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May 31, 2007
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...
Posted by Razib at 12:28 PM •
May 30, 2007
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...
Posted by Razib at 12:42 PM • 5 Comments
May 29, 2007
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...
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...
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...
Posted by Razib at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments
Seed 2007 Writing Contest permlink
Category:
Check out the 2007 writing contest from Seed Magazine. First prize is $2,500....
Posted by Razib at 1:19 PM • 0 Comments
May 28, 2007
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....
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....
Posted by Razib at 1:58 PM • 0 Comments
May 27, 2007
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...
Posted by Razib at 2:21 AM • 0 Comments
May 26, 2007
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...
Posted by Razib at 7:18 PM • 8 Comments
Radio Open Source needs funds! permlink
Category: Blog
Radio Open Source is trying to raise some money to stave off shut-down....
Posted by Razib at 7:22 PM • 0 Comments
Why the gods will not be defeated permlink
Category: Religion
I've received a few emails from friends about this piece in Edge titled Why the Gods are Not Winning. The reason is that I've made it clear that in many ways I think religiosity as we understand it naturally arises...
Posted by Razib at 6:53 PM • 28 Comments
May 23, 2007
Loss permlink
Category: Blog
Fellow SBer Mark Chu-Carroll on the loss of his father....
Posted by Razib at 1:45 AM •
May 22, 2007
Group selection & the bugs permlink
Category: Evolution
The emergence of a superorganism through intergroup competition: Surveys of insect societies have revealed four key, recurring organizational trends: (i) The most elaborated cooperation occurs in groups of relatives. (ii) Cooperation is typically more elaborate in species with large colony...
Posted by Razib at 4:45 PM • 0 Comments
Geico Neandertals permlink
Category: Blog
I know most readers have/watch TV, so the Geico Neandertal commercials aren't new to them. But I thought I'd post this on the chance that some haven't seen them, because I really like this one.......
Posted by Razib at 4:16 PM • 4 Comments
