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September 30, 2006

Is evolution a universal acid against theism?  permlink

Category: Creationism

Check out the data posted by rikhurzen from the GSS....

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What do Y & mtDNA tell us?  permlink

Category: Genetics

RPM has a post up about Y and mtDNA lineages, and what they can (or can't) tell us about demographic history. I'm pretty skeptical myself about the broad and detailed deep time inferences some make with these markers (see The...

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Culture naturally  permlink

Category: Psychology

Back in August AlphaPsy had series of posts on 'naturalism' in the context of culture. Check them out! (links below) I strongly believe it is important to discuss human affairs with a multi-disciplinary lens, too often the public discourse is...

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Fisher and population size  permlink

Category: Genetics

One of the major dialogues in evolutionary genetics in the 20th century was that between R.A. Fisher and Sewall Wright. It is so seminal that the term Fisher-Wright controversy is often used. One of the major points of disagreemant between...

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September 29, 2006

Katz tale  permlink

Category: Blog

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Tall, to short, to tall (again)  permlink

Category: Evolution

Dienekes reports on a paper which chronicles the change height of "Europeans" over the last 20,000 years ago. Anthropologist Henry Harpending once told me that when the first modern humans arrived in European 40-30 thousand years ago they were as...

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Discrete continuity in genetics  permlink

Category: Genetics

In the post below on skin color within a multiracial family I made the point that genetics is inherited in a discrete fashion. In the post-genomic era, or even the post-DNA era, this seems intuitively clear. Our genetic sequence, our...

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September 28, 2006

Genetics reference  permlink

Category: Genetics

Check out this Mendelian Genetics reference site, which has an enormous catalogue of links. It doesn't just talk about Punnett Squares, there's also a link to a simple introduction to the chi square test....

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September 27, 2006

Brown gaucho & Tangled Bank #63  permlink

Category: Biology

Our old friend Brown Gaucho is hosting Tangled Bank #63. I enjoyed his post, The importance of evolution in medicine. BG is a primatologist-turned-med student, so he knows of what he speaks. But, I do have to take some issue...

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Can you tell if you're black or white?  permlink

Category: Genetics

Last winter a story surfaced about "black" and "white" twins. As you can see by the picture the main difference is in skin color, though genetically full sisters (fraternal twins), one twin has the complexion typical of a northern European,...

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