Commentary on Daly & Egan (2017): Intelligence, education and addiction

Evolutionary analyses of human behaviour: a commentary on Daly & Wilson

In a recent Animal Behaviour review, Daly & Wilson (1999, hereafter D&W) present a stimulating, but in important ways misleading, account of the history and present state of evolutionary analyses of human behaviour. Concerned that those not familiar with this research will be misled by D&W’s account, we offer the following commentary. We wish to make three main points: (1) D&W’s account is heav...

Commentary: Height and intelligence.

In 1892, WT Porter published a study of 33 500 students entitled ‘The physical basis of precocity and dullness’ in which he reported that taller students performed better academically than did shorter students of the same age.1 Since then many studies in developed and developing countries have shown that children who are shorter or whose linear growth is retarded tend to gain lower scores in te...

Commentary: education, education, education.

Selective review and commentary on emerging pharmacotherapies for opioid addiction

Pharmacotherapies for opioid addiction under active development in the US include lofexidine (primarily for managing withdrawal symptoms) and Probuphine®, a distinctive mode of delivering buprenorphine for six months, thus relieving patients, clinicians, and regulatory personnel from most concerns about diversion, misuse, and unintended exposure in children. In addition, two recently approved f...

Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI 2017)

Trusted Autonomy (TA) is the wider scientific endeavour to establish the groundwork and basic research in science and engineering required to develop Trusted Autonomous Systems [2]. Autonomous Systems are leaving the laboratory environment. Will they be used? Will they be safe? Are they ready for a harsh unpredictable environment? Are they ready to interact with humans? Can they understand huma...