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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
May 31, 2007
Category: Genetics
OK, most of you know some genetics. You know that immunological profiles are very diverse, and you know that because of the mathematics of this diversity matches aren't easy. The problem increases in magnitude when you can not look within...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:28 PM • •
May 30, 2007
Category: Religion
In my post Why the gods will never be defeated I made many references to the rise in religiosity concomitant with modernization in South Korean. Here is an article which illustrates what I'm talking about: As recently as 1964, only...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:42 PM • 5 Comments •
May 29, 2007
Category: Genetics
A few weeks ago I posted on how population bottlenecks can convert dominance variance into additive genetic variance. This is important because it is additive genetic variance that is relevant for population level directional selection upon quantitative characters. Now agnostic...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:11 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religion
Islamic scholar promotes adult breastfeeding: ...Izzat Atiyaa had issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, offering his bold suggestion as a way around the prohibition in Islamic religious law against a woman working in private premises with a man who was...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:36 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Note: The authors have a website which summarizes their research (via Language Log). Speaking in tones? Blame it on your genes: People who carry particular variants of two genes involved in brain development tend to speak nontonal languages such as...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments •
Check out the 2007 writing contest from Seed Magazine. First prize is $2,500....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:19 PM • 0 Comments •
May 28, 2007
Category: Genetics
Kambiz @ Anthropology.net has an excellent review of the case of the Chinese warlord with "European" ancestry....
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blog
Chris has a long response to Paul Bloom's recent argument about intuition & science & education. You can also see Jake Young's critical take here, as Chris responds in part to some of his issues with the piece....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:58 PM • 0 Comments •
May 27, 2007
Category: Blog
I've been blogging since spring of 2002. I've seen 'em come and go. Interestingly, I've noted that three blogs I once followed have sprung back to life after going silent relatively early on in the blosphere's evolution, Ideofact, Rachel Lucas...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:21 AM • 0 Comments •
May 26, 2007
Category: Blog
Want to make analytic philosophy papers the exemplars of lively and clear prose? Just read some articles from The Harvard Law Review. My own personal experience with lawyers is that most of them know the law as well as a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:18 PM • 8 Comments •
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