A fallacious leap? Ancestral and derived traits
So far, I don’t think anyone has read my latest publication in its entirety, before commenting on what they think I don’t know or understand. After reading little more than 7 pages (10 with references), it should become clearer that I have simply incorporated the basic principles of biology and levels of biological organization required to link sensory cause and effect across species. See for example: Feedback loops link odor and pheromone signaling with reproduction.
Nevertheless, a correspondent says I am making a fallacious leap from what is known about the ancestral state of odor-guided behavior in microbes to explanations of current state-dependent behaviors of other organisms. He argues that just because olfaction is an ancestral trait doesn’t mean all species use it. Different creatures may have derived other sensory modalities to navigate their social and non social environments. Thus, the notion of “ancestral” and “derived” traits may be central to understanding the evolution of behavior…or anything else.
I enjoy incorporating concepts that others think I don’t understand into responses that reflect my understanding – as I hope will be the case with the notion of ancestral and derived traits. Although I cannot force anyone to read my works, I remain hopeful that those who challenge me on the basis of their notions/assumptions will first learn what I know about the concepts they think they understand.
To those who first read my most recent work, it should also become clearer that a “fallacious leap” can be found in attempts by others to link the spectral senses directly to mammalian reproduction with no consideration either for evolved bottom-up organization or for top-down effects on the required gene, cell, tissue, organ, organ system pathway. For example, there is no scientific support for any derived notion/assumption that spectral input is involved in “…an ancestral recognition system that discriminates between self and non-self (whose function is expected to have been in sexual selection) was incorporated into the quality-control system for an evolutionary new discrimination system (using randomized receptor specificities) while retaining a function in sexual selection.” Simply put, self and non-self recognition is required for receptor mediated events in sexual selection and there is no ancestral need for input from the spectral senses.
In contrast, with the full scientific support of others, I offer the honeybee as a model organism that links the ancestral recognition system of microbes to the study of this derived “quality-control system” in the evolution of epigenetically altered receptor-mediated events in human immunity, disease resistance, allergic reaction, circadian rhythms, antibiotic resistance, the development of the brain and behavior, mental health, longevity, diseases of the X chromosome, learning and memory, as well as conditioned responses to sensory stimuli.
If my focus on the ancestral olfactory/pheromonal calibration, standardization, and the derived “quality-control system” of species-specific behaviors has caused me to miss something about the notion of “ancestral” and “derived” traits that is important to the evolution of human behavior, I will need some species-specific data on the derived relative incentive salience of spectral input compared to its ancestral role. Until then, I see the involvement of the spectral senses only as an adjunct in the context of understanding the evolution of reproductive sexual behavior…or anything else.
As I’ve already repeatedly indicated, claims that spectral input is more important to the evolved behavior of birds or fish continue to fall by the wayside as newer data consistently supports the ancestral olfactory/pheromonal model, which can be tracked back to its origins in brewer’s yeast, or more speculatively to its origins in other microbes where nutrient chemical-dependent calibrated reproduction is standardized and controlled by pheromones and quorum sensing.
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Genes not culture drive humans forward (an antithetical approach)
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Creation of different species without physical barriers (Part One)
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Teaching science to the religious: theories of development
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Did viruses make mammals communicate with pheromones?
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Do Pheromones Play a Role in Our Sex Lives: Scientific American
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Human Pheromones: 2010 Powerpoint slides and 2011 poster presentation
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Is Love in the Air? Human Pheromones and Axillary Chemistry by George Preti
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Epigenetics and the connectome
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Another Remembered Present
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Pheromones and food odors add more than just color to your world
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Misrepresentations of biologically based cause and effect:
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Human Pheromones: An Accurate Conceptualization
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The Perversion of Science by Evolutionary Psychologists
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Human skull study causes evolutionary headache
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Docosahexaenoic acid and autism: praying for hope, or preying on hope
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Timing is key in the proper wiring of the brain: study
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Behavioral epigenetics
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Cause and effect in biology
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Baiting evolutionary psychologists and others who damn religion
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Human Pheromones may influence brain chemistry into adulthood
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Progress in brain research (e.g., starting over)
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Show me the science!
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Baiting the behaviorist(s)
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Theory versus biological facts: Mental modules and models for behavior
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Ethics, aphrodisiacs, and pheromones
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Digit ratio does not predict attractiveness of body odor
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“Genes (are not) Activated by Sound!”
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An organizing principle for our sense of smell
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Epigenetics of food odors, nutrition, and pheromones
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Pheromones and falling in love (circa 1974)
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Trust the science. Don’t trust the hype
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Men and women who stare at goats…
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The Sex Lives of Insects: Part III
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The Sex Lives of Insects (Part II)
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The Sex Lives of Insects
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The epigenetics of food choice and mate choice
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Pheromones and detectable odors
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The “yuck” factor: aversion to social odors?
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Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males
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The Mind’s Eyes: Mindful modeling of brain directed behavior
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Study results: Human pheromones affect women’s behavior
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Human Pheromones and the Biology of Behavior
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Sniffing out your nightlife / Pheromone-infused nightclubs
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Erox rises from the ashes
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Avian recognition of human faces
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Human Pheromones Affect Women's Behavior
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A lesser role for olfaction and pheromones in humans?
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Creating a Myth
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Study results: Human pheromones influence human behavior
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The great pheromone myth revisited (including biological factors in the development of sexuality)
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The great pheromone myth revisited (including biological factors in the development of sexuality)
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Wikipedia comments by James V. Kohl
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Natural scent of women linked to increased testosterone and seduction
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Genes, Hormones, and Behavior (for other scientists)
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Too many good-smelling males is not good
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A fundamental attribution error: Love at first sight
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Pheromones and Physiology: Faculty of 1000: Naturally Selected
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Human pheromones in tears automagically effect testosterone
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Tears and fears of pheromones
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Exotic Pheromones and Concentrates
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Human Pheromones, The Scent of Eros, and Cultural Evolution
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Dialogue on pheromones: Avery Gilbert / James V. Kohl
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Mammalian pheromones are not a myth
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Molecular biology and social science theory
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Study Results: Human pheromones increase flirtatious behavior and ratings of attraction
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Epigenetics, science fiction, and scientific fact
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Results: increased flirtatious behavior and self-reported attraction
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Pheromones and sexual behavior in birds
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Is it what he or she sees in you, or is it your pheromones?
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Conditioning of the human pair bond by human pheromones
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Human pheromones work by effecting hormones that affect behavior
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Conditioned sexual arousal to odor
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Presentation on Human Pheromones delivered on August 3, 2010
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American and Canadian Mensa Presentation
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The Great Pheromone Myth (opinion/review)
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Welcome to Pheromones.com
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Scent of a woman: Men’s Testosterone Responses to Women's Scent
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Earlier evidence: pheromones influence testosterone in men
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Luteinizing hormone, sex, and smell (18 years later)
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