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October 31, 2006
I endorse Shelly Batts for the blog scholarship permlink
Category: Blog
Vote early and vote often for Shelley Batts. Shelley makes her pitch here. Shelley is a hard working graduate student with moral fiber. Q: Is it permissable for believers to aid a kuffar in amassing riches? A: It is permissable...
Posted by Razib at 6:08 PM • 7 Comments
Introgression redux permlink
Category: Genetics
I was going to continue with my review of chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies today, but time does not permit. This section was to focus on the orgination of advantageous mutations from the stochastic cauldron of...
Posted by Razib at 10:35 AM • 0 Comments
October 30, 2006
Promiscuous Girl permlink
Category: Blog
O believers! If kuffar flesh is beauteous it is permissable for the faithful to partake of it without nikah.... Q: Is a beauteous kuffar female permissable or unclean? A: Lo! A beauteous kuffar female is both permissable and unclean! If...
Posted by Razib at 11:32 PM • 14 Comments
John Derbyshire "leaves" Christianity permlink
Category: Blog
My friend John Derbyshire chronicles his spiritual devolution over the past few years.......
Posted by Razib at 3:04 PM • 4 Comments
A resolution to the molecular clock debates? permlink
Category: Genetics
Heterogeneous Genomic Molecular Clocks in Primates: The rate at which mutations accumulate in a genome, referred as a "molecular clock," is an instrumental tool in molecular evolution and phylogenetics. Different types of mutations occur via distinctive molecular pathways. In particular,...
Posted by Razib at 10:05 AM • 4 Comments
October 29, 2006
You only go extinct once.... permlink
Category: Genetics
Assume that you have a new mutation, totally novel. What's its probability of going extinct in one generation? That is, it doesn't get passed on.... Consider, you have a population of N individuals. Fix the population size across nonoverlapping generations....
Posted by Razib at 2:51 AM • 16 Comments
True unbeliever permlink
Category: Religion
The Washington Post has a fun profile of Sam Harris. This part cracked me up: "If the Koran were exactly the same," he said, toward the end of the night, "and there were just one line added to it, and...
Posted by Razib at 1:23 AM • 43 Comments
October 28, 2006
Ask a ScienceBlogger - Underfunded? permlink
Category: Blog
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger: What's the most underfunded scientific field that shouldn't be underfunded?... I'll say old fashioned biological anthropology. There's a reason that a pall was cast over thsi field after World War II, but we need to...
Posted by Razib at 4:32 AM • 4 Comments
Godless professors? permlink
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There is a working paper out which reports on the nature of the religiousness of the professoriate. Some data of interest.... * Proportion of professors with "No religion" - 31% (vs. ~10% for the general public) "I don't believe in...
Posted by Razib at 3:44 AM • 9 Comments
Ivory & ebony, twins again...and again... permlink
Category: Genetics
I noticed today that I was receiving a lot of search engine queries for black and white twins. Well, I have posted on it several times, but I thought it was a bit much, so I checked the news, and...
Posted by Razib at 10:05 AM • 2 Comments
October 26, 2006
Decomposition of the RNC Harold Ford Jr. ad permlink
Category: Politics
Check the comments interspersed.......
Posted by Razib at 10:58 PM • 18 Comments
Genetics of hair color permlink
Category: Genetics
A reader emailed me asking about the genetics of hair color. Since I've discussed the topic before I simply pointed them to the query of the topic on my other blog. But, I thought it might be good to directly...
Posted by Razib at 10:51 AM • 8 Comments
Religion, good and bad and all that permlink
Category: Culture
John Wilkins has a good post on religion, I tend to agree with its general thrust though I might quibble with details. Not being gifted with much marginal time right now, a few quick thoughts: 1) I believe that institutional...
Posted by Razib at 1:05 AM • 9 Comments
October 25, 2006
John Maynard Smith permlink
Category: Genetics
One of the things I regret during my tenure blogging is that I started doing "10 questions" too late to get in touch with John Maynard Smith. If you haven't, I highly recommend this interview by Robert Wright from a...
Posted by Razib at 11:51 AM • 5 Comments
Four Stone Hearth permlink
Category: Blog
Four Stone Hearth, the Anthropology Carnival, starts at Anthropology.net today....
Posted by Razib at 2:44 AM • 0 Comments
