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Ed Hagen
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Washington State University
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Biological anthropologist. Evolutionary medicine, evolution of leadership and cognition.
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Ed Hagen
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This should get you started:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(hp, mpg)) + geom_smooth() + annotate('text', 375, 15, label = 'Here!') + coord_cartesian(clip = 'off', xlim = c(50, 340)) + theme(plot.margin = unit(c(1,5,1,1), "lines")) pic.twitter.com/vzhX9ya6Mg
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Ed Hagen
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I don't know myself. I was responding to the subtitle of the linked article: "Accused of fraud, Anders Pape Möller has traveled from superstar evolutionary biologist to pariah."
Based on citations, at least, there isn't much indication that he's a "pariah".
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Ed Hagen
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You're right. I misinterpreted the google scholar page. But an h-index of 63 since 2015 still makes my point.
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Ed Hagen
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They are on his google scholar page:
scholar.google.com/citations?user…
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Ed Hagen
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Møller is still heavily cited, though, and over the last 5 years his h-index has climbed from 63 to 142 (from google scholar).
Maybe the joke's on us? pic.twitter.com/CMLGxvrmZm
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Ed Hagen
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Also possible that your smells contain a lot of info about your own health, that could then feedback into physiological and behavioral responses that benefit you.
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Ed Hagen
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A carnivorous rodent that preys on insects, scorpions, snakes, and even other mice, and defends its territory by howling in ultrasonic. My favorite example of convergent evolution, it's basically a wolf in mouse clothing.
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I skimmed the paper when it came out and can't remember now if you discussed this, but my strong intuition is that it's prestige bias: grad student sees that folks with many pubs have most prestige, and copies their (bad) methods regardless of their research group.
Thoughts?
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Not sure if this contributes to the conversation, but the geocentric model, with its epicycles being basically a Fourier expansion, made better predictions than the heliocentric model with circular orbits.
But which was the better model?
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Ed Hagen
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I should say that I think the impact of the WEIRD concept on social science has been almost all positive. I just don't want to see Psych make the same mistakes as us Anthro's.
Maybe multilevel regression models will save us 😉
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Ed Hagen
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As Anthro is introduced into Psych via WEIRD concept, need to reflect on Said's Orientalism, a tendency to exoticize and essentialize the "Other" as colonial strategy. Here is Abu-Lughod making this point, and also using term "Bongo-Bongo":
xcelab.net/rm/wp-content/… pic.twitter.com/Gw7Mv30DTq
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H,C&F: "We hypothesize that FLN only includes recursion and is the only uniquely human component of the faculty of language. We further argue that FLN may have evolved for reasons other than language"
I interpret them "there was no selection for language specifically"
Disagree?
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That plus the tight relation of means to beneficial ends. The byproduct hypothesis provides no account of the latter.
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Interestingly, as Aristotle was seeking an explanation for the "purpose" in the parts of animals, he notes (and then rejects) a solution by Empedocles that is dang close to natural selection. I have a short blog post on this:
grasshoppermouse.github.io/2019/06/20/a-t…
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Ed Hagen
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"teeth are admirably constructed for their general office, the front ones being sharp, so as to cut the food into bits, and the hinder ones broad and flat, so as to grind it to a pulp" (Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals). 2/2
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Ed Hagen
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Aristotle had the answer to that one. We know teeth are not byproducts because they reliably develop in everyone & there is a close relation of means to ends that benefits the organism... 1/2
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I just looked at this for the first time, and apparently my audience is mostly interested in dogs.
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Re: learning requires evolved mechanisms. I agree, but I wanted to bend over backwards to grant Smith as many of her points as I could and see if I could still rescue EP.
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Ed Hagen
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EP thought leaders, e.g., Cosmides, Tooby, Pinker, definitely adopt symbolic processing view of cognition. My own view is that you can model *any* physical system as a computational process. Emphasis on *model*.
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