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April 29, 2008
Ben Stein is a barbarian? permlink
Category: Creationism
John Derbyshire has a long column excoriating Ben Stein and the Discovery Institute titled A Blood Libel on Our Civilization:...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:36 PM • 25 Comments •
April 28, 2008
Why it was best to be white permlink
Category: Genetics
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:32 AM • 27 Comments •
Margaret Sanger: anti-abortionist? permlink
Category: Culture
Over @ Stranger Fruit John Lynch points a section from a paper which recounts the Christian assocation with eugenics: On the whole the evangelical mainstream in the decades following the turn of the century appeared apathetic, acquiescent, or at times...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:57 AM • 6 Comments •
April 27, 2008
Gene Genie #30 permlink
Category: Genetics
Welcome to the 30th Gene Genie! Indulge in the fascinating world of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine has a "genetics lifestyle" post, Home Improvement For Geneticists. Not quite Tim Allen. Fellow ScienceBlogger Sandra illustrates Mapping polymorphisms in 16S ribosomal RNA. Definitely...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:49 AM • 1 Comments •
April 26, 2008
Talk Islam permlink
Category: Religion
Just a heads up, I've been posting now and then to the quasi-Twitteresque site Talk Islam run by my friend Aziz Poonawalla. I also have a sub-weblog where I'll be posting some of my longer form ruminations...but it might be...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:56 AM • 0 Comments •
April 25, 2008
The Inner Asian gap: the Afanasievo breakthrough permlink
Category: History
If you read this weblog you are aware that I have a fascination with the intersection of human history and human evolutionary genetics. There are many questions I have about the finding from evolutionary genomic studies that light skin evolved...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:02 PM • 8 Comments •
Behavior genetics + neuroscience + genomics = ? permlink
Category: Genetics
Genetic variation in human NPY expression affects stress response and emotion: Understanding inter-individual differences in stress response requires the explanation of genetic influences at multiple phenotypic levels, including complex behaviours and the metabolic responses of brain regions to emotional stimuli....
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:36 AM • 1 Comments •
April 23, 2008
No Anglo-Saxon Apartheid? permlink
Category: Genetics
Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England? : It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:08 PM • 3 Comments •
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