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SUMMARY:Heidi Lyn - Dogs\, Apes\, Dolphins\, and Environment Effects on Communication and Cognition
DESCRIPTION:Heidi Lyn: University of South AlabamaThe study of animal communication and cognition has a long history\, and one that frequently focuses on the human lineage (looking for homologous traits). In recent years\, true comparative cognition has become more frequently reported in the literature. However\, these studies can often be flawed\, with many researchers failing to account for methodological changes that accompany a change in species. In addition\, there is a strong tendency to assume that all differences in evidence between species are biological in nature. I will describe examples of these problematic studies and interpretation with special emphasis on how human environments can change cognitive and communicative capabilities in dolphins\, dogs\, and apes.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/heidi-lyn-dogs-apes-dolphins-and-environment-effects-on-communication-and-cognition/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Ryan Nichols - Evaluating the Labor Market Explanation of Footbinding:  Theoretical\, Methodological\, and Statistical Problems
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Nichols: Cal State University FullertonFootbinding refers to a historical practice of the Han Chinese involving\, typically\, the repeated ritual wrapping of the feet of young girls\, often involving the breaking of toes\, in an effort to create small. This presentation presents and discusses the Labor Market theory of footbinding (Brown et al. 2012; Bossen et al. 2011; Gates & Bossen\, 2017; etc.). According to the Labor Market theory\, footbinding’s maintenance over 1\,000 years is explained as the product of a profit motive on the part of parents with daughters\, whose sewing and weaving labor was possible only if their feet were bound. This theory asserts that footbinding’s origins and cessation are also explained due to forces regulating the market price of girls’ handicraft labor. The neo-Marxist Labor Market theory reigns as the most popular interdisciplinary explanation of footbinding. Despite this\, a close study of its key findings reveals poor theoretical motivation\, methodological problems\, and repeated irregularities in use of accompanying data. Normally retesting a dataset would resolve many of these issues. However\, Labor Market theory team members Melissa Brown\, Hill Gates\, and Laurel Bossen continue to decline requests by several scholars for access to their data.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/ryan-nichols-evaluating-the-labor-market-explanation-of-footbinding-theoretical-methodological-and-statistical-problems/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200420T000000
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SUMMARY:Barry Bogin - Stunting is not a synonym of malnutrition
DESCRIPTION:Barry Bogin: Loughborough University & University of Michigan-DearbornThe World Health Organization defines stunting as\, “…impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition\, repeated infection\, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation.” Most of the recent research literature equates stunting with malnutrition\, less with infection\, and rarely with psychosocial issues. In contrast\, most of the historic literature indicates that growth in height is largely independent of the extent and nature of the diet. We are sceptical that the estimated global prevalence of 150 million stunted infants and children is due to under-feeding. Systematic reviews of modern nutrition interventions find no impact on linear growth.  We hypothesise that the majority of stunted infants and children are suffering from the social-emotional stresses of poverty – stresses that antagonize skeletal growth hormones.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/barry-bogin-stunting-is-not-a-synonym-of-malnutrition/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200427T000000
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SUMMARY:Colin Allen - 40 Years On: The Quest for a Scientific Philosophy of Animal Minds
DESCRIPTION:Colin Allen: University of Pittsburgh2020 marks the 40th anniversary* of the publication of the pioneering work on vervet monkey alarm calls by Robert Seyfarth\, Dorothy Cheney\, and Peter Marler\, as well as the 30th anniversary of the publication of Cheney & Seyfarth’s book How Monkeys See the World. Although not everyone was as willing as they were to embrace the label of “cognitive ethology” — coined by Donald Griffin in 1978 — the shift from Griffin’s anecdotal approach to seemingly fuzzy ideas about animal consciousness to a broader\, more experimental approach to animal cognition over the past four decades is\, by a variety of measures\, a story of scientific success. New societies\, new journals\, new experiments\, a big increase in the range of taxa studied\, and even some new university departments\, all contribute to the sense that the field of comparative animal cognition a progressive one. There is also a new generation of philosophers of animal mind who are collaborating closely with scientists. Despite all this\, comparative cognition remains in what Thomas Kuhn would have called a “pre-paradigmatic” state. It lacks unifying theories and methods\, and there is little consensus even about the right questions to ask. In this talk I will consider a range of explanations for this state of affairs\, and address the question of what\, if anything\, should be done differently.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/colin-allen-40-years-on-the-quest-for-a-scientific-philosophy-of-animal-minds/
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