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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Culture
A little under 10% of South Africa's population are Cape Coloureds. They speak Afrikaans and generally worship in Reformed Christian churches, but exhibit discernible non-European ancestry, in particular African ancestry. In the United States anyone who manifests African ancestry is...
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Category: Genetics
Richard Wrangham has done a podcast over at World Science (see my review of Catching Fire). You can ask questions in the forum, Wrangham will be participating all week....
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Category: Genetics
Common problem with loci presumed to have psychological or behavioral effects, Report on Gene for Depression Is Now Faulted: The original finding, published in 2003, created a sensation among scientists and the public because it offered the first specific, plausible...
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Category: Genetics
Dr. Daniel MacArthur has the must read post on the $48,000 whole-genome sequence. Dr. MacArthur notes that the price point isn't quite within reach for most of the population. Nevertheless, I do find it interesting that I asked Armand Leroi...
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Category: Genetics
The locus MAOA pops up every year or so in a study which attempts to correlate variation in these region with behavior. In particular, anti-social or pathological behavior. So another one is out, Monoamine oxidase A genotype is associated with...
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Category: Genetics
Recently I've been seeing a lot of Chris Patil's posts over at Ouroboros on Twitter. Worth checking out. He's hosting on the Hourglass on the biology of aging right now, though readers of this weblog might find Did aging evolve...
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Category: Genetics
Domestication has a long history. It predates the invention of writing by thousands of years. In the history of biology the study of domestication is closely connected to the emergence of experimental and theoretical biology out of the shadow of...
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Category: Genetics
In Natural selection of a human gene: FUT2 I referred to a paper, Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations (see my earlier review). Now the same group has a follow up paper which takes...
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Category: Culture
In the 19th & 20th centuries with the emergence of nationalism and its various scholarly subsidiaries in archaeology, philology and ethnography quite a few pan-ethnic movements rooted in language were born. Pan-Slavism, the Greater German idea (Grossdeutsch) and Pan-Arabism come...
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Category: Genetics
A few months ago I reviewed a paper which examined the various complexities of interpreting signals of natural selection from recently developed genomic tests in response to the avalanche of human sequence data. In the paper, Signals of recent positive...
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