Is evolution a universal acid against theism? permlink
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Check out the data posted by rikhurzen from the GSS....
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September 30, 2006
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:13 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:08 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:52 PM • 0 Comments •
September 29, 2006
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:33 AM • 12 Comments •
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:09 AM • 9 Comments •
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....
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:11 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:35 PM • 0 Comments •
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,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:25 AM • 13 Comments •
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