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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
June 30, 2008
Category: Genetics
PZ Myers outlines synteny. RPM says he's kind of wrong. Check out the definition in Wikipedia. Since RPM came down on me for confusion on this term I knew he would bring this up. I don't really care much about...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
Chris of Mixing Memory is doing us the service of a chapter by chapter review of George Lakoff's The Political Mind. This should be fun! I told Chris that reading Lakoff talking about the minds of conservatives is kind of...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:50 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Politics
A few weeks ago I read Brink Lindsey's The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. One strange thing is that because I've watched Brink on BloggingHeads.TV on occasion could hear the prose with his particular cadence...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:42 AM • 24 Comments •
June 29, 2008
Category: Genetics
Baby to be born free of breast cancer after embryo screening: The couple produced 11 embryos, of which five were found to be free from the gene. Two of these were implanted in the woman's womb and she is now...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:50 PM • 3 Comments •
June 28, 2008
June 27, 2008
Category: Genetics
I just read an interesting new paper, Genetic Variation in Political Participation: The decision to vote has puzzled scholars for decades...The results show that a significant proportion of the variation in voting turnout can be accounted for by genes. We...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:39 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Evolution
The best summary so far here of the bird phylogeny paper. Also, Greg Laden. Most definitely I was surprised and interested to learn that falcons are not closely related to eagles & hawks....
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:10 AM • 4 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: Genetics
Sandy pointed me to letter to Nature by a group which has done some earlier pigmentation work, Two newly identified genetic determinants of pigmentation in Europeans: We present results from a genome-wide association study for variants associated with human pigmentation...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:48 PM • 1 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: Genetics
Humans, being who we are, are really interested in how our external phenotype is shaped. Since the year 2000 many of the genetic underpinnings of the gross physical features which we use to categorize people, the sort of thing that...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:17 AM • 4 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: Genetics
One of the great things about evolutionary genetics is that it is such a diverse field in terms of the cognitive toolkit which one must access as a matter of course. Since R. A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:59 PM • 3 Comments •
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