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July 31, 2006
Introgression in wolves & dogs permlink
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...
Posted by Razib at 10:25 PM • 0 Comments
All the Science Blogs fit to blog (about) permlink
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 at 10:12 PM • 2 Comments
Baruch Spinoza, the first of "us" permlink
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 at 10:04 AM • 7 Comments
July 27, 2006
Introgression related papers permlink
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 at 11:11 PM • 1 Comments
SEED on grandmothers permlink
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 at 10:42 PM • 1 Comments
Doing your homework permlink
Category: Blog
Below the fold, readers, this is what I mean by doing your technical homework....
Posted by Razib at 8:09 PM • 4 Comments
July 26, 2006
Introgression, what's in a word? permlink
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 at 10:56 PM • 2 Comments
2 X 2 Design (Adoption + IQ) permlink
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 at 10:22 PM • 0 Comments
Limelight on a stupid commenter permlink
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 at 9:31 PM • 34 Comments
July 25, 2006
Logical consistency is irreligious permlink
Category: Religion
Jason says in a post which addresses the religion & science issue: ...Either the Bible is the holy and inerrant word of God, or it is an ancient document written by people with no more claim to authority than any...
Posted by Razib at 9:42 PM • 16 Comments
July 24, 2006
I think Stephen Jay Gould would be appalled permlink
Category: Genetics
I am a little unsure whether this article in The Washington Post titled And the Evolutionary Beat Goes On . . ., beginning with the sentence "Stephen Jay Gould would have been pleased," is a subtle joke or not. The...
Posted by Razib at 10:35 PM • 16 Comments
10 Questions with Charles Murray permlink
Category: Blog
Over at GNXP Classic our resident virgin Matt McIntosh poses 10 questions for Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve....
Posted by Razib at 9:00 AM • 6 Comments
July 23, 2006
Fisher, Wright and evolution of dominance permlink
Category: Genetics
Robert Skipper has an enormous post on R.A. Fisher & Sewall Wright's theories of dominance. I think Wright was more in the right on this issue, remember, it is easier to break (lose function) than make (gain function)....
Posted by Razib at 4:26 PM • 0 Comments
Politics & foreign policy permlink
Category: Politics
More unsolicited opinion on current events from me over at Nation Building....
Posted by Razib at 2:44 PM • 0 Comments
July 22, 2006
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, preface & chapter 1 permlink
Category: Genetics
I have mentioned a few times that I am re-reading The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R.A. Fisher. I read it a few years back when I didn't know anything about evolutionary theory, so I believe this run through...
Posted by Razib at 6:13 PM • 0 Comments
