John Hawks has an interesting post up on the genetics of twinning.
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Well...the title is a little creepy, but sums up the melange in this report, Study finds that a woman's chances of having twins can be modified by diet. But there is more than diet, researchers have long known that genetics plays a role in twinning rates, it is heritable in that some proportion of…
John Hawks has an interesting post on what it means to be human in which he argues that our "human-ness" (humanity?) is our shared evolutionary history. I like it. But Hawks also writes the following:
It is our history that connects us to our distant relatives, not our genes. Even with a close…
John Hawks says:
So keep on coming by -- I guarantee there will be some very interesting stuff in the next two months.
Things that make you go hhhmmm....
Well, go this symposium:
Salk Institute for Biological Studies DeHoffmann Auditorium
Friday, November 3, 2006
2:30 - 2:50: John Hawks, "Combining…
John Hawks is one of the nation's leading palaeoanthropologists, and has lately been working with ancient DNA, recent and earlier Human Evolution, and an interesting project that is a sort of casting call for extinct humans and their relatives.
Most of you know John from his famous Internet site…
Vitamin D strikes again?
Yams are high in Vitamin D?
Who knew?
Meanwhile, totally off topic but apropos the Zeebmeister's liking for a bit of the hot stuff:
http://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asia-news/19415-chemical-warfare-attac…
".....the door had been smashed" - oh for chrissake.