3 years ago I invited David B to post on Gene Expression (classic), and over the years he's produced some meaty entries which deal with important scientific and cultural issues. Below are 10 posts which I'd like to introduce to Science Blogs readers....
Biological versus cultural evolution
Is culture useful?
Celts and Anglo-Saxons
Once more into the breach
The World Riddle
Defining Group Selection: Price's Equation
Regression to the mean and Galton's Fallacy (not!)
A load of Rawls
Ethnic Genetic Interests: Part 1
Measuring Genetic Diversity
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Martin had a comment below:
You equate language groups with ethnic, even political, groups. That's quite a stretch. Western archaeologists abandoned that idea in the 1970s.
I think I should expand a bit on my comment where I address Martin's assertion. I think I made it pretty clear that when it…
In the comments below I referred to the "Price Equation." Here is what William D. Hamilton had to say about George Price's formalism in Narrow Roads of Gene Land:
A manuscript did eventually come from him but what I found set out was not any sort of new derivation or correction of my 'kin selection…
/. has a post with the title Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline, drawing from a recent paper which found that the mtDNA haplotype diversity in England was lower than 1,000 years ago. The authors were surprised because of course one presumes England is more cosmopolitan today than in the…
Update: Make sure to read the comments, some of them are worthy of posts.
John Wilkins has a long response to my post Cultural Cladistics. Now, John knows several orders of magnitude more about systematics than I do...so he emphasized the cladistics aspect and traced out the misimpressions,…
Those links are redirecting to the ScienceBlogs GNXP homepage.