology%29" rel="nofollow">demes and subspecies</a> AFAIU.</p>
<blockquote><p>
is evolution even possible without the reality of race?
</p></blockquote>
<p>Certainly you don&#8217;t have to have more than one &#8216;deme&#8217; at any specific time that continually evolves.</p>
<p>An example over space instead of time would be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species" rel="nofollow">ring species where demes are spatially dispersed and linked along a cline</a>. You&#8217;ll note that after a sufficient distance along a cline (or time), speciation occurs despite there is only one deme present locally.</p>
<p>So this contradiction with observation fells your proposal. Racism has no biological basis.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
