FEST Writing Group

Women After All Stephanie Ferrera I am reading Melvin Konner’s new book, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy. As the title suggests, Konner has a point to make. He introduces it with his opening statement: “This is a book with a very simple argument: women are not equal.

Thoughts on altruism Stephanie Ferrera David Sloan Wilson has published a new book: Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others. I haven’t yet read it, but I did read H. Allen Orr’s review in New York Review of Books, March 19, 2015. Orr begins: “Altruism may seem a good thing—unless you.

Greetings festwg members, I am attaching a word document that is the abstract of a presentation for the Spring meeting of the Bowen Center on Differentiation of Self. Please consider the questions at the end. Thanks. Differentiation of self in regressing systems Stephanie J. Ferrera, MSW Murray Bowen observed that human systems, at times of increasing anxiety, become vulnerable.

Emotional climate change in a baboon troop In 1978, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky began spending summers each year in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya studying and “virtually living with” a troop of free-ranging savanna baboons. He named them the Forest Troop. His early research focused on the relationship between social rank and stress-related.

I will attach a 10-page Word document. This is an unfinished paper being prepared for the Chicago symposium in May.Evolution and Bowen Theory 2.

To: FESTWG From: Stephanie This is a 6 page word document that introduces the concepts that I am developing into what may or may not result in a book. For years I have been reading the literature of evolution, biology, and related sciences, trying to see how that data and that way of thinking.