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:...
Posted by Razib at 2:06 PM • 4 Comments
"So cute it hurts...."
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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:...
Posted by Razib at 2:06 PM • 4 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 10:28 AM • 5 Comments
September 29, 2007
Carl Zimmer on bloggingheads.tv permlink
Category: Blog
Carl Zimmer is on bloggingheads.tv....
Posted by Razib at 1:41 PM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 11:44 AM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 4:08 AM • 3 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 10:29 AM • 2 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 5:53 PM • 9 Comments
September 26, 2007
Bangladesh not most corrupt! permlink
Category: Culture
Here are the rankings for this year according to Transparency International....
Posted by Razib at 2:49 PM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 9:49 AM • 37 Comments
September 25, 2007
Video of little "Michael Jackson" permlink
Category: Blog
Posted by Razib at 4:16 PM • 2 Comments
September 24, 2007
Why care about species extinctions? permlink
Category: Evolution
The New Republic has a piece titled The Greatest Dying by Jerry Coyne & Hopi E. Hoekstra (see below the fold for how to read it for free if you don't have a TNR subscription). The piece covers the a)...
Posted by Razib at 3:02 PM • 12 Comments
One RNA to bind them all? permlink
Category: Genetics
The Boston Globe has a long piece titled DNA unraveled. With the subtitle like "A 'scientific revolution' is taking place, as researchers explore the genomic jungle" you know what to except, lots of adjectives and a healthy dollop of hyperbole....
Posted by Razib at 8:27 AM • 1 Comments
September 22, 2007
Liberals and low IQ believe in astrology more permlink
Category: Culture
The Inducivist is always digging into the GSS and coming back with interesting stuff. For example, he reports: Percent who believe astrology is very or sort of scientific 43.3% Extremely liberal 32.2% Liberal 31.4% Slightly liberal 25.9% Moderate 25.9% Slightly...
Posted by Razib at 5:17 PM • 17 Comments
Why do you have blue eyes? permlink
Category: Genetics
Well, you may not have blue eyes, but many people do. The post below suggests that there is still a lot of confusion on how eye color is inherited, but now in 2007 we are coming close to clearing up...
Posted by Razib at 4:30 PM • 24 Comments
September 21, 2007
Correlation structure of traits permlink
Category: Genetics
Do any readers know of work which tracks the correlation between characteristics such as blonde hair and blue eyes (within population where these are extant at high frequencies, but not fixed)? I am also interested in geographic distributions. In part...
Posted by Razib at 11:40 AM • 20 Comments
