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March 31, 2008

World religions - numbers over time....  permlink

Category: Religion

Well, it turns out that there isn't a handy-dandy reference for the numbers for various religions in the past. Mark Kirkorian over at The Corner linked to my earlier post where I expressed skepticism about the contention by the Vatican...

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The accommodation of religion  permlink

Category: Religion

The Islamic Republic of Harvard?: But the decision put Harvard in the awkward position of having to arbitrate what constitutes legitimate religious practice. Marine claims there was a "moral and ethical responsibility" for the administration to act on this request,...

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March 30, 2008

Katz  permlink

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Why genome wide scans aren't all that  permlink

Category: Genetics

Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has the details. Some of the stuff coming out of genomics reminds me a lot of what you see with social science; lots of sexy studies which turn out not to be as significant upon...

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More Muslims than Catholics...again  permlink

Category: Religion

Update: Follow up post with some numbers and logic laid out. Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican: Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and...

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Impersonating Dan Dennett on religion  permlink

Category: Culture

At my other weblog a long post on religion: On the most recent bloggingheads.tv you can watch Paul Bloom explaining why he thinks the propensity for theism is an innate bias of our species. Several years back Bloom wrote a...

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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence  permlink

Category: Evolution

I have a review copy of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; but I'm not planning on reading it at this point. See John Hawks for why. Sometimes interdisciplinary work sheds new light on old questions because...

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March 28, 2008

Katz update  permlink

Category: Blog

Just an FYI, but Kat photos will be delayed by a day or so this week. But if you are interested in katage, check out this week's South Park....

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Gene Genie #24  permlink

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Greg Laden has Gene Genie #24 up. I'll be hosting #30 at the end of April.......

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Geert Wilders & defaming Islam  permlink

Category: Religion

Michael C. Moynihan has a article up at Reason, In Defense of Geert Wilders: In response to the controversy surrounding Fitna, Wilders' website was knocked offline by his American host, Network Solutions; he has been repeatedly denounced by the government...

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Uyghurs are hybrids  permlink

Category: Genetics

Another paper is out which falls under the category of using genetics to understand human history; Analysis of Genomic Admixture in Uyghur and Its Implication in Mapping Strategy:The Uyghur (UIG) population, settled in Xinjiang, China, is a population presenting a...

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March 24, 2008

Minorities + minorities?  permlink

Category: Culture

Do minorities feel they have more in common with each other rather than whites? See Inductivist....

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March 21, 2008

Muslim fundamentalists, then and now  permlink

Category: Culture

It was in the 7th century of the Christian Era many of the events which shaped the course of Islamic sectarianism occurred. The major one you are aware of is the Shia-Sunni split; the reality of the origins of this...

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Kate Beckinsale treats?  permlink

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Guess what Kate Beckinsale prefers over sushi.......

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Patterns of admixture in Latin American mestizos  permlink

Category: Genetics

New PLOS paper, Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos. Nothing new, but pushing the ball forward.......

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Katz  permlink

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