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January 27, 2007
What science fiction writer am I? permlink
Category: Blog
Pretty cool. Via Afarensis. I am:Arthur C. ClarkeWell known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. Which science fiction writer are you?...
Posted by Razib at 5:36 PM • 13 Comments
January 26, 2007
Anisogamy permlink
Category: Evolution
Matt has a "Basic Concepts" post on Anisogamy....
Posted by Razib at 6:08 PM • 1 Comments
January 24, 2007
Basic concepts - linkage disequilibrium permlink
Category: Genetics
Thinking about it today, I realized there is a "Basic Concept" that I think I should touch upon, and that is linkage disequilibrium (LD). Notice the wiki link? I do that whenever I mention LD because it is such an...
Posted by Razib at 11:35 AM • 14 Comments
Species permlink
Category: Blog
John Wilkins has a long post on species concepts....
Posted by Razib at 1:16 AM • 3 Comments
January 23, 2007
Basic concepts - 8th grade math permlink
Category:
Many fellow ScienceBloggers are doing a "Basic Concepts" series. Here are some of them: Mean, Median, and Mode Normal Distribution Force Gene Central Dogma of Molecular Biology Evolution Clade Instead of thinking up something new I've decided to repost a...
Posted by Razib at 11:03 AM • 8 Comments
January 22, 2007
W.D. Hamilton & group selection & ideology permlink
Category: Evolution
My post below, Group selection & the naturalistic fallacy, elicited some interesting comments. First, I mentinoed W.D. Hamilton's allusion to a relationship between fascism & group selection. Here is what he said: 'Liberal' thinkers should realize from the outset that...
Posted by Razib at 11:57 PM • 0 Comments
10 Questions for György Buzsáki permlink
Category: Biology
amnestic does 10 Questions for György Buzsáki....
Posted by Razib at 12:11 PM • 0 Comments
Genetic stochasticity & environments permlink
Category: Genetics
So I near the end of my survey of chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies.1 Today, we address environmental variation, but I think sometimes the end is the beginning, so I quote: Random environment models have many...
Posted by Razib at 10:34 AM • 7 Comments
January 21, 2007
Group selection & the naturalistic fallacy permlink
Category: Evolution
Over at Bora's place he talks about a paper on group selection. In regards to the scientific idea and its broad relevance to evolutionary biology, I am mildly skeptical. That being said, this comment drew my attention: While endorsing DS...
Posted by Razib at 6:38 PM • 8 Comments
January 20, 2007
Robert Trivers wins the Crafoord Prize permlink
Category: Genetics
A reader just informed me that Bob Trivers just won the Crafoord Prize in bioscience! For those who would like to become more familiar with Trivers' work, I highly recommend Natural Selection and Social Theory. Genes in Conflict is also...
Posted by Razib at 11:54 AM • 3 Comments
Sign up for A Week of Science permlink
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There is now a sign up page for A Week of Science. Basically I'll take the feeds and load them up on Justscience.net with Feedpress the day before the 5th. You can see the current list here. You can insert...
Posted by Razib at 12:12 AM • 0 Comments
January 18, 2007
Steve Weinberg's brilliant ignorance permlink
Category: Science
PZ and John have commented on a Steve Weinberg review of The God Delusion. This prompts me to offer up a cheap reflection which I've been meaning to air since watching Beyond Belief 2006, Steve Weinberg was, to my eye,...
Posted by Razib at 12:36 PM • 10 Comments
A week of Just Science, what it's about permlink
Category: Blog
RPM and Chris have hit most of the points in regards to the Just Science project. To be short, what it's not about is anti-science. Just one week, that's all. It certainly isn't about traffic or comment response. It isn't...
Posted by Razib at 12:06 AM • 0 Comments
January 17, 2007
Four Stone Hearth permlink
Category: Anthroplogy
Martin has Four Stone Hearth up, go check it out!...
Posted by Razib at 7:24 PM • 0 Comments
