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Unreliable Instincts, or Why Bad Mothers Are Found Among People. Column for Kompyuterra #104
And what remains of Lorenz's behavior control scheme after excluding fixed action patterns from it? Need→(releaser)→motivation. This is precisely what is called instinct, for example, by Anatoliy Protopopov and Oleksiy …
April 18, 2013. Trip to Krasnokutsk District
First of all, we of course wanted to catch the spawning of pool frogs, Pelophylax lessonae. We missed it. But the trip turned out to be truly interesting...
Wallace's Paradox, or Why We Have Such a Large Brain. Column for Kompyuterra #105
Sexual selection and selection for Machiavellian intelligence become intertwined and begin to reinforce each other. High intelligence becomes a fitness marker, attracting mates; carriers of this marker leave more offspring …
April 2013. Student Biology Olympiad in Zhytomyr
This year's All-Ukrainian Biology Olympiad was held in Zhytomyr, at Zhytomyr State University.
Open Letter to A. V. Yablokov Regarding a Book on Genetically Modified Products (Written circa 2002)
Around 2002 I read a book that amazed me: "Kings and Cabbage. What They Will Never Tell You About Genetic Engineering" (Moscow: SOES Publishing House, 2000). This book was published …
Why do we allow ourselves to be deceived, or Sad reflections on the irrationality of political life. Column for Computerra #106
…perhaps the main cleavage dividing society in Russia and Ukraine — is not the line of confrontation between the authorities and the opposition. The boundary between irrationality and rationality may …
Gates of Senses: What Do the Relationships Between Our Archaic Olfaction and Evolutionarily Advanced Vision Testify To? Column for Компьютерры #107
You now understand why the primate group to which we belong is called dry-nosed primates, Haplorrhini (as opposed to the more primitive, in our view, wet-nosed primates – Strepsirrhini). Wet-nosed …
On the humanitarian and natural science approach to an explosive topic: discussing the causes of homosexual behavior. Column for Kompyuterra #108
The problem is that humanities scholars are not interested in what the subject they discuss actually is, how it developed, what the mechanisms of its functioning are. The main thing, …
May 2013. Children
A few photographs of children
May 2013. Possibly the Last Photographs Taken with My Camera...
Photographs taken shortly before I drowned my camera.
Social Utopia: How an Unbiased, Ideology-Free Society Should Treat the Diversity of Human Sexuality. Column for Computerra #109
The individual norm is heterosexuality (and possibly bisexuality as well). The group norm is, in all likelihood, the presence of a certain proportion of bisexual and homosexual individuals. The social …
Specific regulatory mechanism or selection? Discussion of one hypothesis about the mechanisms of reproduction of interspecific hybrids of green frogs. Column for Kompyuterrа #110
...We observe two levels of selection here. Selection among different cell lineages within an individual affects the ability to form viable chromosome sets in gametes. Selection among individuals acts on …