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December 31, 2007

Gay heads of state (as in, obligate homosexuals)  permlink

Category: Culture

So, I just found out that Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa'id Al 'Bu Sa'id, the Sultan and autocrat of Oman, is a homosexual. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But that got me thinking, are there any other homosexual heads...

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Formalization & process  permlink

Category: Evolution

Rich Lawler has an insightful comment: It's interesting to note that a few of the most insightful observations about the evolutionary process were first promulgated verbally, then later proven mathematically (unlike H-W equilibrium). These include runaway sexual selection (first adumbrated...

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Sex ratio & migration via X & Y  permlink

Category: Genetics

Looking for Nm* values for humans I stumbled across an interesting paper, Estimating sex-specific processes in human populations: Are XY-homologous markers an effective tool?: ...To test this idea, we analyzed XY-homologous microsatellite diversity in 33 human populations from Africa, Asia...

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December 30, 2007

p's & q's vs. verbs  permlink

Category: Science

Evolgen and Popgen Ramblings have put up posts where they criticize a parameter of the acceleration paper. John Hawks responds in the comments. But I thought this line was priceless: Nah, you're not a dirty anti-adaptationist! All these labels are...

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It's about inevitability....  permlink

Category: Evolution

Laelaps has an excellent post up, Evolution's Arrow, which you should read. Set some time aside, it is long. I don't know enough about paleontology to comment with great insight on the many of the topics which Laelaps alludes to,...

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December 28, 2007

Katz  permlink

Category: Blog

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December 27, 2007

Obesity is heritable, not genetic  permlink

Category: Genetics

Genome Wide Association (GWA) Study for Early Onset Extreme Obesity Supports the Role of Fat Mass and Obesity Associated Gene (FTO) Variants. Even if this is true, these correlations between particular alleles and obesity hold for the modern German lifestyle....

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Vitamin D: why evolution may matter  permlink

Category: Evolution

Mark of Denialism left a comment below re: Vitamin D deficiency: I wouldn't call that evidence thin biff. The role of vitamin D in tuberculosis was actually pretty well nailed by studies of immigrants in the UK which demonstrate that...

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The Elders of Ron Paul  permlink

Category: Politics

Ed and Mark are asking what's up with Ron Paul and the Neo-Nazis? I think...it's complicated. Colugo sketches out the general lay of the land pretty well, Ron Paul is a "paleo," specifically a paleolibertarian. He derives his ideology from...

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December 25, 2007

The Ascetic Style in American Atheism  permlink

Category: Religion

On this Sunday's Weekend Edition on NPR there was a piece titled Removing Religion from the Holidays a Tall Order. Much of the story focuses upon Greg Epstein, a Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, and his attempt to forge a new...

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December 24, 2007

Fun Christmas music  permlink

Category: Blog

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Indigenous European paganism  permlink

Category: Culture

Found out something interesting today. In the Russian republic of Mari El there exists an indigenous pagan tradition which is not a reconstruction. That is, the pagans of Mari El trace their practice in an unbroken line back to their...

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December 23, 2007

She be mighty fly  permlink

Category: Blog

M. Yglesias seems to be dissing Rihanna's "Umbrella." Well, I'll raise him "Pon de Replay".......

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Jamie Lynn Spears: it runs in the family?  permlink

Category: Genetics

Hometown Reacts: Residents Respond To Pregnancy News in relation to Jamie Lynn Spears & Casey Aldridge's impending parenthood: But we did manage to talk to a few locals, who, quite honestly, weren't too shocked to learn that Britney's little sister...

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Tocharians within the last 6,000 years?  permlink

Category: History

From Different Matrilineal Contributions to Genetic Structure of Ethnic Groups in the Silk Road Region in China: Although our samples were from the same geographic location, a decreasing tendency of the western Eurasian-specific haplogroup frequency was observed, with the highest...

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Most Canadian Non-whites have Vitamin D deficiency  permlink

Category: Science

Are you getting enough vitamin D?: The research, which is awaiting publication in a medical journal, found that 100 per cent of those of African origin were short of vitamin D, as were 93 per cent of South Asians (those...

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