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November 20, 2009

Katz  permlink

Category: Blog

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November 19, 2009

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures  permlink

Category: Evolution

During the first few years of ScienceBlogs there was a lot of talk about religion. Yes, there's talk about religion now, but it's toned down in the wake of the ebbing of the publicity around The God Delusion. Naturally in...

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Firelight  permlink

Category: Culture

I actually saw this SNL Digital Short parody of the Twilight movie trailer before I saw the real one on YouTube. Make sure to watch the real thing after the parody, makes it way funnier....

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November 18, 2009

Ancient DNA & the moa  permlink

Category: Evolution

The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography: ...We synthesize mitochondrial phylogenetic information from 263 subfossil moa specimens from across NZ with morphological, ecological, and new geological data to create the first comprehensive phylogeny, taxonomy,...

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Evolution, the Muslim world & religious beliefs  permlink

Category: Culture

In the post below I pointed to an article which claimed: It's hard to say exactly how much support the theory of evolution enjoys in the world's Muslim countries, but it's definitely not very much. In one 2006 study by...

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Charles Darwin was quite the infidel  permlink

Category: Culture

There was recently a conference on evolution in Egypt. Some interesting numbers: Dr Guessoum, who is a Sunni Muslim, said that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only 15 per cent of those surveyed believed Darwin's...

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November 17, 2009

From population genetics to linguistics  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

The relationship between language families and historical population genetics has a long history. In the 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists were wont to substitute and synthesize the connections discerned in linguistic relationships with those of presumed biological affinities. This...

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Personal genomics bubble bursting?  permlink

Category: Economics

Changes in the world of personal genomics. Dan MacArthur has the details on 23andMe changing up its offerings, perhaps signalling that the money gush is long over. And deCode is finally dead. Of course, just because the .com bubble burst...

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November 16, 2009

The other denialisms  permlink

Category: Culture

This discussion between Michael Specter & Chris Mooney pointed me to an interesting new book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Instead of Global Warming or Creationism, Specter addresses less pervasively disputatious...

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November 15, 2009

Box office retardiculosity!  permlink

Category: Culture

'2012' Opening Earns $65 Million: It is rare for a movie not based on a pre-existing brand, franchise or hit novel to deliver such robust results. Sony said "2012," with a budget of $200 million, had the highest worldwide opening...

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