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This is a threaded version of Chapter 14:

“The Twelfth Descent—Accumulation:”

of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by Michael Adzema.

READ CH THREAD or CLICK a link for free BOOK...

READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig… #psychology #greed #devolution #possession

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Chapter 14 is subtitled,

“The “Domestication” of Humans—

“The Ability to Store Things Changes Everything for Prehistoric Humans...But Not in the Way We Thought It Did—

“Eden Stormed...The Rich Begin Calling the Tune”

THREAD wp.me/pwMlb-3in #psychology #greed

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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “This tragic, life-diminishing spinoff of our ability to gather & accumulate excessive ‘things’ was a desire to control even those of our own species: Our fellow humans became the last targets of our mania for control.” []

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“The Tenth Descent—Husbandry:

“The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness Allowed the “Domestication of Animals”

is Ch 10

of *Prodigal Human*

by Michael Adzema

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sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/02/prodig…

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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “ …enslavement of our family in Nature was an abominable affront to their nobility & was a scar on human character:… Our increasing drive to control made us abominations in Nature.” []

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“[Chapter 9 text begins:] *Out of Anxiety, Humans Cheat in the Game of Life*

“In due time, this time not long at all, after we humans “conquered” the Flora Empire on Earth, we began “conquering” fellow planetmates of the Fauna Kingdom.”

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Si vous dites : "X génère telles nuisances" alors que ces nuisances sont induites par le comportement de Y qui exploite X et en tire profit (au détriment des intérêts de X) ; alors vous stigmatisez X (déjà victime), sans toucher Y (pourtant cause du problème).

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Je parle ici (même si ça fonctionne avec bien des cas) des énoncés selon lesquels les "animaux de compagnie" seraient des "catastrophes écologiques", "responsables du réchauffement climatique", etc.

#climat #communication
Autre exemple ici : lepoint.fr/sciences-natur…
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It became the major allele in wolves, making them bigger than other canids, probably during the last ice age. However, the small allele never disappeared.
During the #domestication time, humans created the first small dogs using the ancestral small allele that still existing in wolves. We found it in a 9,500 year old dog sample. Today this small allele is the major allele in modern dogs, in 75% of small breeds < 15kg
We also show that the mutation is located within a #lncRNA, antisense of IGF1, sharing 182 bp in common, that we named IGF1-AS. We did not detect differential expressions for IGF1 and IGF1-AS between large and small #dogs, but we measured difference in IGF1 protein level in serum
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Excited to share our story about an ancestral mutation in a #lncrna antisense of IGF1, that appeared over 50,000 years ago in #wolves, and that impacts modern #dogs and wild canids body size. It's out in @CurrentBiology. cell.com/current-biolog…
All thanks to my co-authors including @NicolasDubos @BevantKevin @ThomasDerrien7 @laurenhennelly1 @LrFrantz @Greger_Larson and the Ostrander lab @genome_gov
It is not only a #dog story, it is a #canid story.
An old allele associated with small size is shared between 13 different canid species.
A second allele, associated with large size, appeared in #wolves lineage, detected in a 54,000 years old #wolf.
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/28/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/dai…
Smallpox vials found at Montgomery County lab, but ‘there is no basis for being worried’

inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…

#smallpox #laboratories #InfectionRisk
Satellites offer new ways to study ecosystems—and maybe even save them

science.org/content/articl…

#RemoteSensing #SatelliteTechnology #EcosystemsHealth #CorrectiveAction
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 05/17/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/05/17/dai…
Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic

theinsight.org/p/battlestar-g…

#ransomware #PandemicResponse #LessonsLearned
Female northern elephant seals spend 18 hours a day foraging in deep sea

phys.org/news/2021-05-f…

#FemaleSeals #foraging #BehaviorTracking
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Does #domestication (reduced reactive aggression) potentiate vocal learning? If so, how exactly does this happen?
@Thomas_ORourke @ptsgmartins @asano_rie @ro_tachi @okanoyalab & I look into this question in this new @TrendsCognSci paper 🧵
authors.elsevier.com/a/1cpx74sIRvHk…
Kaz Okanoya has done extensive work documenting differences between the songs of the domesticated Bengalese finch and the songs of its wild relative, the white-dumped munia.
Various measures point to increased variability and 'complexity' in the song of the Bengalese finch.
We built on work @Thomas_ORourke and I did showing that the glutamate neurotransmitter system is disproportionately targeted in the evolution of domesticates: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Very nice study on molecular footprints of #domestication, corroborating earlier work of our group @cbl_bcn. Particularly pleased to see how @Thomas_ORourke's work on convergence on specific glutamate receptors receives strong support bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Our original study: dx.doi.org/10.1371/journa…
& @Thomas_ORourke's in-depth exploration of glutamate receptors: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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No study exists in a vacuum, and for my part, in the context of our new @ScienceAdvances paper ⬇️, there are lots of people to thank. [Thread]
Maybe the most important outcome of working on a complex paper across labs is the strengthening of friendship. Thanks @gtesta72! In addition to my own students, I was lucky to work with great students in Milan @MatteoZanella88 @polvere7 @SebastianoTrat and others not on Twitter
Thanks to Adam Wilkins, Richard Wrangham and @TecumsehFitch for putting forward the neural-crest based account of #Domestication, which gave us a concrete hypothesis to test, and to @bharedogguy, for his work and his support of our group's projects
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