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September 30, 2007

Neandertals in Siberia & Central Asia  permlink

Category: Evolution

I don't know if we should believe Svante Pääbo anymore, but his lab has some new findings re: Neandertal mtDNA:...

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Good in the name of God  permlink

Category: Religion

I have to say, this Ian Buruma op-ed, Religion as a force for good, read my mind in relation to the events of the past few days. Another rebellion civil society against an autocracy coalescing around the predominant religion of...

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September 29, 2007

Carl Zimmer on bloggingheads.tv  permlink

Category: Blog

Carl Zimmer is on bloggingheads.tv....

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Atheists still more hated than Mormons & Muslims  permlink

Category: Religion

Pew has a new survey out, Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism. The table to the left summarizes the most important points in the survey: Americans dislike Islam somewhat more than Mormonism, and they think Mormonism is a...

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Important papers on recent human evolution  permlink

Category: Genetics

This post is more of a personal note...here are three papers that are really cool must reads: Williamson SH, Hubisz MJ, Clark AG, Payseur BA, Bustamante CD, et al. (2007) Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome. PLoS Genet 3(6): e90 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030090 Voight...

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September 28, 2007

Katz  permlink

Category: Blog

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How the human species kept it together (?)  permlink

Category: Genetics

Yesterday I put up a post where I attempted to use a visual analogy for what I believe might be evolutionary forces operative over short periods of time that result in phenotypic diversification across populations with recent common ancestry. But...

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September 27, 2007

How the human races got their stripes  permlink

Category: Genetics

In my post The new races of man I tried to offer a verbal exposition of my current thinking as to how and why human physical variation shows the patterns we see around us. In short, I believe that powerful...

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September 26, 2007

Bangladesh not most corrupt!  permlink

Category: Culture

Here are the rankings for this year according to Transparency International....

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A post-Christian America?  permlink

Category: Religion

Regular readers know that I often check in on the results from The Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling outfit. On the one hand I think The Barna Group tends to be a bit alarmist (they have a very narrow...

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