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August 31, 2007
Category: Blog
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August 30, 2007
Category: Genetics
When someone tells you that height is 80% heritable, does that mean: a) 80% of the reason you are the height you are is due to genes b) 80% of the variation within the population on the trait of height...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:23 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I've talked about menopause a fair amount on this blog, usually in relation to the Grandmother Hypothesis. So I thought I'd pass along this article, Eusociality, menopause and information in matrilineal whales, along. I know that many think that menopause...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:50 AM • 11 Comments •
August 29, 2007
Category: Genetics
Update: Comment from Chris Surridge of PLOS One: Just a quick note. The paper is now formally published on PLoS ONE. The citation is: Tuljapurkar SD, Puleston CO, Gurven MD (2007) Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:50 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Genetic and environmental contributions to prosocial behaviour in 2- to 9-year-old South Korean twins: ...The best-fitting model indicated that 55%...of the variance in the 2- to 9-year-olds' prosocial behaviour was due to genetic factors and 45%...was due to non-shared environmental...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:37 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Blog
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:27 AM • 2 Comments •
August 28, 2007
Category: Science
I was talking with a friend of mine who is an economist about science, and the great productivity in modern societies which allows for the perpetuation of narrow specialties in scholarship. I repeated to him my own hunch that if...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:55 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: History
Over at my other blog Herrick posts a response to 10 questions for Gregory Clark. Clark is an economic historian whose most recent book Farwell to Alms is making a splash. I read the book recently, but because I'm not...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:02 PM • 3 Comments •
August 25, 2007
Category: Psychology
Check out this new interview with Steven Pinker. It ostensibly focuses on his new book, The Stuff of Thought, though it covers a lot of ground. My own feeling is that the interviewer should have let the focus be more...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:33 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Yesterday I posted on the resurrection of the "redheads going extinct" meme (as I noted, this story seems to cycle every few years). The current source is National Geographic Magazine, which doesn't have the "article" online. I went to the...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:39 PM • 12 Comments •
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