Re: [Fwd: New info for nature/nurture fans]

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> 04/25/00 09:16PM >>>
This seems to be important in providing new reasons
to reject the reactionary theories of sociobiology
and evolutionary psychology,

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CB: OK

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 as well as idealist
claims of innate ideas -- e.g., Chomsky's claims that
the brain is hardwired for language.

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CB: How does an experiment that does not deal with the brain matter of language,
demonstrate this regarding the brain matter of language ?


CB




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Subject: New info for nature/nurture fans
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:43:27 -0700
From: Lisa & Ian Murray <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: "Lbo-Talk@Lists. Panix. Com" <lbo-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[this would seem to put a bit of a crimp in the Pinker{ton's}
armamentarium]

April 25, 2000
'Rewired' Ferrets Overturn Theories of Brain Growth
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Like inventive electricians rewiring a house, scientists at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reconfigured newborn ferret
brains so that the animals' eyes are hooked up to brain regions where
hearing normally develops.

The surprising result is that the ferrets develop fully functioning
visual
pathways in the auditory portions of their brains.

In other words, they see the world with brain tissue that was only
thought
capable of hearing sounds.

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