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December 31, 2008
Category: Culture
So implies The Audacious Epigone: Mormons are the least likely of the 19 denominations to live alone, but I suspect among the married, they are among the most likely to have a single breadwinner household. Atheists and agnostics, by contrast,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:07 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Genetics
ScienceBlogs has a new contributor, Rebecca Skloot of Culture Dish. The title is in part a reference to her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Looks interesting. If Henrietta Lacks doesn't ring a bell, look her up, it's...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:11 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: History
Most Americans are not aware that the debtor status of our nation is not particularly novel; we have been a debtor nation for most of our history. This fact serves as one of the major linchipins in Eric Rauchway's Blessed...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:58 PM • 5 Comments •
December 30, 2008
Category: Science
I'm old enough to have very faint memories of the very first shuttle missions, though I do not recall the last moon landings. I recently heard a science fiction writer observe that when he was a child the idea of...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:56 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Science
Patient's DNA May Be Signal to Tailor Drugs: The colon cancer drugs Erbitux and Vectibix, for instance, do not work for the 40 percent of patients whose tumors have a particular genetic mutation. The Food and Drug Administration held a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:06 AM • 3 Comments •
December 29, 2008
Category: Evolution
Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion: Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH). ... We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:04 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Culture
A few days ago the Audacious Epigone pointed out that Episcopalians are in the same neighborhood as Jews in the United States on intelligence tests; i.e., on the order of a bit more than 2/3 of a standard deviation above...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:55 AM • 18 Comments •
December 28, 2008
Category: Genetics
Dienekes points me to a new paper, Searching for the origin of Gagauzes: Inferences from Y-chromosome analysis: The Gagauzes are a small Turkish-speaking ethnic group living mostly in southern Moldova and northeastern Bulgaria. The origin of the Gagauzes is obscure....
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:31 PM • 2 Comments •
December 24, 2008
Category: Genetics
PLOS has a think piece up, "It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood": The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective, which comes out against the laws in the United States which ban the marriage of cousins: It is obviously illogical...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:20 PM • 17 Comments •
December 23, 2008
Category: Genetics
Say you have a abstruse paper such as, Accelerated genetic drift on chromosome X during the human dispersal out of Africa: Comparisons of chromosome X and the autosomes can illuminate differences in the histories of males and females as well...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:04 AM • 3 Comments •
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