John Skoyles
Human metabolic adaptations and prolonged expensive neurodevelopment: A review
1. After weaning, human hunter-gatherer juveniles receive substantial (≈3.5-7 MJ day-1), extended (≈15 years) and reliable (kin and nonkin food pooling) energy provision.2. The childhood (pedia…
Received 30 October 2008 03:54 UTC; Posted 31 October 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology
Respiratory, postural and spatio-kinetic motor stabilization, internal models, top-down timed motor coordination and expanded cerebello-cerebral circuitry: a review
Human dexterity, bipedality, and song/speech vocalization in Homo are reviewed within a motor evolution perspective in regard to (i) brain expansion in cerebello-cerebral circuitry, (ii) enha…
Received 18 July 2008 16:51 UTC; Posted 21 July 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience
How gut sampling and microbial invasiveness/noninvasiveness provides mucosal immunity with a nonmolecular pattern means to distinguish commensals from pathogens: A review
Mucosal immunity distinguishes not only different microbial antigens but also separates those of pathogens from those of commensals. How this is done is unknown. The present view is that the pathog…
Received 16 May 2008 11:51 UTC; Posted 16 May 2008
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology
Perceptual deficits and inattention in schizophrenia
A number of investigators have found perceptual deficits in schizophrenic subjects. It has also been indicated that those with schizophrenia suffer from reduced attention. This raises the possibili…
Received 09 February 2008 18:15 UTC; Posted 11 February 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
