Less blog...for now permlink
Category: Blog
Below is why I haven't been blogging much.......
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Posted by Razib Khan at 7:09 PM • 6 Comments •
Changes @ ScienceBlogs permlink
Category: Blog
Today we debuted the Denialism Blog, while David Dobbs of Smooth Pebbles bids farewell to ScienceBlogs. David offers cogent rationales for why he decided to leave ScienceBlogs (the proximate reason is that he just isn't posting much as far as...
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Round-eyed Chinese? permlink
Category: Genetics
Via Dienekes, a new possible historical genetic story on the horizon: the extent of "European"-origin settlers in pre-modern China. The biography of the individual sequenced: Yu Hong (d. 592 [C.E.]) was a high-ranking member of a community of Sogdians who...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:05 PM • 1 Comments •
ScienceBlogger threatend with legal action vs. Fair Use permlink
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Final Update: Victory Day! In response to Shelley's request I've removed the text of the original email....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:14 PM • 2 Comments •
Erick Trinkaus on Neandertal Admixture permlink
Category: Evolution
Erick Trinkaus has a new article in PNAS, European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals: A consideration of the morphological aspects of the earliest modern humans in Europe (more than ~33,000 B.P.) and the subsequent Gravettian human...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Immune to missionaries permlink
Category: Culture
The April 16th issue of The New Yorker had an article by John Colapinto, The puzzling language of an Amazon tribe. It's in print, so I can't post it, but the short of it is that the tribe might lack...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:07 AM • 13 Comments •
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:27 PM • 1 Comments •
Levels of analysis of religion, Atran, Boyer & Wilson permlink
Category: Evolution
A few weeks ago, Andrew Brown (author of The Darwin Wars) stated: I'm not sure that Boyer, Atran and Wilson regard their explanations as complementary. I have talked to all three of them about it. My feeling is that while...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 9:26 AM • 28 Comments •