The social goods of individual actions
Over at Genetic Future Dr. Daniel MacArthur has a measured response to a Nature commentary by David Goldstein, Growth of genome screening needs debate. As Dr. MacArthur notes an excessive portion of Goldstein’s piece is taken up with inferences …
Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Link to review: Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History.
The rise of genetic architecture
In science, like most things, one prefers simple over complex whenever possible. You keep adding variables until the explanatory juice starts hitting diminishing marginal returns. So cystic fibrosis is due to a mutation at one gene, and the disease exp…