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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
April 28, 2006
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 Khan at 7:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 Khan at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2006
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 Khan at 11:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 Khan at 4:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2006
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 Khan at 9:34 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 Khan at 4:28 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2006
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 Khan at 8:35 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 Khan at 2:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2006
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 Khan at 6:49 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 Khan at 3:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
