One of your questions was:
(2) Is there a "purpose" to having different eye and hair color?
Most of the world's population has dark hair and brown eyes, so one could
start by looking at the distribution of non-dark hair and eyes. Blonde and
red hair both occur historically at northern/western european geographies
and they also co-occur with pale skin. So they may confer some of the same
advantages in terms of vit D production at northern climates, or they could
be characteristics that don't have an adaptive function but just genetically
got swept along with the pale skin. Without a lot of north-south movement
and intermixing, it is easy to see how they variants could be maintained in
the population. Whether it is advantageous to have hair and eye colour
different to the majority in one's own population is a different question,
but sexual selection could drive the maintenance of minority variants if so.
Sally Walters
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From: <tay...@sandiego.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:16 PM
Subject: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q
I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to
respond again until tomorrow.
And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or
even possible that eye color changes across the life span?
I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a
background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational
practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and
literature?
If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by
the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published
research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of
psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the
psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to
fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any
attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions
and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to
pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in
the public eye, by doing so.
And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and
children........
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400
From: "William Scott" <wsc...@wooster.edu>
Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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<tay...@sandiego.edu> 10/21/09 3:04 PM >>>
... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments,
and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work?
And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too!
Bill Scott
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