Date: 1/03/2015 21:02:51
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686429
Subject: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

I’ve found copying the lip exercise that orang’s and chimps practice is an enjoyable exercise. Orangutang in particular exhibit highly developed lip musculature and a particularly peaceful social outlook.

Subsequently to the title question, is social development a more apllicable measure of IQ than comprehension of abstracted scales and guages and the relationship of these to the phenomena of nature?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:19:03
From: Arts
ID: 686441
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Orang utans are solitary animals. Usually one male will oversee an area containing females (a harem if you like), but they prefer to only come together to mate.
As such they haven’t developed the fine facial muscles for communication (which is why people often say they look ‘sad’ – they aren’t sad… that’s how they look)

As for the lips.. they will ‘kiss’ and hiss at you as a sign of dominance. They are not ice ‘kisses’ that is their first ‘warning’ as such.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:20:48
From: Arts
ID: 686442
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Chimpanzees, on the other hand, are highly social creatures and enjoy facial expressions similar to humans, thier lip movements are motivated by completely different reasons

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:21:05
From: Arts
ID: 686443
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

so… no

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:22:25
From: Bubblecar
ID: 686447
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Many quite primitive critters have highly developed lips.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:27:00
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686451
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


so… no

yes the title question should have been posed as does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain. A comparison for this would be with dolphins. They are social but involve violence in their social interactions. Within the ape family there is a greater range of facial development. I am isolating lip exercise as a factor that minimises violence in social interaction. Your comparisons are not concise without greater examination.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:30:22
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686456
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Bubblecar said:


Many quite primitive critters have highly developed lips.

!http://i2.cdnds.net/13/13/618×668/fish-mick-jagger-kips.jpg

Which is why I introduced dolphin and whale as mammals.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:33:15
From: Arts
ID: 686461
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

“does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain”

no.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:33:38
From: Bubblecar
ID: 686463
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

In answer to your second question, it’s generally agreed that increasingly complex social interaction was one of the key catalysts for the development of more powerful human brains.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:34:48
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686465
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


“does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain”

no.

data?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:37:28
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686467
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


“does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain connected to resolution conflict”

That would reflect a more accurate assessment of my question.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:37:35
From: Arts
ID: 686468
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

in the two species you named in the op, both use their lips in ‘similar’ way but for very different reasons due to their social constructs. One is very social, the other not at all.. but they both move their lips.

then you introduced violence in dolphins for some reason….

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:37:57
From: Arts
ID: 686469
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


Arts said:

“does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain connected to resolution conflict”

That would reflect a more accurate assessment of my question.

ok

no

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:39:45
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686471
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


Postpocelipse said:

Arts said:

“does lip exercise develop social areas of the brain connected to resolution conflict”

That would reflect a more accurate assessment of my question.

ok

no

bullshit. how have you measured that. The species that has learnt the best ways to kiss has dominated the planet!

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:40:22
From: party_pants
ID: 686472
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

The BBC Horizon program did a reasonable doco on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XxjJYuV7I&list=PLB20439E638039F36

It’s about an hour long, but very interesting. Part 2 deals with all attempts at training apes to speak and how they failed. Seems we humans have a gene for it, and other animals don’t

I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:40:45
From: Arts
ID: 686473
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

chimpanzees participate in organised violence

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:42:58
From: furious
ID: 686476
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Like an early form of cockney…

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:43:29
From: Arts
ID: 686477
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

giraffes have very agile lips with a lot of control, they participate in acts of dominance in a violent manner

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:43:55
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686478
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

party_pants said:


The BBC Horizon program did a reasonable doco on the subject.

I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Obvious area to measure this question from as regard evolutionary origin of language. Does the impulse to kiss during mating maximise the motivation for language construction?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:45:03
From: furious
ID: 686479
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

What?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:45:47
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686480
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

furious said:

  • I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Like an early form of cockney…

early? more like genre specific form of cockney. You’d probably call it Python Cocknee or something.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:46:43
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686482
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


giraffes have very agile lips with a lot of control, they participate in acts of dominance in a violent manner

they don’t cuddle or look at their partner either

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:46:46
From: Michael V
ID: 686483
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

furious said:

  • I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Like an early form of cockney…

Hahahahahahahahaha!

:) :)

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:50:01
From: party_pants
ID: 686484
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


party_pants said:

The BBC Horizon program did a reasonable doco on the subject.

I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Obvious area to measure this question from as regard evolutionary origin of language. Does the impulse to kiss during mating maximise the motivation for language construction?

No.The lips are only peripheral to language. I suggest you watch the program I posted. Is quite good and covers a lot of aspects of the subject. It explains a lot more than I can be bothered to type.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:51:03
From: Arts
ID: 686485
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:

bullshit. how have you measured that.

observation, lecture attendance and food interaction with orang utans for the last five years Having never come across a link such as this… not saying you are wrong.. if you can find some data supporting it, then I’d be interested to read it and, if plausible, change my mind..

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:52:06
From: Arts
ID: 686486
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


Arts said:

giraffes have very agile lips with a lot of control, they participate in acts of dominance in a violent manner

they don’t cuddle or look at their partner either

actually they are very gentle when trying to woo a mate… they even rub her genitals with their head horns to get her in the mood.. a sort of foreplay .. nice for her

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:52:22
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686487
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

party_pants said:


Postpocelipse said:

party_pants said:

The BBC Horizon program did a reasonable doco on the subject.

I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Obvious area to measure this question from as regard evolutionary origin of language. Does the impulse to kiss during mating maximise the motivation for language construction?

No.The lips are only peripheral to language. I suggest you watch the program I posted. Is quite good and covers a lot of aspects of the subject. It explains a lot more than I can be bothered to type.

But where is the point where language is most required to become an evolutionary necessity. Mating for humans has become enormously complex. Does that not draw a connection between language development and lip muscle complexities connection to brain development?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:53:15
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686488
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


Postpocelipse said:

bullshit. how have you measured that.

observation, lecture attendance and food interaction with orang utans for the last five years Having never come across a link such as this… not saying you are wrong.. if you can find some data supporting it, then I’d be interested to read it and, if plausible, change my mind..

this is no-specific to human development as the maximal expression not orangutan.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:53:32
From: Bubblecar
ID: 686490
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

furious said:

  • I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Like an early form of cockney…

Diabolical, it wasn’t ‘alf bleedin’ brass monkeys stuck in them caves all day with the narky ball and chain, they ‘ad to go the banter to stop goin’ barmy, know what I mean?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:54:26
From: party_pants
ID: 686491
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


party_pants said:

Postpocelipse said:

Obvious area to measure this question from as regard evolutionary origin of language. Does the impulse to kiss during mating maximise the motivation for language construction?

No.The lips are only peripheral to language. I suggest you watch the program I posted. Is quite good and covers a lot of aspects of the subject. It explains a lot more than I can be bothered to type.

But where is the point where language is most required to become an evolutionary necessity. Mating for humans has become enormously complex. Does that not draw a connection between language development and lip muscle complexities connection to brain development?

No. Not really.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:54:29
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686492
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


Postpocelipse said:

Arts said:

giraffes have very agile lips with a lot of control, they participate in acts of dominance in a violent manner

they don’t cuddle or look at their partner either

actually they are very gentle when trying to woo a mate… they even rub her genitals with their head horns to get her in the mood.. a sort of foreplay .. nice for her

Does lip sensitivity promote empathic behaviours. good way to put it.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:56:03
From: Michael V
ID: 686494
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


party_pants said:

Postpocelipse said:

Obvious area to measure this question from as regard evolutionary origin of language. Does the impulse to kiss during mating maximise the motivation for language construction?

No.The lips are only peripheral to language. I suggest you watch the program I posted. Is quite good and covers a lot of aspects of the subject. It explains a lot more than I can be bothered to type.

But where is the point where language is most required to become an evolutionary necessity. Mating for humans has become enormously complex. Does that not draw a connection between language development and lip muscle complexities connection to brain development?

Not necessarily.

Perhaps a pertinent question to ask might be: “Do any other animals kiss?” And then compare those results to the observations you have made, and the idea you have.

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:57:17
From: Arts
ID: 686499
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

wait.. did you just move the goal posts?

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Date: 1/03/2015 21:58:40
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686509
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Bubblecar said:


furious said:
  • I’d be interested to know at what level Neanderthals could use language.

Like an early form of cockney…

Diabolical, it wasn’t ‘alf bleedin’ brass monkeys stuck in them caves all day with the narky ball and chain, they ‘ad to go the banter to stop goin’ barmy, know what I mean?

Know what you mean? Where ya think I blimmin come from? “The future” you’re always talkin about? It’s a blimmin paradoxical impossibility I’ve telled ya! We will be here livin out of caves till the end’o tha blimmin universe. “You’ll” just have ta get used ta it.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:01:13
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686519
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


wait.. did you just move the goal posts?

yes I did not define the question functionally in the OP properly. The subsequent question supplied in the OP was the defining analysis to the title question.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:06:39
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686531
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


ChrispenEvan said:

dunno, but not all human societies have kissing as part of their interactions.

It just occurred to me that the need to describe an emotion might be a greater factor in language development than the need to communicate on other subjects. This might also be connected to the role of religion in language development and the origin of religion’s domination of the human psyche.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:08:17
From: Michael V
ID: 686535
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Michael V said:


Bubblecar said:


Well, there you go!

And Bonobos, too, apparently. They are supposed to be randy buggers too. You may have to read about these animals. (Both the fish and the bonobos.)

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:09:26
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686537
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Michael V said:


Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:


Well, there you go!

And Bonobos, too, apparently. They are supposed to be randy buggers too. You may have to read about these animals. (Both the fish and the bonobos.)

are they kissing or exchanging chemicals?

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:10:48
From: Dropbear
ID: 686542
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Well, there you go!

And Bonobos, too, apparently. They are supposed to be randy buggers too. You may have to read about these animals. (Both the fish and the bonobos.)

are they kissing or exchanging chemicals?

What’s the difference ?

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:14:18
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686548
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

Michael V said:

And Bonobos, too, apparently. They are supposed to be randy buggers too. You may have to read about these animals. (Both the fish and the bonobos.)

are they kissing or exchanging chemicals?

What’s the difference ?

coral spawn in the water …. the fish might be pre-emptive spawning to chemically commence the full biological process …. some fish have fish in their gullet as do some amphibians the mouth thing may not be human like at all.

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:14:55
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686550
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

Michael V said:

And Bonobos, too, apparently. They are supposed to be randy buggers too. You may have to read about these animals. (Both the fish and the bonobos.)

are they kissing or exchanging chemicals?

What’s the difference ?

Got it in one huh.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:16:51
From: Dropbear
ID: 686552
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Dropbear said:

monkey skipper said:

are they kissing or exchanging chemicals?

What’s the difference ?

coral spawn in the water …. the fish might be pre-emptive spawning to chemically commence the full biological process …. some fish have fish in their gullet as do some amphibians the mouth thing may not be human like at all.

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

Kissing can chemically commence the full biological process :)

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:17:34
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686553
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

that does not define the basis of the question of language development being motivated more by emotional description than technical.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:18:05
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686554
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

Dropbear said:

What’s the difference ?

coral spawn in the water …. the fish might be pre-emptive spawning to chemically commence the full biological process …. some fish have fish in their gullet as do some amphibians the mouth thing may not be human like at all.

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

Kissing can chemically commence the full biological process :)

perhaps but not kiising is sexual there are many plutonic occasions for kissing though as well

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:18:13
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686555
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

Dropbear said:

What’s the difference ?

coral spawn in the water …. the fish might be pre-emptive spawning to chemically commence the full biological process …. some fish have fish in their gullet as do some amphibians the mouth thing may not be human like at all.

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

Kissing can chemically commence the full biological process :)

I think. :D

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:19:51
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686557
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


monkey skipper said:

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

that does not define the basis of the question of language development being motivated more by emotional description than technical.

interpreting text was a late late late development and adaptation apparently not deemed crucial for survival then I would guess this has changed with further development of the modern human

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:20:06
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 686558
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Kissing can chemically commence the full biological process

this. pheromones.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:21:45
From: PermeateFree
ID: 686561
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

>>The most distinctive feature of the kissing gourami is its mouth. Other than being terminal (forward-facing) rather than superior (upward-facing) as in other gourami families, the kissing gourami’s mouth is highly protrusible as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth

>>The fish use their toothed lips to rasp algae from stones and other surfaces. This rasping action, which (to humans) looks superficially like kissing, is also used by males to challenge the dominancy of conspecifics.

>>Kissing gouramis are territorial; some are tolerant towards fish of similar size, but others will bully, chase, and torment, causing significant stress on tank mates. Male kissers will occasionally challenge each other; however, the “kissing” itself is never fatal, but the constant bullying can stress the other fish to death. They often do in fact kill other fish by sucking the mucus off of their skin as food, which opens the victim fish up to infections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gourami

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:22:16
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686562
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

chewing has a lot to do with the capacity to develop early muscles to move the mouth muscles to form sounds…I am guessing this point maybe relevant to some degree.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:22:20
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686563
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Postpocelipse said:

monkey skipper said:

humans don’t kiss for reproduction only for example

that does not define the basis of the question of language development being motivated more by emotional description than technical.

interpreting text was a late late late development and adaptation apparently not deemed crucial for survival then I would guess this has changed with further development of the modern human

yes exactly. If I’ve got you straight.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:23:48
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686567
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

PermeateFree said:


>>The most distinctive feature of the kissing gourami is its mouth. Other than being terminal (forward-facing) rather than superior (upward-facing) as in other gourami families, the kissing gourami’s mouth is highly protrusible as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth

>>The fish use their toothed lips to rasp algae from stones and other surfaces. This rasping action, which (to humans) looks superficially like kissing, is also used by males to challenge the dominancy of conspecifics.

>>Kissing gouramis are territorial; some are tolerant towards fish of similar size, but others will bully, chase, and torment, causing significant stress on tank mates. Male kissers will occasionally challenge each other; however, the “kissing” itself is never fatal, but the constant bullying can stress the other fish to death. They often do in fact kill other fish by sucking the mucus off of their skin as food, which opens the victim fish up to infections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gourami

that represents a social complex that avoids violence.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:25:32
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686569
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


chewing has a lot to do with the capacity to develop early muscles to move the mouth muscles to form sounds…I am guessing this point maybe relevant to some degree.

I get the flashback…….“chew your food 50 times each mouthfull”

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:25:47
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686570
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


chewing has a lot to do with the capacity to develop early muscles to move the mouth muscles to form sounds…I am guessing this point maybe relevant to some degree.

What we eat and have developed and evolved to cope to eat would be relevant. some apes use the lips to separate the skin from fruits and foods that they eat , for example. I am guessing our mouths discern what does or does not enter…

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:29:43
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686579
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


monkey skipper said:

chewing has a lot to do with the capacity to develop early muscles to move the mouth muscles to form sounds…I am guessing this point maybe relevant to some degree.

I get the flashback…….“chew your food 50 times each mouthfull”

it is well understood children who have difficulty transitioning from smooth foods to lumps and bumps often have speech delays…you need muscle control to form the actions for sounds as well as the auditory influences etc etc… before we ate meat and needed to tear meat from the bones our mouths and lips may have been forming and flexing differently.. apes and monkeys could be viewed for these differences.

to discern what went in mouthes keeps the species going (makes sense)

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:30:44
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686580
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Postpocelipse said:

monkey skipper said:

chewing has a lot to do with the capacity to develop early muscles to move the mouth muscles to form sounds…I am guessing this point maybe relevant to some degree.

I get the flashback…….“chew your food 50 times each mouthfull”

it is well understood children who have difficulty transitioning from smooth foods to lumps and bumps often have speech delays…you need muscle control to form the actions for sounds as well as the auditory influences etc etc… before we ate meat and needed to tear meat from the bones our mouths and lips may have been forming and flexing differently.. apes and monkeys could be viewed for these differences.

to discern what went in mouthes keeps the species going (makes sense)

of autism and all sorts of things I think.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:33:45
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686585
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


monkey skipper said:

Postpocelipse said:

I get the flashback…….“chew your food 50 times each mouthfull”

it is well understood children who have difficulty transitioning from smooth foods to lumps and bumps often have speech delays…you need muscle control to form the actions for sounds as well as the auditory influences etc etc… before we ate meat and needed to tear meat from the bones our mouths and lips may have been forming and flexing differently.. apes and monkeys could be viewed for these differences.

to discern what went in mouthes keeps the species going (makes sense)

of autism and all sorts of things I think.

not limited to….there are many children with speech delays and not necessarily experience life with symptoms that fit the profile of autism…..children with dyspraxia often experience auditory, speech and visual discrimination delays

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:37:31
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686590
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Postpocelipse said:

monkey skipper said:

it is well understood children who have difficulty transitioning from smooth foods to lumps and bumps often have speech delays…you need muscle control to form the actions for sounds as well as the auditory influences etc etc… before we ate meat and needed to tear meat from the bones our mouths and lips may have been forming and flexing differently.. apes and monkeys could be viewed for these differences.

to discern what went in mouthes keeps the species going (makes sense)

of autism and all sorts of things I think.

not limited to….there are many children with speech delays and not necessarily experience life with symptoms that fit the profile of autism…..children with dyspraxia often experience auditory, speech and visual discrimination delays

No I mean as an origin these things can be linked to the parts of the brain that are associated to chemical sensory processing.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:40:38
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686597
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:42:33
From: Dropbear
ID: 686601
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

She who has the most luscious lips wins

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:42:37
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686602
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

The requirement to describe the pheromones being exchanged was more complex than the ability to make sounds that indicated pleasure.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:43:02
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686604
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


monkey skipper said:

Postpocelipse said:

of autism and all sorts of things I think.

not limited to….there are many children with speech delays and not necessarily experience life with symptoms that fit the profile of autism…..children with dyspraxia often experience auditory, speech and visual discrimination delays

No I mean as an origin these things can be linked to the parts of the brain that are associated to chemical sensory processing.

ah….well in that sense yes. humans are purely sensory at birth and mouth objects to develop an understand of shape, texture and taste…the tongue touching objects mouthed can help form a picture of an object or the development of that region of the brain to develop that capacity

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:43:48
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686605
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

She who has the most luscious lips wins

I just figured out one of the swollen bit’s on a female Megamind.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:47:49
From: PermeateFree
ID: 686612
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


PermeateFree said:

>>The most distinctive feature of the kissing gourami is its mouth. Other than being terminal (forward-facing) rather than superior (upward-facing) as in other gourami families, the kissing gourami’s mouth is highly protrusible as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth

>>The fish use their toothed lips to rasp algae from stones and other surfaces. This rasping action, which (to humans) looks superficially like kissing, is also used by males to challenge the dominancy of conspecifics.

>>Kissing gouramis are territorial; some are tolerant towards fish of similar size, but others will bully, chase, and torment, causing significant stress on tank mates. Male kissers will occasionally challenge each other; however, the “kissing” itself is never fatal, but the constant bullying can stress the other fish to death. They often do in fact kill other fish by sucking the mucus off of their skin as food, which opens the victim fish up to infections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gourami

that represents a social complex that avoids violence.

That is as violent as those fish can get. That is NOT avoiding violence.

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:48:10
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686613
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


monkey skipper said:

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

The requirement to describe the pheromones being exchanged was more complex than the ability to make sounds that indicated pleasure.

I meant communication and replication of sounds identified to be a determined language within a human group…or decipherable sounds of some sort as animals still do and certainly primates whom have a species of monkey that are suggested to be the first attempting language similar to the suggested early human like noises/utterances or whatever

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:48:58
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686615
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

PermeateFree said:


Postpocelipse said:

PermeateFree said:

>>The most distinctive feature of the kissing gourami is its mouth. Other than being terminal (forward-facing) rather than superior (upward-facing) as in other gourami families, the kissing gourami’s mouth is highly protrusible as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth

>>The fish use their toothed lips to rasp algae from stones and other surfaces. This rasping action, which (to humans) looks superficially like kissing, is also used by males to challenge the dominancy of conspecifics.

>>Kissing gouramis are territorial; some are tolerant towards fish of similar size, but others will bully, chase, and torment, causing significant stress on tank mates. Male kissers will occasionally challenge each other; however, the “kissing” itself is never fatal, but the constant bullying can stress the other fish to death. They often do in fact kill other fish by sucking the mucus off of their skin as food, which opens the victim fish up to infections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gourami

that represents a social complex that avoids violence.

That is as violent as those fish can get. That is NOT avoiding violence.

do both swim away?

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:49:34
From: Michael V
ID: 686617
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Dropbear said:


monkey skipper said:

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

She who has the most luscious lips wins

Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes…

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:50:34
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686620
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Michael V said:


Dropbear said:

monkey skipper said:

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

She who has the most luscious lips wins

Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes…

golf chuckle

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:51:05
From: monkey skipper
ID: 686621
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Michael V said:


Dropbear said:

monkey skipper said:

My vote is diet needs plays the biggest role in lip development of a species but probably a dual diversification and/or adaptation was co-created that links with social/sexual experimentation .

She who has the most luscious lips wins

Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes…

settle petals

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Date: 1/03/2015 22:55:32
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686629
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

monkey skipper said:


Michael V said:

Dropbear said:

She who has the most luscious lips wins

Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes…

settle petals

You might assume the females of the species would develop a different complexity of language while the males were out pointing and frowning expressively with lots of head and handmovements. Back to topic and all.

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Date: 2/03/2015 05:33:53
From: transition
ID: 686701
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

>I’ve found copying the lip exercise that orang’s and chimps practice is an enjoyable exercise.

a related’n possibly interesting question
is of that inhibitory social dimension’n the mechanism
of the taboo re pulling faces do mention
seems powerful thing why is it this way do you reckon

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Date: 2/03/2015 08:02:11
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686725
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

transition said:


>I’ve found copying the lip exercise that orang’s and chimps practice is an enjoyable exercise.

a related’n possibly interesting question
is of that inhibitory social dimension’n the mechanism
of the taboo re pulling faces do mention
seems powerful thing why is it this way do you reckon

yeah I see what you mean

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Date: 2/03/2015 09:32:05
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 686764
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Bubblecar said:


Many quite primitive critters have highly developed lips.


How can you call that critter primitive?

It’s got four eyes.

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Date: 2/03/2015 09:33:29
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686767
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

The Rev Dodgson said:


Bubblecar said:

Many quite primitive critters have highly developed lips.

!http://i2.cdnds.net/13/13/618×668/fish-mick-jagger-kips.jpg

How can you call that critter primitive?

It’s got four eyes.

Spectacles are evidence of technology.

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Date: 2/03/2015 09:42:23
From: roughbarked
ID: 686770
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

‘We shaved our pubic hair: Read our lips: No Bush’

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:05:21
From: Arts
ID: 686779
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

I’m still ot eve exactly sure what the question is..

are you hypothesizing that animals with good lip control are ‘nicer’ to each other in sexual behaviour?

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:05:58
From: Arts
ID: 686780
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

grrrr

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:18:49
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686787
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


I’m still ot eve exactly sure what the question is..

are you hypothesizing that animals with good lip control are ‘nicer’ to each other in sexual behaviour?

I’m hypothesisng that the muscle most closely associated to hormone sensing are the lip muscles. This has played a role in the development of language that identifies emotional description as providing greater motivation to language construction than the requirement to discuss technical detail.

Thus the examination of a species lip complexity should be correlative to the dynamics of it’s social development.

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:26:30
From: Arts
ID: 686790
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


Arts said:

I’m still ot eve exactly sure what the question is..

are you hypothesizing that animals with good lip control are ‘nicer’ to each other in sexual behaviour?

I’m hypothesisng that the muscle most closely associated to hormone sensing are the lip muscles. This has played a role in the development of language that identifies emotional description as providing greater motivation to language construction than the requirement to discuss technical detail.

Thus the examination of a species lip complexity should be correlative to the dynamics of it’s social development.

check out flehmen response and vomeronasal organ

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:28:46
From: Aquila
ID: 686791
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Postpocelipse said:


I’ve found copying the lip exercise that orang’s and chimps practice is an enjoyable exercise. Orangutang in particular exhibit highly developed lip musculature and a particularly peaceful social outlook.
*chuckle
Giraffe’s and horses have quite dexterous lip muscles also

Postpocelipse said:


Subsequently to the title question, is social development a more aplicable measure of IQ than comprehension of abstracted scales and guages and the relationship of these to the phenomena of nature?

No idea.

btw, is 100 still the statistical norm for IQ

If human IQ is rising in the general population, you would expect the statistical average to rise also, yes/no?

I don’t think I’ve ever done an ‘official’ IQ test, I vaguely remember doing a test in early high school which may have been for IQ but can’t remember the details of it.
I believe there is more than one type of IQ test.

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:31:29
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 686792
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

vomeronasal organ

s that in frogs? i could look it up but i want to guess first. i know, pretty sure anyway, frogs have vomeral “teeth” (sp)

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:32:46
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 686793
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

right lots of mammals and vomerine teeth.close.

:-)

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:33:57
From: Aquila
ID: 686795
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


check out flehmen response and vomeronasal organ

wut?!
Can you speak-a dee Engrish, prease?

- _ -

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:34:42
From: Arts
ID: 686796
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Aquila said:


Arts said:

check out flehmen response and vomeronasal organ

wut?!
Can you speak-a dee Engrish, prease?

- _ -

I am… just type them into google and prepare to be amazed

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:37:05
From: Aquila
ID: 686797
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


Aquila said:

Arts said:

check out flehmen response and vomeronasal organ

wut?!
Can you speak-a dee Engrish, prease?

- _ -

I am… just type them into google and prepare to be amazed

yeah right-e-o……after I make a cup of tea

lol

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Date: 2/03/2015 10:37:05
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 686798
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

Arts said:


Aquila said:

Arts said:

check out flehmen response and vomeronasal organ

wut?!
Can you speak-a dee Engrish, prease?

- _ -

I am… just type them into google and prepare to be amazed

or highlight and hit “search google for”. Thanks for the ref Arts. Entirely appropriate. :)

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Date: 2/03/2015 14:17:39
From: SCIENCE
ID: 686982
Subject: re: Does lip muscle development indicate social development in a species?

no

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