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April 30, 2008
Category: Genetics
From The evolution of human skin coloration, page 12:...
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April 29, 2008
Category: Creationism
John Derbyshire has a long column excoriating Ben Stein and the Discovery Institute titled A Blood Libel on Our Civilization:...
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April 28, 2008
Category: Genetics
Posted by Razib Khan at 10:32 AM • 27 Comments •
Category: Culture
Over @ Stranger Fruit John Lynch points a section from a paper which recounts the Christian assocation with eugenics: On the whole the evangelical mainstream in the decades following the turn of the century appeared apathetic, acquiescent, or at times...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:57 AM • 6 Comments •
April 27, 2008
Category: Genetics
Welcome to the 30th Gene Genie! Indulge in the fascinating world of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine has a "genetics lifestyle" post, Home Improvement For Geneticists. Not quite Tim Allen. Fellow ScienceBlogger Sandra illustrates Mapping polymorphisms in 16S ribosomal RNA. Definitely...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:49 AM • 1 Comments •
April 26, 2008
Category: Religion
Just a heads up, I've been posting now and then to the quasi-Twitteresque site Talk Islam run by my friend Aziz Poonawalla. I also have a sub-weblog where I'll be posting some of my longer form ruminations...but it might be...
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April 25, 2008
Category: History
If you read this weblog you are aware that I have a fascination with the intersection of human history and human evolutionary genetics. There are many questions I have about the finding from evolutionary genomic studies that light skin evolved...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:02 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Blog
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Category: Genetics
Genetic variation in human NPY expression affects stress response and emotion: Understanding inter-individual differences in stress response requires the explanation of genetic influences at multiple phenotypic levels, including complex behaviours and the metabolic responses of brain regions to emotional stimuli....
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April 23, 2008
Category: Genetics
Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England? : It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:08 PM • 3 Comments •
