Thanks for saying!

Thanks!

Oh my gosh, I know! The worst thing you could do is side-track theorists by fronting the language used for the theory itself, and it could start a chain reaction. But anyway, thanks for the comment.

Yeah man, I hear that! I'm originally from the high desert / sky islands of the San Gabriel Mtns of SoCal (Wrightwood). But now I've run away to green Japan.

Well maybe this video will help if you haven't come across it already, its what started me on my "journey" of this interesting story, pun intended lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6GvhJeEqrqXgbc

Thanks for saying that. If you can get a PDF or other digital version of the Italian original, you may be able to feed it into DeepL, a website that is surprisingly good at translation.

That's fascinating, I hadn't heard that. I'm no expert, but in general, I support the hypothesis that large African herbivores (cf. zebra) have evolved to be more weary of humans than their Eurasian counterparts (horse). That difference would have had to occur on the scale of 100k years rather than 1m years. Should we interpret that as a Lamarckian adaptation, though? Not sure. But it sounds like you are saying domestication triggered that change in foals. That means the scale is 500 generations or so. Depending on your definition of Lamarckian, that could really fit.

@@BabelRedeemed I think the condition for Lamarck to work remains to be worked out but yes many many generations. There are also experiments that lab mice can do labyrinths faster now than their great great.... grandparents

Wow, thanks so much for saying that! I'll keep your comments in mind, as I've been meaning to make an updated version of this.

Thanks, I just try to be clear for non-native speakers.

Thanks for saying, and for asking. I put a link in the description from www.unep.org, but now I see that it is broken... I suppose it is still somewhere on that website. Sorry about that.

Yeah, you're right; I made this some years back. I've got better equipment now.

Thank you for saying that!

Thanks for that!

Wow, no-one's ever asked me that before! Here, find the MP4 and related images: drive.google.com/open?id=1J-iVCq3nnfDMTXUJw_ReWXTrnqnrZEr- Are you planning to share it with a class?

Thanks for that insightful criticism. That is a wonderful comment. Yes, in fact I teach English to international veterinary medicine PhD candidates. You are correct in saying that certain genres or registers wouldn't be well served by this tool; it's much more suited for academics than artists. Here I am talking to non-native English users who have complex ideas and hypotheses in their head in their first language and need to get the word out to the general world readership. For your first few manuscripts, I'd highly suggest imitating those who came before you. When in the video I said something like 'high frequency means high correctness' I could have been more nuanced to say something like 'high frequencies in preposition usage and verb collocations means you have a high chance of writing an intelligible paper which will transmit your research'.

​@@BabelRedeemed Aha! Well, that's admirable work. And yes, of course you're right. Sometimes i find myself compelled to comment without having done enough research to know for certain if it's warranted. Thanks for taking my undue criticism in stride. Now i can't help but imagine what a colorful trainwreck it would be if an academic scientific paper were written in the style of HP Lovecraft. Hah! Well, all the best to you! <3

Thank you for offering what I'm sure is the most profound and socially impactful thing you’ll ever contribute to the world in general. You’ve done it all. What’s next?

You are right! But take a more careful look at the title of the vid.

Good question! Many didn't survive, but it's hard to notice because they died before they had children. That means their genes weren't passed on. In any epidemic, however, there will be some percentage who survive. And their kids will inherit genes and behaviors that allow them to survive. This is also connected to the reason why New World peoples (Native Americans) suffered so severely against Old World (European) infectious diseases; they had evolved in an environment free of most of these diseases since most infectious sickness in humans is ultimately caused by livestock animals. But the only large domesticated animals in the New World were turkeys in Central America and llamas and alpacas in South America.

Thanks for the feedback, and your kind comment!