Fido the Yak

• BBC reports on Dikika Girl. Apparently her brain is smaller relative to adult A. afarensis than a chimp's would be, suggesting a slower rate of maturation–not as slow as a human's, but significant. What sort of variation is there in afarensis skull size?


• Brandon looks at Aquinas on "actual being."


• Dylan on the Towering Cosmopolis.


• Chris examines the labratory research which shows conclusively that monkeys don't like Mozart. (Personally I couldn't get past Ray Jackendoff's not very musical phraseology of "Norwegian Wood," so I'm thankful that somebody else is keeping tabs on what the cognitive scientists are doing with music.)


• Caleb is calling it quits. Congratulations to him.


• What was Aristotle's problem with adultery (moicheia)? Michael Pakaluk looks into it here and here.

posted by Fido the Yak at 11:45 AM.