Nominees are now up for 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. I have four posts up:
Genetic variation in space & time - Iceland
Inbreeding & the downfall of the Spanish Hapsburgs
The ancient origins of African pygmies
There are many great posts on the list obviously, but I want to point also to my friend Dan MacArthur's submission, Is a personal genome sequence worth $350,000?.
After reading these posts you can vote up until June 8th.
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