Seed Media Group

yourhost.jpg

Search this blog

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Categories

Blogroll

Q & A

Books

Subscribe via Email

Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.

Sign me up!

August 31, 2008

Genetic map of Europe; genes vary as a function of distance  permlink

Category: Genetics

My post The Genetic Map of Europe drew a lot of interest, but there's even a cooler paper on the same topic out, Genes mirror geography within Europe: ...Despite low average levels of genetic differentiation among Europeans, we find a...

Read on »

August 30, 2008

Barack Obama's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America  permlink

Category: Politics

Sciencedebate 2008 got some answers from Barack Obama. Props to Chris and Sheril who put some labor hours into this.......

Read on »

Sarah Palin, 14% chance of Presidency 2009-2013?  permlink

Category: Politics

Seems like there's a 14% chance that if the Republicans keep the White House this year that Sarah Palin will be President of the United States in the interval 2009-2013. Of course, you could modulate the probability up or down...

Read on »

August 29, 2008

War and the evolution of belligerence and bravery  permlink

Category: Genetics

War and the evolution of belligerence and bravery: Tribal war occurs when a coalition of individuals use force to seize reproduction-enhancing resources, and it may have affected human evolution. Here, we develop a population-genetic model for the coevolution of costly...

Read on »

Women care more about abortion rights  permlink

Category: Culture

In my post below I pointed out that there was no sex difference in terms of attitudes toward the legality of abortion on demand. But the question remains: is there a difference of intensity? Yes. Women care more. Specifically, pro-choice...

Read on »

Who supports abortion on demand?  permlink

Category: Culture

Those with more education, wealth and intelligence. Those with less pigment in the skin and more liberal politics. There is no sex difference. Charts below....

Read on »

Atheist vs. Attend Religious Services Once a Week  permlink

Category: Culture

A comment: In Canada, places in the far west like Alberta and British Columbia contain a higher percentage of atheists and other non-religious, but also a higher percentage of evangelical Christians. This is true in the USA to some extent...but...

Read on »

McCain is a maverick  permlink

Category: Culture

At least when it comes to choosing his VP candidate. Joe Biden as a "safe" choice; Sarah Palin is not....

Read on »

Where are the seculars?  permlink

Category: Culture

Over at Island of Doubt James Hrynyshyn says: As far as I can tell, North Carolina's no different from the rest of America when it comes to religion. About a tenth of the population is free of religious conviction.... Well,...

Read on »

August 28, 2008

Amazon was not always "pristine"  permlink

Category: Science

'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization: The paper also argues that the size and scale of the settlements in the southern Amazon in North Central Brazil means that what many scientists have considered virgin tropical forests are in fact...

Read on »

War, rape and group selection  permlink

Category: Genetics

Fortune favours the brave; but the brave are motivated by favours of another kind: If courage makes it significantly more likely that small bands of tribes-men will win military confrontations with their neighbours, its overall advantages can easily outweigh its...

Read on »

August 27, 2008

Genetics ∩ Sociology ∩ Evolution = Genomic Imprinting  permlink

Category: Genetics

As I have said before biology is quite often the science of exceptions, of variation. Evolutionary biologists spend a great deal of time wondering about the origin of sex, but across vast swaths of the tree of life sex is...

Read on »

Earthquakes → progress?  permlink

Category: History

Tectonic environments of ancient civilizations in the eastern hemisphere: The map distribution of ancient civilizations shows a remarkable correspondence with tectonic boundaries related to the southern margin of the Eurasian plate. Quantification of this observation shows that the association is...

Read on »

August 26, 2008

Refuting evolutionary materialism  permlink

Category: Evolution

Update: Please read Sandman's response after you look over this post.... New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth: Blades were first produced by Homo sapiens during their colonization of Europe from Africa approximately 40,000 years ago. This has traditionally been thought...

Read on »

August 25, 2008

How I view religion  permlink

Category: Religion

A lot of comments have revolved around whether I am a Post-Modernist when it comes to the definition of religion. This post is to make explicit and clarify my own position so I don't have to waste so much time...

Read on »

Democrat and Republican, by the numbers  permlink

Category: Politics

Pew has a nice survey up right now, A Closer Look at the Parties in 2008. Here are three questions, and the Republican - Democrat difference on the responses: Do you think the US made the right or wrong decision...

Read on »

Blogs in the Network

Advertisement

Top Five: Readers' Picks

Search All Blogs