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Now on ScienceBlogs: Telegraph: blame the rape victims - science says you can! [bioephemera]
Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
November 30, 2007
November 26, 2007
Category: Genetics
Several years ago Oprah Winfrey asked Tiger Woods what he would say to people who say that when they look him they see a black man. The issue was that some African Americans objected to Woods' contention that he was...
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Category: Culture
Ali Eteraz has an article titled Mistaken identity in The Guardian which is a long rambling reflection on Islamic identity, and specifically his Islamic identity. He is somewhat confused by the conflation of Islam with a quasi-ethnic identity....
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Category: Creationism
Rock of Ages, Ages of Rock: . To the young-earth creationists, this is both unscientific and dubiously religious. "We don't subscribe to this idea of the 'God of gaps,' meaning if you can't explain something, then blame God," Whitmore told...
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November 25, 2007
Category: Evolution
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters is an expansive new book authored by vertebrate paleontologist Donald Prothero and lushly illustrated by Carl Buell. The quality of the plates and illustrations, the binding as well as the texture...
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November 24, 2007
Category: Culture
The Future of Reading: All these ideas are anathema to traditionalists. In May 2006, novelist John Updike, appalled at reading Kelly's article ("a pretty grisly scenario"), decided to speak for them. Addressing a convention of booksellers, he cited "the printed,...
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November 23, 2007
Category: Blog
I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.0 beta. It might have some bugs, but it resolved all the problems I'd been having earlier with Firefox crashing in gmail....
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November 22, 2007
Category: Blog
Just wishing readers who live in the USA a good holiday....
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November 21, 2007
Category: Genetics
Targeted discovery of novel human exons by comparative genomics: Here we describe a genome-wide effort, carried out as part of the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) project, to identify human genes not yet in the gene catalogs. Our approach was to...
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