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From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Question about Rupert Sheldrake
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Date: 3 Jul 90 15:56:28 GMT
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In article <18066@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidca.TTI.COM (Dick Jackson) writes:
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>The fact that man is a social animal and "altruistic" in the ethological
>sense is one reason adduced for human variability. I won't spell it out.
>Dogs are social animals too, but as someone said, they have been hopeless
>mucked up by ours truly. Consider wolves however, although I have not done
>the proposed objective study, it seems clear to me that within a wolf type
>individuals are very much alike (same hair color, eye color, etc).

The obvious human bias here is the emphasis on visual appearance.
Wolves depend much more on smell, a sense that (relatively speaking) is
practically non-existent in us.

There is a small hole in the wooden fence that runs around our yard.
If you or I wanted to investigate what was going on on the other side
of the fence, we would probably put our eye up to the hole.  My dog
prefers to stick his nose through it.


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