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And if you need just a taste of where Cofnas got his approach, his PhD advisor Neven Sesardic consistently denigrates minorities with abandon, while attempting to provide philosophical justification of race concepts. Recently he's become explicitly white supremacist.

Greg Kohn 2d ago

Beyond his gutter racism, Cofnas consistently resists even approaching the modern scientific literature. He doesn’t cite, or seem to understand, the consensus among geneticists that race doesn’t exist and genes can’t explain behavior. He traffics in shallow controversy and shallow controversy alone. https://www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-danger-of-legitimising-hate-through-academia

The danger of legitimising hate through academia

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Greg Kohn Mar 13

@Nozika עליכם־שלום, יאָ עס זענען דאָ זײער װײניק ײדיש רעדנײַר דאָ אין מאַסטאָדאָנ

Greg Kohn Feb 22

Patrícia Nicoloso Feb 22

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Greg Kohn Feb 4

Re-upping an old post that questions whether evolutionary psychology in humans can really ever live up to its name.

https://gregorykohn.substack.com/p/neophenogenesis-and-evolutionary

Neophenogenesis and Evolutionary Psychology

Note: This is an archived blog post from 2020 on another site.

The Aviary

Greg Kohn Feb 4

Sifting through Animal Behavior Society newsletters and came across a castigation of the field made by Dutch ethologist Adriaan Kortlandt in 1990. He states, "Ethology is supposed to be the study of behaviour, but the behaviour has become invisible." He also used to fight goats during lectures.

Greg Kohn Jan 29

Some staff at my university feed crows from the back of their golf carts. As a result a group of three individuals prowls the parking lots looking for golf carts and consequently have become very confiding.

Greg Kohn Jan 29

Interesting new book on the evolution of agency by Álvaro Moreno and Juli Peretó. I've only read the first few chapters, but I am already hooked! https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-05644-3

An Evolutionary Story of Agency

This open access book exposes the role of agency in the history of life. Agency is understood as the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, ...

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Greg Kohn Nov 17

A Southern Two-striped Walkingstick in the lab this morning. My favorite insect in Florida.

Greg Kohn Nov 17

myrmepropagandist Nov 17

"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.

The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.

I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.