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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Anthroplogy
Ruchira Paul has a post up, "Religious, superstitious, nonsense" and other harsh words. The point at issue is the fact that a teacher who expressed anti-Creationist views in harsh tones was sued. Ruchira asks somewhat rhetorically as to the sort...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
I've discussed menopause as an adaptation and the grandmother effect before. I was also pleased to see the responses of Larry Moran's readers when he presented his standard anti-adaptationist line of argument. I don't want to retread familiar ground here,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:02 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Genetics
The Spittoon points to a new paper, Drawing the history of the Hutterite population on a genetic landscape: inference from Y-chromosome and mtDNA genotypes, which I've been meaning to look at more closely. Unlike some attempts to use genetics to...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:15 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
Eric Michael Johnson is doing some serious science blogging. Worth checking out....
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:57 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
If you're at ASHG, a session you might want to attend, Scale Effects and Recent Brain Evolution: Theory and Preliminary Evidence. Here's the abstract: What forces have driven human evolution since the grand human diaspora? In this paper, I argue...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:29 AM • 60 Comments •
Category: Culture
In the comments of this post I mildly disagreed with Eric Michael Johnson that humans are "polygynous" and the relevance of the fact that "estimates range between 5-10% that all children have been sired by men other than a woman's...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:47 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Evolution
From the comments: Jizya is only a financial tribute / aid to the Muslim State which is in-charge of safeguarding the security of the state and non-muslim's lives and properties on their behalf. Non-muslims pay Jizya BUT they are EXEMPTED...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:01 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Another episode with me interviewing John Hawks on Bloggingheads.tv. Mostly we're talking about about Ardipithecus. The last 1/3 is about Indian genetics. We recorded on Thursday, but since then I've changed my mind on some issues and now disagree with...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
A few days ago I pointed to a paper, Stature, Mortality, and Life History among Indigenous Populations of the Andaman Islands, 1871-1986. It looks at the specific case of the Andaman Islanders to explore the general phenomenon of "pygmy" populations,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:36 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Reading the papers on Ardipithecus ramidus which just came out in Science one of the take-home points that jumps out at me is that extant apes may be very misleading analogs to extinct hominins. Here is Owen Lovejoy: In retrospect,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:24 PM • 4 Comments •
