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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
July 31, 2006
Category: Genetics
Apropos of our discussion of evolution and dogs, and introgression, here is a new paper I stumbled upon in Molecular Ecology, Detecting introgressive hybridization between free-ranging domestic dogs and wild wolves (Canis lupus) by admixture linkage disequilibrium analysis. Linkage disequilibrium...
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Category: Blog
Don't have time to read all the Science Blogs? Don't worry, Bora's put together a literal tapas of selections, part I, part II, part III and part IV....
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Alex points me to this Rebecca Goldstein op-ed in The New York Times marking the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza. I am actually reading Goldstein's biography of Spinoza, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, and just finished Matthew...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:04 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2006
July 27, 2006
Category: Genetics
I suspect the basic general process of introgression is clear to most of you, though I will get back to it soon. But here are some papers with candidate genes (click "related" for more references): RRM2P4, dystrophin, xp21.1 and 17q21.31....
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
Seed has a piece on the discoveries relating to menopause and its importance to the "Grandmother Hypothesis." Unlike male decline in fertility menopause is a specific and deliberate sequence of proactive processes by the female body to shut down reproductive...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blog
Below the fold, readers, this is what I mean by doing your technical homework....
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July 26, 2006
Category: Genetics
Here is the definition from Wiki: Introgression is a term used in genetics, particularly plant genetics, to describe the movement of a gene from one species into the gene pool of another by backcrossing an interspecific hybrid with one of...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
Since Jonah posted on the French IQ study profiled in The New York Times Magazine, I thought I'd point to an analysis of the data by a co-thug over at GNXP Classic. Warning, if 2 X 2 ANOVA bores you,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
Update: It maybe that "idiot commenter" speaks English as a second language , and so was not expressing his skepticism with sufficient nuance for my taste. That being said, this post stands as a warning to those who would waste...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:31 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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