Why race will matter after we all get our full sequences
In my post “Health care costs and ancestry”, a commenter says:
“Race” is a concept that should have died with disco. I imagine it will soon be feasible for every patient to have their genome analysis included in their medical file and t…
Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Link to review: Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History.
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Link to review: God’s Contintent, Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis.
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Link to review: God’s Contintent, Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis.
The neo-Malthusian petro-kings
One of the major problems with natural scientists when they “project” into the future they often do not take into account the power of innovation to change the fundamental parameters of the game. I believe this was part of the issue at the …
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Link to review: Slow and diverse food.
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Link to review: The Price of Altruism.
The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene
Link to review: The wisdom of Seinfeld.
The academy is liberal, deal!
A new article in The New York Times, Social Scientist Sees Bias Within, profiles Jonathan Haidt’s quest to get some political diversity within social psychology. This means my post Is the Academy liberal?, is getting some links again. The data wi…
Dodecad open for submissions
Since I know plenty of friends are getting, or just got, their V3 results, I thought I’d pass this on, Open-ended submission opportunity for 23andMe data (#2):
Who is eligible
Everyone who is of European, Asian, or North African ancestry and all …
Species, not arbitrary, but not clear & distinct
John Hawks and Jerry Coyne are mooting the ‘species concepts’ debate, with particular focus on recent human origins (specifically, the relationship of modern humans to Neandertals and Denisovans). Coyne, who coauthored the book Speciation …
Health care costs and ancestry
The Pith: In this post I examine the relationship between racial ancestry and cancer mortality risks conditioned on particular courses of treatment. I review research which indicates that the amount of Native American ancestry can be a very important …
Personal genomics in two dimensions
The Pith: In this post I take a different tack at genetic data visualization. Instead of bar plots, I show how genetic relationships can be explored using two dimensional spaces.
Last week I suggested that in some ways I had hit a wall of sharply reduc…
Friday Fluff – February 4th, 2011
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…
A site about books I have read/like/recommend
It’s called Razib on Books. I posted the rationale over at Discover Blogs. Basically a way for me to organize past content which new readers are not aware of.
Razib on Books
In the New Year’s Open Thread D. Chamberlin suggested:
I think your many book reviews ought to be more accessible. They were for me an excellent guide as to which books I should buy as well as educational in and of themselves. You have a long lis…