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The first signs of art date from more than 30.000 years ago (e.g. cave art) whereas the first signs of writing (e.g. Tamil) appeared let say ca. 5000 years ago? Any idea why artistic humans waited...
14 February 2016 6,275 93 View
Person X often meets for a couple of minutes or hours in a lifetime person Y and judges person Y based on short-term impressions. This also happens when animals are studied in wildlife conditions,...
29 October 2015 492 85 View
Medical doctors face/treat many human diseases/handicaps for which we assume they do not occur in wildlife populations. For instance, evolutionary biologists might claim that handicapped/sick...
02 January 2015 4,813 65 View
Field conditions may scientifically never be truly standardized because of perception constraints, logistic constraints or continuous dynamics in nature. The need to standardize experimental...
06 December 2014 6,392 44 View
Animals cannot talk about....
03 December 2014 6,310 10 View
New research in mice indicates that a hormone like oxytocin influences socio-sexual behavior. The hormone is presented as a love hormone in the media. How should these results be placed in a...
12 October 2014 8,185 20 View
Many scientific publications result from education products like PhD or Master work. However, students are also often educated to be able to have complex reasoning, to handle complex problems, or...
11 July 2014 8,822 95 View
Impacts of individual publications are often measured via citation rates. Average citation per publication rates differ across research domains (e.g. Mathematics versus Ecology). Is there a...
01 July 2014 1,295 88 View
Empirical research is mainly based on observation and perception using brain structures and receptors that are individual-specific or species-specific. Different organisms do not perceive and...
25 June 2014 9,110 19 View
What is scientifically acceptable from a social of view when a manuscript or project is judged?
20 June 2014 4,516 10 View
Do the contents of student reports result from language-competence or science competence? How much of the details in articles is truly captured by students that learn a new language to master the...
26 April 2014 8,730 88 View
People's phenotype changes every day (clothes, hair cuts, face expressions, etc...) and therefore does not (always) reflect what is exposed as a profile photo in social networks? Accepting that a...
26 April 2014 9,082 22 View
How can commissions selecting candidates for education judge scientific competence of the candidates when the commissions do not master the science literature because of language constraints? Are...
26 April 2014 2,377 3 View
Cultural transmission in animals is well accepted, but what about art produced by wildlife? Do animals produce art?
20 March 2014 9,201 91 View
Do 'educated' and 'uneducated' people differ in risk-taking strategies? Why do some adults follow community-imposed rules while others do not? Example: Why do adults driving a car keep ignoring...
17 March 2014 5,187 65 View
What entities will evolve through the process of natural selection? The units that are reproduced (e.g. genes, accepting true replication truly exists) or the units that allow reproduction (e.g....
10 March 2014 2,760 4 View
How a research domain is theoretically defined or framed might influence how it is practically perceived by citizens or experts from other research domains. This can be illustrated with the...
30 January 2014 5,669 40 View
Knowledge is evolving fast, which also implies that contents of older publications are not supported by recent publications. Why do people continue citing older publications not supported by...
29 January 2014 1,651 42 View
Living beings might be described as automatized pilots of vehicles. They function without knowing or consciously verifying the technical details of all individual biological processes involved....
24 January 2014 4,281 10 View
If 1000 people would observe the same phenomenon 'C' and be asked to formulate a hypothesis 'C' to explain phenomenon 'C', what fraction of the observers would formulate hypothesis 'C' in exactly...
19 January 2014 2,261 29 View
Philosophers or scientists aim to define unifying theories to explain as much as possible numerous phenomena based on a few principles. Philosophers might for instance state that two phenomena...
15 January 2014 2,079 86 View
Physical expression of extended phenotypes (e.g. Dawkins 1981) differs from physical expression of phenotypes producing physical expression of extended phenotypes. Should any form of energy...
14 January 2014 7,670 1 View
Article titles often contain messages that do not represent the scales of analysis practically explored in the published studies. For instance, if a title contains a science terminology like...
14 January 2014 2,200 20 View
The definition of parasitism implies that some living beings named 'parasites' take energy for individual survival at costs of living beings named 'hosts'. Terminology 'host' might give the...
14 January 2014 7,201 45 View
Wildlife does not have access to mirrors to see (and judge) own phenotype, like head characteristics (eye or face colors, forehead patch, crown...). In several species, male colors are bright...
07 January 2014 9,058 30 View
