April 30, 2008
Potential for Vitamin D synthesis permlink
Category: Genetics
From The evolution of human skin coloration, page 12:...
Posted by Razib at 11:27 AM • 27 Comments
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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 at 1:36 PM • 25 Comments
April 28, 2008
Why it was best to be white permlink
Category: Genetics
Posted by Razib 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 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 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 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 at 11:02 PM • 7 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 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 at 12:08 PM • 3 Comments
April 22, 2008
Want sons? Eat well! permlink
Category: Genetics
Mother's Diet Influences Infant Sex: High Energy Intake Linked To Conception Of Sons: ...The study shows a clear link between higher energy intake around the time of conception and the birth of sons. The findings may help explain the falling...
Posted by Razib at 11:01 PM • 4 Comments
Obama & McCain & Clinton on autism permlink
Category: Science
Seems like both the Republican nominee and the likely Democratic nominee entertain the autism and vaccination "hypothesis". I don't follow politics very closely, this sort of comment really disturbs me.... Via TNR. Update: And Clinton too. Update II: Insolence &...
Posted by Razib at 2:27 PM • 5 Comments
Drugs that make you smart? permlink
Category: Biology
A follow up to the scientists & drugs topic, Wired's current issue is devoted to cranking up your intelligence. Most of the advice is kind of kooky, but there is a neat chart of mind-amping drugs if you are so...
Posted by Razib at 3:21 AM • 7 Comments
April 21, 2008
What L. L. Cavalli-Sforza got wrong? permlink
Category: Genetics
History and Geography of Human Genes is one of my favorite books; it might rank up there in my "top 10" if I ever wished to enumerate one. But in both Human Evolutionary Genetics, a textbook, and A Genetic and...
Posted by Razib at 11:39 PM • 0 Comments
Vitamin D deficiency makes you dumb? permlink
Category: Biology
Vitamin D Important In Brain Development And Function: McCann & Ames point out that evidence for vitamin D's involvement in brain function includes the wide distribution of vitamin D receptors throughout the brain. They also discuss vitamin D's ability to...
Posted by Razib at 4:15 PM • 9 Comments
Racial differences & heart attacks permlink
Category: Genetics
If you don't like the word "racial," just substitute "population." In any case, Many African-Americans Have A Gene That Prolongs Life After Heart Failure: About 40 percent of African-Americans have a genetic variant that can protect them after heart failure...
Posted by Razib at 4:10 AM • 7 Comments
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