Gene Expression

Organ donation & brown people  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 12:28 PM • •

Modernization = religion in South Korea?  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 12:42 PM • 5 Comments •

Epistatic variance to additive variance  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 10:11 PM • 0 Comments •

Breastfeeding by adults?  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 8:36 PM • 8 Comments •

ASPM & Microcephalin & tonal languages?  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments •

Seed 2007 Writing Contest  permlink

Check out the 2007 writing contest from Seed Magazine. First prize is $2,500....

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Posted by Razib at 1:19 PM • 0 Comments •

Yu Hong, round-eyed in China  permlink

Category: Genetics

Kambiz @ Anthropology.net has an excellent review of the case of the Chinese warlord with "European" ancestry....

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Posted by Razib at 3:39 PM • 0 Comments •

Evolution & intuition  permlink

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....

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Posted by Razib at 1:58 PM • 0 Comments •

Eternal recurrence  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 2:21 AM • 0 Comments •

The dead hand of the law  permlink

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...

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Posted by Razib at 7:18 PM • 8 Comments •