Wolf brains produce way more adrenaline than dog brains on a regular basis. That is one reason why wolves are likely to be far less predictably docile, even if you raise one from a pup onward. That is why you still have to be careful around a tame wolf.
Domestication is different than taming. Taming involves conditioning an animal’s behavior; domestication involves breeding actual genetic/physiological changes.
Do we have evidence that whites and non-whites have different average levels of certain neurotransmitters? Are there actual gross physiological differences in white and non-write brains? If so, then there is more than just social-construction at work. If not, then social-construction is all there is.
I don’t think all of this is just a semantic game.
Do we have evidence that whites and non-whites have different average levels of certain neurotransmitters? Are there actual gross physiological differences in white and non-write brains? If so, then there is more than just social-construction at work. If not, then social-construction is all there is.
Well we certainly have evidence that they behave differently. I don’t know about neurotransmitters (I’m guessing the experiment hasn’t been performed, imagine trying to get approval for it), also I don’t see why the exact details of the causal mechanism matter here.
The experiments have been performed. For instance, this dopamine receptor has a single nucleotide polymorphism that emerged in the middle east 40000 years ago (and therefore has very different prevalence across ethnic groups) and causes ADHD. There is a just-so evolutionary argument that states that as humanity spread out from Africa, novelty-seeking becomes advantageous as people adapt to new environments. This novelty-seeking is then pathologised as ADHD in the modern world.
Wolf brains produce way more adrenaline than dog brains on a regular basis. That is one reason why wolves are likely to be far less predictably docile, even if you raise one from a pup onward. That is why you still have to be careful around a tame wolf.
Domestication is different than taming. Taming involves conditioning an animal’s behavior; domestication involves breeding actual genetic/physiological changes.
Do we have evidence that whites and non-whites have different average levels of certain neurotransmitters? Are there actual gross physiological differences in white and non-write brains? If so, then there is more than just social-construction at work. If not, then social-construction is all there is.
I don’t think all of this is just a semantic game.
Well we certainly have evidence that they behave differently. I don’t know about neurotransmitters (I’m guessing the experiment hasn’t been performed, imagine trying to get approval for it), also I don’t see why the exact details of the causal mechanism matter here.
The experiments have been performed. For instance, this dopamine receptor has a single nucleotide polymorphism that emerged in the middle east 40000 years ago (and therefore has very different prevalence across ethnic groups) and causes ADHD. There is a just-so evolutionary argument that states that as humanity spread out from Africa, novelty-seeking becomes advantageous as people adapt to new environments. This novelty-seeking is then pathologised as ADHD in the modern world.
Because they could allow us to predict which kinds of interventions would have which effects.