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Genuine Puzzles In Biology?

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frako
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11-07-2010 5:07 AM 		Reply to: Message 75 by Stephen Push
11-07-2010 3:37 AM

Re: Animal Cognition & Consciousness
What about Gallup's mirror test? Don't you think that demonstrates self-awareness in chimpanzees, dolphins, and the other species that have passed the test?
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I think that test only demonstrates witch animals have the capacety to realise that the animal they see is only a reflection i doubt it has much to do whit self-awareness and more whit their cognitive functions that descypher their optical imput.
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11-18-2010 4:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 78 by Dogmafood
11-07-2010 8:24 AM

Re: Ophiocordyceps
There are other virus that effect rats in such a way as to increase it's chances of being eaten by a cat
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I have seen that the virus makes the rat like the cat insted of running away in fear, the virus can also infect humans though what efect if any it has on our minds is not known.
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12-02-2010 12:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 94 by Blue Jay
12-02-2010 12:30 PM

Re: Amygdala & Fear
But, to claim an evolutionary significance for arachnophobia requires spiders to have had a significant impact on human fitness
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Well some tribes eat those big spiders, so i think the fobia is more a leraned trait then a genetic one.
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