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October 31, 2007

Out of Africa model most likely  permlink

Category: Evolution

Statistical evaluation of alternative models of human evolution: An appropriate model of recent human evolution is not only important to understand our own history, but it is necessary to disentangle the effects of demography and selection on genome diversity. Although...

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Donors Choose update  permlink

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OK, last update on this obviously because it is the last day of the month. A few readers really went wild in the last few days (in a good way) and from only 5 donors 508 students were impacted! (check...

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October 29, 2007

How were the Americas peopled?  permlink

Category: Genetics

Until recently archeologists held to a model called Clovis First which posited that the Amerindians were descended from Siberian hunters who swept down from Beringia 13,000 years ago and spread rapidly north to south. Findings such as Monte Verde have...

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October 28, 2007

Mormonism is illogical, Christianity is not  permlink

Category: Religion

Over at Ross Douthat's blog, a giggle-inducing comment: It seems to me that Mormonism is indeed a lot more illogical than mainstream Christianity. It suffers from logical contradictions that Christianity does not- for example, how can someone be retroactively baptized?...

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Woodland Critter Christmas  permlink

Category: Blog

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October 27, 2007

Who's afraid of nuclear power?  permlink

Category: Science

Just listened to an interview on NPR with the author of Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. She mentions how she had a reflexive prejudice against nuclear energy and generally opposed its use because of her...

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The end of capitalist porn?  permlink

Category: Culture

Interesting piece which chronicles the decline in the DVD driven profits of porn companies due to "user generated porn." Porn is in some ways sui generis, so this is an interesting trend. Check out the traffic of YouPorn vs. Facebook....

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October 25, 2007

Neandertals had red hair! (OK, some)  permlink

Category: Genetics

Sometimes science is just too cool! A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals: The melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) regulates pigmentation in humans and other vertebrates. Variants of MC1R with reduced function are associated with pale skin color...

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October 24, 2007

Four Stone Hearth #26  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Four Stone Hearth #26....

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October 23, 2007

Contingency & evolution  permlink

Category: Evolution

If you like the science on this weblog, I highly recommend Laelaps, Brian Switek's contribution to the ScienceBlogs network. Where I am more micro and anthro oriented he is more macro and spans the whole tree of life. I'm really...

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Why katz are cute  permlink

Category: Blog

Via Grrlscientist....

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Monkeys with bad habits  permlink

Category: Biology

The death of an Indian politician due to a monkey mob is getting a lot of attention. But Ruchira Paul points me to an older story which I think is even more interesting: They have invaded the prime minister's office...

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Why white people are so colorful!  permlink

Category: Genetics

Another day, and another genome-wide association study. Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans: ...We carried out a genome-wide association scan for variants associated with hair and eye pigmentation, skin sensitivity to sun and freckling among 2,986...

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Bobby Jindal: ignorant genius  permlink

Category: Politics

Some of you know that Bobby Jindal was just elected as the governor of Louisiana. Jindal has an interesting story, he's the son of Indian immigrants, received degrees in biology and public bolicy from Brown, passed on Harvard Medical School...

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October 22, 2007

"I am condom friend!"  permlink

Category: Blog

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Adaptationism not right-wing!?!?  permlink

Category: Evolution

An Empirical Examination of Adaptationists' Attitudes Toward Politics and Science. You can find a full preprint at Geoffrey Miller's site. The abstract: Critics of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology have advanced an adaptationists-as-right-wing-conspirators (ARC) hypothesis, suggesting that adaptationists use their research...

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