The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
Does your twin have “rights” on your genomes?
Randall Parker asks, Genetic Privacy And Identical Twins:
Suppose you have a right to genetic privacy. You might believe you do. Suppose you have an identical twin. Suppose the identical twin decides to publish his (or her) genetic sequence on the web….
Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion
Link to review: The dismal gods
Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Link to review: Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Descartes’ Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
Link to review: Inducing Disgust
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Link to review: Who’s the barbarian now? Empires of the Silk Road
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
Your genome is mine! (?)
Guest blogging at Genetic Future Mischa Angrist has a post up critiquing the defense of the lack of disclosure of genetic/genomic information to research participants. Mischa begins:
Readers of Genetic Future, Genomics Law Report and Genomes Unzipped …
Why siblings differ differently
The Pith: In this post I examine how looking at genomic data can clarify exactly how closely related siblings really are, instead of just assuming that they’re about 50% similar. I contrast this randomness among siblings to the hard & fast de…
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Link to review: The wheel of history turns to the gods.
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Link to review: The wheel of history turns to the gods.
Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
Link to review: Historical Dynamics and contingent conditions of religion
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Cliodynamics, the rise & fall of empires and asabiya
Egypt vs. Indonesia in attitudes
TNR has a post up, Egypt and Indonesia. In it, the author argues that:
At times of unexpected but momentous political change in distant countries, we grasp onto political analogies to help get our bearings. Even if we know they are imperfect, we can’…
Diminishing returns of ancestry analysis (for me)
Zack has finally started posting results from HAP. To the left you see the results generated at K = 5 from his merged data set with the first 10 HAP members. I am HRP002. Zack is HRP001. Paul G., who is an ethnic Assyrian, is HRP010. Some others have already “outed” themselves, so I could […]
My family’s Neandertal genes, ii
Last week I reported that it turns out that one of my siblings carry a possible Neandertal haplotype on the dystrophin gene. To review, it seems likely that ~3% of the average non-African’s genome is derived from Neandertal populations. But by an…