Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / November 2007

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Does anybody know if there has been any research
into whether people have a genetic susceptibility
to religious indoctrination and brainwashing?
I suspect there is a "critical period" as psychologists

Within the research project of Artificial Life (AL), it is tried to
simulate life. Good examples are the papers by Terzopoulos. For
example, in his paper about fishes (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/  see
Publications - No. 26) his animals show a quite complex and realistic

I have a very tiny kettle of fish to open up.
To what extent do religions act as breeding programs?
Do religions compete for maximal population count
of followers?

I'm new around here and I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Matt
Browne and I'm a computer scientist and a science fiction writer. My
special interests include:
extinction level events, supervolcanoes, interstellar travel, androids

Patterning the vertebrate neuraxis. (Developmental Neurobiology)(Cover
Story).
Andrew Lumsden and Robb Krumlaf.
Abstract:

Plutonium Day is the November 7 of every year for it was on this day
that the Plutonium Atom
Totality was discovered in 1990. The second and only other holiday in
the year is 14 December for that is

surely we can now discern with acuracy the first moment of
consciousness...
article taken from lancet, 2002...
We investigated the feasibility of recording visual evoked brain

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