From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue 19 Apr 2005 - 23:06:55 GMT
--- Derek Gatherer <d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> At 17:54 16/04/2005, you wrote:
> >Which eminent evolutionary author is correct on
> >Darwin's relation to Galton, Aunger or Pinker?
>
> I'll check. I've just written in an article I'm
> doing at the moment, that
> Galton was Darwin's cousin. That's what I've always
> believed, but I
> suppose I'd better make sure.
>
>
Bill posted a link that supports that they were
hal-cousins. Unless someone can support that that
Galton was Darwin's uncle I'm going to assume Aunger
flubbed on this one. Coupled with his explanations of
the cellular functions of ribosomes, I'm left
scratching my head in amazement. I'd like your's and
Chris's input into this. Maybe I didn't dive into
cellular biology deep enough where the integral role
of ribosomes is unmasked. I always thought that
ribosomes were where mRNA is translated into peptides.
I pretty sure DNA polymerases play a role in
replication, but not ribosomes. I think I had brought
this topic up here a while back, but want to make sure
I'm not missing something this next attempt at
deciphering Aunger's book. I've got the grandpappy's
of neuropsych Hebb and Lashley handy, so maybe I'll be
quite occupied in the near future.
BTW, has anyone gone anywhere with Lashley's notion of
memory trace redupilcation? I gather that he thought
the engram was non-local but still physical. His work
pinted to a diffuse sort of memory trace instead of a
localized engram. Hebb strats chopping away at field
theories and equipotentiality stuff quite early in his
monograph and starts in with the Ma Bell
(ie-switchboard) theories of synaptic connectivity.
A really interesting aside is that Jack Orbach in his
_The Neuropsychological Theories of Lashley and Hebb_
talks about (on page 5) how Hebb had used something
like the Necker cube to put the organism back into S-R
psychology (thus making it S-O-R). Organismic response
variation to reversible figures supposedly demostrates
that there's more to it than S-R behaviorism would
acknowledge. Ironically isn't the Necker cube what
Dawkins used as a way of getting his readers to shift
focus away from the organism?
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