1) First, a post from the past: Neandertal & humans – introgression.
2) Weird search query of the week: “non-coding rnas and dragons.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to Why siblings differ differently:
The people who criticize twin and adoption experiments in behavioral genetics don’t seem to realize that using genotyping we’ll be able to test heritability over a continuous range of relatedness, as you emphasize in your post.
Already it is significant that Visscher obtains the same heritability for height that the twin experiments obtained. IQ is next …
4) And finally, your weekly fluff fix:
