April 30, 2007
Less blog...for now permlink
Category: Blog
Below is why I haven't been blogging much.......
Posted by Razib at 7:09 PM • 6 Comments
"So cute it hurts...."
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April 30, 2007
Less blog...for now permlink
Category: Blog
Below is why I haven't been blogging much.......
Posted by Razib at 7:09 PM • 6 Comments
Changes @ ScienceBlogs permlink
Category: Blog
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...
Posted by Razib at 5:01 PM • 8 Comments
April 26, 2007
Round-eyed Chinese? permlink
Category: Genetics
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...
Posted by Razib at 3:05 PM • 1 Comments
April 25, 2007
ScienceBlogger threatend with legal action vs. Fair Use permlink
Category: Blog
Final Update: Victory Day! In response to Shelley's request I've removed the text of the original email....
Posted by Razib at 2:14 PM • 2 Comments
April 24, 2007
Erick Trinkaus on Neandertal Admixture permlink
Category: Evolution
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...
Posted by Razib at 1:30 PM • 1 Comments
Immune to missionaries permlink
Category: Culture
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...
Posted by Razib at 1:07 AM • 13 Comments
Levels of analysis of religion, Atran, Boyer & Wilson permlink
Category: Evolution
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...
Posted by Razib at 9:26 AM • 28 Comments
April 22, 2007
Trivializing analogies? permlink
Category: Blog
Chris of Mixing Memory rips into the usual suspects for analogizing atheist activism with the women's suffrage movement. I have basically taken a sabbatical from these SB intramural debates about religion, Creationism, etc. So I'll let you comment over there....
Posted by Razib at 5:58 PM •
April 20, 2007
Genetic conundrum permlink
Category: Blog
Obviously a sex-linked trait. All males seem to exhibit the trait but none of the females. It can't just be the lack of something on the X, otherwise some of the females would have exhibited this trait as well. No,...
Posted by Razib at 10:19 PM • 10 Comments
Brother Bru-Bru's African Hot Sauce permlink
Category: Blog
I was at the local food co-op when I saw Brother Bru Bru's African Hot Sauce. It said it was "very hot!" on the label, and since some of you had recommended African hot sauces to me earlier I decided...
Posted by Razib at 6:42 PM • 5 Comments
Born to run? permlink
Category: Evolution
Here is a report on some developments on the hypothesis that humans are very well evolved to run in the heat. A physical anthropologist told me that while cold adapted peoples can acclimate to tropical conditions, heat adapted peoples are...
Posted by Razib at 6:22 PM • 0 Comments
