Gene Expression
Archives for April, 2007
Less blog…for now
Posted by Razib Khan on April 30, 2007 Below is why I haven’t been blogging much….
Changes @ ScienceBlogs
Posted by Razib Khan on April 30, 2007 Today we debuted the Denialism Blog, while David Dobbs of Smooth Pebbles bids farewell to ScienceBlogs. David offers cogent rationales for why he decided to leave ScienceBlogs (the proximate reason is that he just isn’t posting much as far as bloggers go). One thing to note that is I don’t think a blog is really…
Round-eyed Chinese?
Posted by Razib Khan on April 26, 2007 Via Dienekes, a new possible historical genetic story on the horizon: the extent of “European”-origin settlers in pre-modern China. The biography of the individual sequenced: Yu Hong (d. 592 [C.E.]) was a high-ranking member of a community of Sogdians who had settled on the northern border of China at the beginning of the fourth century.…
ScienceBlogger threatend with legal action vs. Fair Use
Posted by Razib Khan on April 25, 2007 Final Update: Victory Day! In response to Shelley’s request I’ve removed the text of the original email.
Erick Trinkaus on Neandertal Admixture
Posted by Razib Khan on April 24, 2007 Erick Trinkaus has a new article in PNAS, European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals: A consideration of the morphological aspects of the earliest modern humans in Europe (more than ~33,000 B.P.) and the subsequent Gravettian human remains indicates that they possess an anatomical pattern congruent with the autapomorphic (derived) morphology of…
Immune to missionaries
Posted by Razib Khan on April 24, 2007 The April 16th issue of The New Yorker had an article by John Colapinto, The puzzling language of an Amazon tribe. It’s in print, so I can’t post it, but the short of it is that the tribe might lack recursion, a hammer blow to Chomskyan universal grammar. Overall the tribe seems to have a…
Levels of analysis of religion, Atran, Boyer & Wilson
Posted by Razib Khan on April 23, 2007 A few weeks ago, Andrew Brown (author of The Darwin Wars) stated: I’m not sure that Boyer, Atran and Wilson regard their explanations as complementary. I have talked to all three of them about it. My feeling is that while all three of them understand that the explanations might be complementary, they prefer to believe…