From Human-Ethology Yahoo public group

[Craig Mackay]

Hello Craig,

 

Thank you for posting this information. Can you excerpt some of the basic issues in your book to generate some discussion? For example can you say more about "how the behavior patterns of children and young adults are established." What behavior patterns are you talking about? Can you give some examples? Why does our survival and success now depend principally on our adaptation to our social environment more so than our adaptation to our social environment when we lived in small tribal villages or even farther back when we lived in even smaller hunter-gather bands? Also, what are "social genes"? If you remember or know, Tinbergen argued that sociality per se is not heritable, only individual elements of it are, which together create sociality.

 

Regards,

Jay R. Feierman