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September 30, 2007
Category: Evolution
I don't know if we should believe Svante Pääbo anymore, but his lab has some new findings re: Neandertal mtDNA:...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:06 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Religion
I have to say, this Ian Buruma op-ed, Religion as a force for good, read my mind in relation to the events of the past few days. Another rebellion civil society against an autocracy coalescing around the predominant religion of...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:28 AM • 5 Comments •
September 29, 2007
Category: Blog
Carl Zimmer is on bloggingheads.tv....
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Category: Religion
Pew has a new survey out, Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism. The table to the left summarizes the most important points in the survey: Americans dislike Islam somewhat more than Mormonism, and they think Mormonism is a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:44 AM • •
Category: Genetics
This post is more of a personal note...here are three papers that are really cool must reads: Williamson SH, Hubisz MJ, Clark AG, Payseur BA, Bustamante CD, et al. (2007) Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome. PLoS Genet 3(6): e90 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030090 Voight...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:08 AM • 3 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Blog
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:47 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Yesterday I put up a post where I attempted to use a visual analogy for what I believe might be evolutionary forces operative over short periods of time that result in phenotypic diversification across populations with recent common ancestry. But...
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:29 AM • 2 Comments •
September 27, 2007
Category: Genetics
In my post The new races of man I tried to offer a verbal exposition of my current thinking as to how and why human physical variation shows the patterns we see around us. In short, I believe that powerful...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:53 PM • 9 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: Culture
Here are the rankings for this year according to Transparency International....
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:49 PM • •
Category: Religion
Regular readers know that I often check in on the results from The Barna Group, an evangelical Christian polling outfit. On the one hand I think The Barna Group tends to be a bit alarmist (they have a very narrow...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:49 AM • 37 Comments •
