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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...
Posted by Razib at 5:57 PM • 2 Comments
Donors Choose update permlink
Category:
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...
Posted by Razib at 2:31 PM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 9:58 AM • 1 Comments
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?...
Posted by Razib at 11:25 PM • 17 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 4:56 PM • 13 Comments
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....
Posted by Razib at 1:35 AM • 6 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 1:59 PM • 19 Comments
October 24, 2007
Four Stone Hearth #26 permlink
Category: Anthroplogy
Four Stone Hearth #26....
Posted by Razib at 3:22 PM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 8:10 PM • 11 Comments
Why katz are cute permlink
Category: Blog
Via Grrlscientist....
Posted by Razib at 5:39 PM • 3 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 5:25 PM • 2 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 7:06 AM • 4 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 3:09 AM • 19 Comments
October 22, 2007
"I am condom friend!" permlink
Category: Blog
Posted by Razib at 4:07 PM • 1 Comments
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...
Posted by Razib at 3:41 PM • 15 Comments
