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April 28, 2006
Is Mormonism relatively weird or absolutely weird??? permlink
Category: Religion
There's a hilarious, and often thoughtful, comment thread over at The American Scene. Ross Douthat is a Roman Catholic, and many of his readers are serious intellectual Christians. So, I am always interested when they object to the bizarre and...
Posted by Razib at 7:00 PM • 7 Comments
Meow Friday permlink
Category: Blog
The lion roars...by the way, in case anyone cared, my evil black cat is only up to three birds this spring. I think the worst is over. Update: More cat below the fold....
Posted by Razib at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments
April 27, 2006
The flood of selection rises permlink
Category: Genetics
Over at John Hawks, Has the dam broken on mtDNA selection?. I don't know if this matters that much scientifically since non-human phylogeography tends to be more cautious than the field of historical human population genetics, but it matters a...
Posted by Razib at 11:20 PM • 5 Comments
HIV and human variation permlink
Category: Genetics
There is a preprint in the website of The American Journal of Human Genetics titled "Genetic variation in the CCL18 - CCL3 - CCL4 chemokine gene cluster influences HIV-1 transmission and AIDS disease progression." The title is a mouthful, but...
Posted by Razib at 4:02 AM • 1 Comments
April 26, 2006
Native American HLAs, part II permlink
Category: Genetics
Greg Cochran's comment below is worth turning into a post: There's more to it than that. Tribes often have extremely limited HLA variation, contain only a small subset of the variation that you see in a wider set of Amerindians....
Posted by Razib at 9:34 PM • 9 Comments
Induction, deduction and abduction.... permlink
Category: Science
Evolgen says: Let's focus on two things: the hypothetical deductive method and essential information that you must know to be able to read the science section of a newspaper. Hm. Amen. Sort of. Scientists in many fields needed to be...
Posted by Razib at 4:28 AM • 8 Comments
April 25, 2006
The First Human permlink
Category: Evolution
The San Jose Mercury News has a review up of Ann Gibbons' The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. It concludes: But too many pieces are still missing from the puzzle -- including fossils of the ancestors...
Posted by Razib at 8:35 PM • 8 Comments
One founding for Native Americans permlink
Category: Genetics
Earlier this week I hinted that I had a priori genetic reasons for being skeptical of a "two wave" theory for the peopling of the New World. Well, I was going to do some literature searches and slap something together...
Posted by Razib at 2:01 AM • 3 Comments
April 24, 2006
Unity in diversity, last response to John Wilkins permlink
Category: Genetics
John put up his last thoughts on race, and Evolgen chimed in with his ruminations. First, nice exchange. Quick points.......
Posted by Razib at 6:49 PM • 5 Comments
Chimpanzees attack a taxi & kill a driver! permlink
Category: Anthroplogy
Check out John Hawks' commentary on this story about chimpanzees attacking a taxi and killing the driver. Never forget that we are a relatively gracile species....
Posted by Razib at 3:32 PM • 3 Comments
April 23, 2006
I say "race" and you say "population substructure" permlink
Category: Genetics
John responds to the "race" response from Matt & I. I'm not interested in making a point-by-point response to the response because I don't think the "objective" difference in opinion is that great, rather, it seems to be that we...
Posted by Razib at 5:50 PM • 6 Comments
April 22, 2006
Race permlink
Category: Genetics
John Wilkins has a post on race where he expresses skepticism about its biological reality. He comment was in response to a post on my other blog (by another individual), but I'll stand by it. I've talked abut race in...
Posted by Razib at 8:27 PM • 7 Comments
April 21, 2006
Living Neandertals & another idea about the Hobbits permlink
Category: Evolution
Just a note for those of you who don't read my other weblog, Greg Cochran has two new ideas that we're trying to guess at. First, he's got a new theory about the origin/evolution about the Hobbits of Flores. Second,...
Posted by Razib at 11:14 PM • 7 Comments
Religious intolerance in the USA permlink
Category: Religion
How deep do the seams of tolerance run in this country? Sometimes you wonder...ultimately, I'm pessimistic about the human love of liberty. I tend to agree with Matt McIntosh that to some extent American defense of individual freedoms is based...
Posted by Razib at 6:10 PM • 9 Comments
Friday cat picture permlink
Category: Blog
Check out the tail, Agnostic.......
Posted by Razib at 1:06 PM • 7 Comments
April 20, 2006
Bayesian Estimation of the Timing and Severity of a Population Bottleneck from Ancient DNA permlink
Category: Genetics
Check out this cool paper in PLOS Genetics: In this first application of the approximate Bayesian computation approach using the serial coalescent, we demonstrated the estimation of historical demographic parameters from ancient DNA. We estimated the timing and severity of...
Posted by Razib at 10:25 PM • 4 Comments
