Genome-wide associations, HERC2 and eye color permlink
Category: Genetics
Sound familiar? Well, good things come in pairs. A few days ago I posted on a paper which used a linkage analysis to come to the conclusion that an SNP on HERC2 was responsible for the variation in eye color...
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Posted by Razib at 1:16 PM • 0 Comments •
Ethics & science permlink
Category: Science
If science is a culture it needs a way to punish free-riders & cheaters. Otherwise the whole system will collapse. So check out Tetrapod Zoology; Darren has some details on shady goings-on....
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Posted by Razib at 2:27 AM • 0 Comments •
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory blogging, chapter 3 permlink
Category: Evolution
Chapters read:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. 17% of the way through The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, can I get a w00t, w00t!?!?! Chapter 3 was a change. I am wondering if the verbal excesses on garish display...
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Posted by Razib at 12:51 AM • 11 Comments •
'Blue-eyed Humans' do not 'Have A Single, Common Ancestor; permlink
Category: Genetics
ScienceDaily has a most-retarded title up for a report on some new research, Blue-eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor. I already blogged the paper at my other blog. The paper roughly confirms the previous finding that I blogged that...
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Posted by Razib at 10:45 PM • 8 Comments •
Four Stone Hearth 33 permlink
Category: Blog
Is up at Greg's....
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Posted by Razib at 2:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Structure of Evolutionary Theory link round up permlink
Category: Blog
Over at Laelaps. Too busy wrestling the 5-pound monster as I tread water attempting to process the copious verbal excreta, so I appreciate the effort!...
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Posted by Razib at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Olivia Judson on sticklebacks permlink
Category: Genetics
Give the lady her due, Olivia Judson can lay down some serious exposition when she's on: There are a couple of interesting things about this discovery. The first is that the molecular basis of the change from pelvis to no...
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Posted by Razib at 12:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Just Science 2008 announcement permlink
Category: Blog
Since Just Science starts next week I'm going to have to take a break from Stephen Jay Gould blogging due to the constraints that I'm going to have to adhere to when it comes to posts (i.e., it has to...
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Posted by Razib at 6:39 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Blog
...likely carries rs12913832 on her HERC2, and that's fine by me.......
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is like.... permlink
Category: philosophy
...Das Kapital! So says Bora: Forget Dennett's strawmen destruction - read Gould carefully for what GOULD is trying to say. The Big Book is 'Das Kapitaal' of the 21st century biology - someone now needs to write a shorter, simpler...
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