Men, bishops and apes

Social Groups of Monkeys, Apes and Men

Sociologists and anthropologists recognise the 'face to face' group ?in which all the individuals meet each other in the course of the day's activities?as a primary group in all types of human society. This kind of group is similar to that which exists in sub-human primates. In a small human society, relationships tend to be personal and it matters a great deal more who a man is than what he do...

Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa

561 Plague On Us can not but make for humility, for it shows us that when accounts are balanced there seems, despite all those things which we believe medical science has accomplished, to be a deficit of major proportions. "We have not rid the world entirely of any single infection known to man, and some we have not yet begun to fight. As for the premises for action, we do not yet know why one ...

APES Report: APES-20-2000 Inside MAC and FC

We report on the behaviour during search of MAC and FC, the two most popular algorithms for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP’s). We do so on random CSP’s and a jobshop scheduling problem. We make a number of observations based on our experiments. First, MAC can undergo a ‘propagation cascade’ in which the size of the problem collapses dramatically at a certain depth in search and a...

Apes, lice and prehistory

Although most epidemic human infectious diseases are caused by recently introduced pathogens, cospeciation of parasite and host is commonplace for endemic infections. Occasional host infidelity, however, provides the endemic parasite with an opportunity to survive the potential extinction of its host. Such infidelity may account for the survival of certain types of human lice, and it is current...

Advocacy: bishops press for immigration reform.