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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Genetics
I recently finished reading The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, a new book by Nicholas Wade, a science writer for The New York Times. Before giving it the "full treatment" I thought it behooved me to...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:34 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Culture
As I gave a nod to statistical tricks and subtle shell games very recently, the material I review subsequently should be viewed with skepticism and caution. A few days ago I also pointed to a paper which describes and models...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:49 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Culture
Early (2002) reader of Gene Expression, William Gunn, is leaving a biotech company in San Diego and is looking for another job. Here's his Linkedin....
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Culture
I rarely post much political commentary here, because it would add little value as I have nothing distinctive to say in that domain. At Secular Right I am wont to do data analysis because I think data is something that...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:12 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has started a new blog at ScienceBlogs, Applied Statistics. Someone should design him a header, perhaps a fancified Bayes' theorem?...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:01 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque: The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. "Five times a day,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:58 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Culture
In a piece that outlines SEC follies: In fact, Mr. Madoff said in the jailhouse interview that, on two occasions, he was certain it was only a matter of days or even hours before he would be caught. The first...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:24 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies: Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:13 PM • 1 Comments •
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 •
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