Behavioral Ecology Blog

Religion Money and Structure is Good for Kids

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What is this? Seen this evening. Palm Desert Area (Sonoran Desert). Riverside County California. I’d like to call him a Crotaphytus, but I don’t see anything like this one in Stebbins.
SV=6-8 inches..
EDIT: It has a name: Crotaphytus vestigium

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So it’s been a few days (week) since my last update- which is basically because not much new is happening. The mice (Peromyscus) just don’t seem to be breeding- or at least not much. This is not a big surprise, although it is disappointing. Southern California is in the midst of a [...]

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The great human monogamy debate continues to be one of my favorite subjects to write about- which is good, as there is always new stuff coming out to support my hypothesis.
For those of you new to it: the issue is human monogamy. Now the church, your high school sex ed. [...]

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From Doc Bushwell’s site:
“…Instead I want to see YouTube videos of people ambling around church parking lots during Sunday services and placing pro-rational “tracts” on people’s windshields. I’m not talking about in-your-face “God doesn’t exist, get used to it, ya fuckin’ hayseed!” stuff, but something genuinely useful and even seductive. Material that simply asks readers [...]

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April 28, 2007: Impeachment Summer Begins This Spring!

George Bush and Dick Cheney have lied the nation into a war [...]

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I am constantly amazed by the literal bullsh*t that comes from the church, from politicians, and other special interest groups (big oil included here). Every once and a while- people who seems to be “real” scientists really mess one up. This time, its Dr Lee Silver, a Princeton molecular biologist.
Dr Silver, [...]

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a.k.a Highlights of the 1st week of the field season..

Ok, so photo #1, this is Peromyscus eremicus (Cactus mouse). It is the most common mouse here in Deep Canyon, putatively monogamous (this is one of the things I will establish), and awfully cute. They are averaging 17 grams in weight. They, like most desert [...]

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Once again, our buddies at Exxon Mobile have set a new record for most money made in a single calender year- How much you ask- well, how about 3.9 BILLION dollars.. At least now I know why I’m paying $3.24 per gallon of gas…
It has nothing to do with the cost of crude oil, the [...]

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OK, so it is true that nobody ever said field work was easy- but why can’t these mice just cooperate? I’ve been so nice to them (except that part about cutting off their ear and sticking something in their vagina’s), it seems as if they would have grown to love me by now…
Well seriously, [...]

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