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	<title>Razib Khan</title>
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		<title>What if you are more likely to be a psychopath?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/what-if-you-are-more-likely-to-be-a-psychopath/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/what-if-you-are-more-likely-to-be-a-psychopath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the comments below Nathaniel Comfort asks:
What I do, as a historian, is take something apparently simple and make it more complicated. I wonder about how your curves, e.g., would be applied in real life. *Specific* couples, *particular* children–...]]></description>
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		<title>Violence in Science</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/violence-in-science/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/violence-in-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The special &#8220;Human Conflict&#8221; issue of Science seems free if you register. No time to read it now, but there&#8217;s a lot of interesting looking articles. (via Dienekes)
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		<title>We are all special (genomically)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/we-are-all-special-genomically/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/we-are-all-special-genomically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Hawks already discussed the Keinan and Clark paper in Science, Recent Explosive Human Population Growth Has Resulted in an Excess of Rare Genetic Variants. To borrow a critique, much of human genomics up to this point has been WEIRD. A reanalysis ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bias in psychology</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/bias-in-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/bias-in-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Yong has a piece in Nature on the problems of confirmation bias and replication in psychology. Yong notes that &#8220;It has become common practice, for example, to tweak experimental designs in ways that practically guarantee positive results.&#38;#822...]]></description>
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		<title>Genes are overrated, genetics is underrated</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/genes-are-overrated-genetics-is-underrated/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/genes-are-overrated-genetics-is-underrated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago Nathaniel Comfort pointed me to this post, Genetic determinism round-up. If you are curious go read Comfort&#8217;s whole post. I honestly didn&#8217;t enjoy it very much, I think I got what he was saying, but there were all sorts of cir...]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham’s genetic threads</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/abrahams-genetic-threads/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/abrahams-genetic-threads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every few days my Google Alerts have been dropping in my inbox reviews of Harry Osters&#8217; Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People. The latest is in the The Tablet, A Case for Genetic Jewishness:
For a Jewish genetics researcher, being told i...]]></description>
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		<title>It doesn’t always get “better”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/it-doesnt-always-get-better/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/it-doesnt-always-get-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The History News Network has a post up, Now It&#8217;s Obama Who&#8217;s Our First Gay President!, which hammers home points which I&#8217;ve been making implicitly and explicitly about historical processes, especially in the United States:
Today, I kn...]]></description>
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		<title>Porn, a new age, an old age, and all that</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/TKH66kXvr8A/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/TKH66kXvr8A/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been commenting on internet porn for nearly 10 years. One reason is that as someone who graduated high school in the spring of 1995 I&#8217;m probably in the very last cohort of American males for whom pornography was an item subject to scar...]]></description>
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		<title>Collective “honor”</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/collective-honor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/collective-honor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second came after Mr. Jungreis complained, and the man accused of the abuse was arrested. Old friends started walking stonily past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Malagasy Ancestry Project</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/the-malagasy-ancestry-project/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/the-malagasy-ancestry-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 04:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Malagasy Ancestry Project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a heads up, Dr. Joseph K. Pickrell has begun moving on the Malagasy Ancestry Project. More information:
The genetics of the Malagasy people have been essentially unstudied. Analysis of Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA markers have corroborated t...]]></description>
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		<title>The bell curve of personality?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/sWoiSZXMV80/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/sWoiSZXMV80/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I stopped reading much in the area of personality and behavior genetics a few years back. The main reason is I had a really hard time believing there were very good quantitative measures of many of the traits. A secondary issue, though probably nearly...]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for the memories</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/thanks-for-the-memories/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/thanks-for-the-memories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not big into music, being of the aesthetically retarded set, but as I age memory becomes more important, and that is strongly colored by music. The 80s anthems of the Beastie Boys were part of the cultural firmament for me, but at that stage ...]]></description>
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		<title>The great pruning, and the great synthesis</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/AkEb_5gclL0/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/AkEb_5gclL0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Farmers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Sahul 10,000 years ago
John Hawks has a very long rumination on the story of blonde Melanesians which came out last week. If I can read between the lines I think some of the implications dovetail with John&#8217;s thesis in his 2007 paper on adaptive ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reification is alright by me!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uYpGom-yG0M/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uYpGom-yG0M/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time readers know that I&#8217;m generally OK with reification as long as we don&#8217;t take it too seriously. And we do that all the time. An &#8220;object&#8221; is really only an &#8220;object&#8221; in a human-sense. Reduced down to particle...]]></description>
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		<title>It all started with talk.origins (and Usenet)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uU5bRcBL2yY/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uU5bRcBL2yY/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 04:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chatting with Dan MacArthur on twitter about the old days of Usenet, and arguing with Creationists in the days of yore (MacArthur actually flipped a Creationist!). Here&#8217;s a toast to the innocence of that bygone age around the turn-of-the-century&#38;...]]></description>
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		<title>Finding fake roots</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/YZeke-vpok4/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/YZeke-vpok4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 08:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finding Your Roots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t watched much of Henry Louis Gates Jr.&#8217;s Finding Your Roots series. It seems like Gates has kind of created a mini-empire in genealogical series on PBS. More power to him, but it hit diminishing returns for me a long time ago. But ...]]></description>
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		<title>Genetics and genomics projects galore!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/K8o7l3u_qe8/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/K8o7l3u_qe8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I would pass these on. A graduate student at Rice is trying to raise some funds for research, Genopolitics: Your Genes Affect How You Vote!. The methodology is a twin study:
To test this, I&#8217;ll track how genes affect attitudes during the 2...]]></description>
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		<title>Every tribune a Rick Santorum!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/6d9E6iuGImk/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/6d9E6iuGImk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 08:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the power of Islamists in Tunisia and Egypt made itself felt, and current domination of Iraq by Shia political parties, and the likely strength of Islamists in Libya, the media finally has become more cautious about pushing any narrative which ma...]]></description>
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		<title>Bell Beakers and R1b</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/-G40TWmNnGM/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/-G40TWmNnGM/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 07:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bell Beaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R1b]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Over at Dienekes blog he has a post up about the extraction of R1b from a male who lived in Germany 4-5,000 in the past. This is important because R1b is one of the two most common male lineages (on the Y chromosome, passed from father to son) in Euro...]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins accepts the usefulness of race</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/richard-dawkins-accepts-the-usefulness-of-race/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/richard-dawkins-accepts-the-usefulness-of-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a variety of responses to my column in The Crux on race. To be fair, because the audience for The Crux does not consist of genome nerds I engaged in some first approximations which some readers have taken objection to. For example, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Case closed: blonde Melanesians understood</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/VWGpzn5op1M/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/VWGpzn5op1M/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 06:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blonde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blondism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melanesian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a small child perusing old physical anthropology books I would occasionally stumble upon images of people of Oceanian stock with light hair color. I would wonder: is this a biological or cultural feature? In other words, were people bleaching their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent squid are our brothers &amp; sisters too!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/intelligent-squid-are-our-brothers-sisters-too/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/intelligent-squid-are-our-brothers-sisters-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bioethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palaeogenetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nature has a Peopling the planet issue out that is worth reading. Lots of the features are free to the public, but Chris Stringer&#8217;s comment is not. Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns. Not what is,...]]></description>
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		<title>Unz Historical Research Competition</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Ob4gLonbXaY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unz Historical Research Competition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For your consideration:
As a means of publicizing the vast quantity of high-quality content material uniquely available on its recently released website, UNZ.org is announcing a historical research competition.
A First Prize of $10,000 and several ...]]></description>
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		<title>The “Shaggy assertion” – just pretend you’re right</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/_Lb90XsKO4o/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 07:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As most long time readers know I generally screen to at least a cursory level comments by people who have not posted before. Except for purposes of entertainment only I won&#8217;t publish Creationist comments. Naturally some comments are offensive, bu...]]></description>
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		<title>The two audiences of a science weblog</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/dJ2SkP5KE74/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 06:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started blogging in 2002 the aim, as much as there was one, was to cultivate a particular following. But almost immediately Randall Parker noticed that traffic to his weblogs were driven not just by conventional blog readers who became &#38;#8...]]></description>
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		<title>The oracle of personal genomics</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/ROf1iy6LwAU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 05:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Awl had a rather unoriginal piece up recently, Everything I Didn&#8217;t Learn From Taking A Personal Genome Test (this is part of a genre which will probably crest in the next few years, before widespread genotyping becomes common, demystifying t...]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, themes, etc.</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/05/01/comments-themes-etc/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/05/01/comments-themes-etc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 03:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader brought it to my attention that on Chrome/Firefox the new theme was forcing registration. That was not the setting in WordPress, but the caprice of the theme. An issue I did not notice because I am always registered. I&#8217;ve reverted to the old theme, which does not seem to have the problem with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your child’s genome before the 2nd trimester?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/QAkvXugwcnw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 02:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A long piece in Slate, Will Gattaca come True?:
When Lo licensed his technology to Sequenom, he stipulated that it could not be used for sex selection. Rabinowitz says Natera won’t test for sex at this point, either. But how long such provisions will...]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining “impact factor”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/redefining-impact-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In rereading the paper on Pygmy height genetics, I noticed that PLoS had rolled out some nice new metrics. To my shock this paper, which I think is a moderately big deal, had less than 1,000 views, and only ~150 PDF downloands! This is going to change,...]]></description>
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		<title>Pygmies: “old” populations, and a new “look” (?)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/L19fkZl9xF4/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/L19fkZl9xF4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pygmies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years one issue that crops up repeatedly in human evolutionary genetics and paleoanthropology (or more precisely, the popular exposition of the topics in the media) is the idea that is that &#8220;population X are the most ancient Y.&#8221; X ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rise and fall of celebutantes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/rise-and-fall-of-celebutantes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/rise-and-fall-of-celebutantes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian was at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Wow. But it made me wonder whatever happened to Paris Hilton? Did she drop off the face of the earth? Here&#8217;s Google Trends:

The bottom panel is news, the top panel public s...]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing American conservative Protestants &amp; Muslims</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/comparing-american-conservative-protestants-muslims/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/comparing-american-conservative-protestants-muslims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago a book came out, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. The title clearly was aimed to push copies, but the gist of the title has moderately wide circulation. The rough sketch is that conser...]]></description>
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		<title>Her identity by descent made flesh</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/TwhGS9WLwgU/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/TwhGS9WLwgU/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have indicated before, my daughter has a family tree where everyone out to 0.25 coefficient of relatedness has been genotyped by 23andMe. This is convenient in many ways. Before, relatedness was a theory. Now relatedness can be ascertained on the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan has always been secular</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/04/29/japan-has-always-been-secular/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/04/29/japan-has-always-been-secular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an otherwise fascinating column on Japan&#8217;s peculiar demographics, Ross Douthat presents one misleading fact: Japan is facing such swift demographic collapse, Eberstadt’s essay suggests, because its culture combines liberalism and traditionalism in particularly disastrous ways. On the one hand, the old sexual culture, oriented around arranged marriage and family obligation, has largely collapsed. Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren, Native American</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Ubzxn48d-jM/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Elizabeth Warren, Native American

It has come to my attention that Elizabeth Warren, who is running for a Senate seat in Massachusetts, claims Native American ancestry. This did not surprise me. Warren is from Oklahoma, where nearly 10% of the popul...]]></description>
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		<title>Facing the ocean</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/XghKYPAO5lU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Halford Mackinder&#8217;s conceptualization of the world

With the recent publication of the paper on the archaeogenetics of Neolithic Sweden I feel like we&#8217;re nearing a precipice. That precipice overlooks lands of great richness, filled with ho...]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: the model that wasn’t</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/i7m5dqWYYZU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The magazine Foreign Policy recently had a &#8220;sex&#8221; issue out. This issue is particularly famous for Mona Eltahaway&#8217;s jeremiad against Arab male culture, and their attitudes toward women. Over at bloggingheads.tv Charli Carpenter express...]]></description>
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		<title>Handicap breeds excellence?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/handicap-breeds-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/handicap-breeds-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a wide-ranging story in LA Weekly on the decline of 35mm film. It covers a lot of angles, but this one issue jumped out at me:
No wonder, then, that directors like Christopher Nolan worry that if 35mm film dies, so will the gold standard ...]]></description>
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		<title>Handicap breeds excellence?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/handicap-breeds-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/handicap-breeds-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a wide-ranging story in LA Weekly on the decline of 35mm film. It covers a lot of angles, but this one issue jumped out at me:
No wonder, then, that directors like Christopher Nolan worry that if 35mm film dies, so will the gold standard ...]]></description>
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		<title>America: as if it is 1970</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/america-as-if-it-is-1970/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/america-as-if-it-is-1970/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interracial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that The Washington Post had an article up, Number of biracial babies soars over past decade, based on 2010 Census data. I was immediately curious if my expectations were correct in this case, because the term &#8220;biracial&#8221; has a ver...]]></description>
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		<title>The last days of Grendel</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/qqreyI-UUSQ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new paper in Science has just been published which in its broad outlines has been described in conference presentations. When examining the autosomal genetic variation of three individuals of the hunter-gatherer Pitted Ware Culture (PWC), and one of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Types of genetics</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/9FCJ7cKXIRE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Molecular genetics
Developmental genetics
Population genetics
Quantitative genetics
Phylogenetics

Thoughts? Recently had a discussion whether phylogeneticists considered themselves geneticists (qualified &#8220;no&#8221;). Quantitative genetics really...]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes men like women like the Chinese like pork</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/sometimes-men-like-women-like-the-chinese-like-pork/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/sometimes-men-like-women-like-the-chinese-like-pork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brownpundits.com/?p=7781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Do They Hate Us?, is a powerful and moving jeremiad by Mona Eltahawy. It accurately describes without dispute the sorry state of female flourishing in the Middle East, broadly understood. And yet I wonder at the quasi-Freudian rationale on offer, that these men &#8220;hate&#8221; women. A  rationale of this sort seems more derived from the worries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaning the wrong way?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/PcwFsA9qj08/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/PcwFsA9qj08/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature vs. Nurture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the people I socialize with in &#8220;real life&#8221; have a biological sciences background. That being said, a relatively deep understanding of ncRNA does not give you any better sense of behavior genetics than the person off the street. And ...]]></description>
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		<title>One baby, alone on a PCA island</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/HLSqmLi0-DM/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/HLSqmLi0-DM/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A week ago I reported that according to 23andMe I&#8217;m 40% Asian, and she is 8% Asian (in the future if I say &#8220;she&#8221; without explanation, you know of whom I speak). Obviously something is off here. The situation resolved itself when I tu...]]></description>
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		<title>The world is as it should be in personal genomics</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-world-is-as-it-should-be-in-personal-genomics/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-world-is-as-it-should-be-in-personal-genomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having some fun with my daughter&#8217;s personal genomics. You see, she has her whole pedigree out to r = 1/4. So, for example, contributions from her grandparents seem to be about on this order:
Paternal grandfather = 0.28
Paternal gr...]]></description>
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		<title>An algorithm is just an algorithm</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/I5PkZdXBBHo/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/I5PkZdXBBHo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the comments below:
You should include a Moroccan or otherwise native North African sample. Without a North African sample West Africans act as proxy for some of that North African ancestry that does exist in Iberia, specially the Western third (Por...]]></description>
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		<title>Paternity most assured</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/paternity-most-assured/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/paternity-most-assured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-paternity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The myth that 10 percent of children the product of &#8216;non-paternity events&#8217; is rather persistent. I have no idea why, but I do know that even biologists accept it. But how we can we continue to accept this when surnames can provide populatio...]]></description>
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		<title>The culture that is Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/_IRp4FDvK_w/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/_IRp4FDvK_w/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft:
Large companies have overheads, a necessary evil, you say. Overheads need to be managed. And managed they are: Group Managers, Program managers, General managers, together with ‘Senior’...]]></description>
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		<title>A deeper dive analysis of two Cubans</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/a-deeper-dive-analysis-of-two-cubans/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/a-deeper-dive-analysis-of-two-cubans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I put up a post put on an analysis of a paper which reported on the ancestral make up of 50 Cubans (as well as assorted other Hispanic/Latino groups). One aspect of the paper which was somewhat notable is that 1 out of 3 Cubans were 90...]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity: a pagan heresy</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/04/22/christianity-a-pagan-heresy/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/04/22/christianity-a-pagan-heresy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/?p=7241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ross Douthat has a provocatively titled book out, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, so he&#8217;s making the media rounds. In general I find Douthat to be an interesting thinker, but there is one domain where I feel that he lacks a proper sense of balance, and that is in the domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of IE; the rise of Chrome</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/LUfxL7ssSQI/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/LUfxL7ssSQI/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Browsers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A comment below prompted me to recheck the browser stats on the web. People are now starting to give Google crap for not having really hit the jackpot on anything since Gmail, especially after the flubs with Google Wave and Buzz, and the mixed reviews ...]]></description>
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		<title>No sin in homogamy</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/no-sin-in-homogamy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/no-sin-in-homogamy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brownpundits.com/?p=7737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the New York Times had an article, For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds. I didn&#8217;t mind the piece myself, but it deals in lots of stereotypes of white people. For example: &#8220;“I didn’t like that he thought that was weird,” she said. “That’s my role in the family. As I grew older, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The billion SNPs of Alba?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/mxN25LrKrPY/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/mxN25LrKrPY/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A man of astonishing multitudes?
Daniel MacArthur points me to one of the funniest historical genetic popular write-ups I&#8217;ve seen in years. Study reveals &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; DNA of people in Scotland:
Researchers believe that Scotland&#38;#8...]]></description>
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		<title>The genome is a structure, not just an abstraction</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/40-LWeM0R4Y/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/40-LWeM0R4Y/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick follow-up on the study which purported to illustrate the shortcomings in genomic risks prediction, and received major media coverage:
Neil Risch, PhD, a leading expert in statistical genetics and the director of the UCSF Institute ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestry painting: true but trivial, or interesting but inaccurate</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/JbAAlvrLZew/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/JbAAlvrLZew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[23andMe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[23andMe has done some great things, and I highly recommend its service to friends. But I&#8217;m really glad that CeCe Moore is being consulted by them in regards to improving their ancestry feature set. Below are the &#8220;ancestry paintings&#8221; f...]]></description>
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		<title>Grandparents as reality, not theory</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Qfx83fUHQQM/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Qfx83fUHQQM/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not particularly mystical or sentimental about genetics. I favor openness. But I just started getting my daughter&#8217;s results back from 23andMe, and some of her coefficients of relatedness to her grandparents deviated sharply from 0.25. As I h...]]></description>
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		<title>If you are not too stupid you can be in Mensa</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/ZLyd-rF0bbI/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/ZLyd-rF0bbI/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized tests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is 4-Year-Old as Smart as Einstein? Not Quite, Scientists Say:
One of the latest members of the high-IQ club Mensa is a mere 4 years old, with an IQ of 159 — but psychologists warn against pulling out the Albert Einstein comparisons just yet.
&#8230;...]]></description>
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		<title>Standardized test scores: math and verbal</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/HpmAR3mtvPo/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/HpmAR3mtvPo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prompted by miko&#8217;s skepticism about the utility of WORDSUM (a vocab test) across subcultures, I went and looked for SAT data. My assumption was that math sections are more &#8220;culture-fair&#8221; (though from what I gather ETS tries hard in va...]]></description>
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		<title>Reprising genes &amp; geography</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/tAtgeld7wBg/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/tAtgeld7wBg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genes and geography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Comparing Spatial Maps of Human Population-Genetic Variation Using Procrustes Analysis:
Recent applications of principal components analysis (PCA) and multidimensional scaling (MDS) in human population genetics have found that &#8220;statistical maps&#38;#...]]></description>
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		<title>None dare call it eugenics!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/LTqOEM965No/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/LTqOEM965No/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, almost no one:
&#8220;The unspoken central reason for the societal taboo and the penal ban on incest is the possibility of hereditary defects &#8212; a factor that Strasbourg only hinted at. But the intention behind the eugenic argument is one th...]]></description>
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		<title>Common variant for “IQ gene”?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Hl403SY5eIY/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Hl403SY5eIY/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few people have forwarded me this paper, Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes:
&#8230;Whereas many brain imaging phenotypes are highly heritable&#8230;identifying and replicating genetic influen...]]></description>
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		<title>Group selection survey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/group-selection-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/group-selection-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Selection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have time to do a detailed analysis of my group selection survey right now. So I&#8217;ve uploaded the raw results for anyone to play with (there is no personally identifying information obviously). You should be able to convert it into a...]]></description>
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		<title>The case of the white Cubans</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/yiMIxoO5AIE/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/yiMIxoO5AIE/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white Hispanics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a follow up to a post below, a new paper in PLoS Genetics has some data on American Hispanics. Specifically, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, and Cubans, as well as assorted Central and South Americans. I am not too interested in the cases excep...]]></description>
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		<title>Microryza: A Kickstarter for science?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/microryza-a-kickstarter-for-science/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/microryza-a-kickstarter-for-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microrzya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petridish.org]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was contacted by Microzyra, a Seattle based start-up. Their aim is do for science what Kickstarter has done for creative projects. Obviously I can&#8217;t vouch for them, but I am intrigued enough to eventually consider seeing if I can...]]></description>
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		<title>Verbal intelligence by demographic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WORDSUM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I put up a post, WORDSUM &#38; IQ &#38; the correlation, as a &#8220;reference&#8221; post. Basically if anyone objected to using WORDSUM, a variable in the General Social Survey, then I would point to that post and observe that the cor...]]></description>
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		<title>Against Microsoft Word</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/ZvhJty5ex5Q/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/ZvhJty5ex5Q/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until a few years ago if I had to use MS Office, I used Office 97. I&#8217;ve been using Open Office and its precursors going back to 2000, but sometimes people really want MS format, and the export and &#8220;save as&#8221; features of Open Office don...]]></description>
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		<title>Genes: still a pretty big deal</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/VMY2-NmgApc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature vs. Nurture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people say that having children gives you a much better sense of the power of genes in shaping behavior. At least in the abstract sense that is not true in my case. I accept the &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; from behavior genetics that &#8220;...]]></description>
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		<title>The Anglosphere American exception (?)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/1VkcolxcrMc/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/1VkcolxcrMc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PLoS ONE has another article up about admixture in Argentina. The interesting aspect is that in its self-conception Argentina, like the United States of America or Australia, is a European settler nation, and therefore unlike Mexico, Boliva, or Brazil,...]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Replication</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/dna-replication/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/dna-replication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you have probably seen this stylized graphic somewhere along the away (I think it was on PBS at some point). But it&#8217;s still cool&#8230;.

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		<title>Bangladeshi labor conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/bangladeshi-labor-conflict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/bangladeshi-labor-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Killing of Bangladeshi Labor Organizer Signals an Escalation in Violence. I have pretty much zero insight to offer, aside from this anecdote: even my wealthy uncle complains that servants are much harder to find today. They&#8217;re all working. Not to be a Marxist, but his sort of class conflict is an unfortunate side effect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way we were</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/fy7rvjMY2DI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I found out today that a private equity firm has purchased the majority of the Yellow Pages from AT&#38;T. Which prompts me to ask: when was the last time you used the yellow pages? A pay phone? In a similar vein, Google And The Death Of Getting Lost....]]></description>
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		<title>The way we were</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-way-we-were/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-way-we-were/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I found out today that a private equity firm has purchased the majority of the Yellow Pages from AT&#38;T. Which prompts me to ask: when was the last time you used the yellow pages? A pay phone? In a similar vein, Google And The Death Of Getting Lost....]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding across cultures</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/lRfAMtf2pgo/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/lRfAMtf2pgo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the non-science aspects of this weblog which I&#8217;ve been addressing over the past 10 years is attempting to get a grip upon cultural variation. There are two major dimensions in terms of the problem. One is positive, in that people don&#38;#8217...]]></description>
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		<title>What do you think about group selection?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/dctPFceff2w/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/dctPFceff2w/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group Selection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received a review copy of E. O. Wilson&#8217;s The Social Conquest of Earth. One of the reasons why this book is &#8220;hot&#8221; is that Wilson has recently been revisiting the &#8220;levels of selection&#8221; debates, and significantly downg...]]></description>
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		<title>Another look at mtDNA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/another-look-at-mtdna/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/another-look-at-mtdna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mtDNA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new article in The American Journal of Human Genetics, A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root, is open access, so you should check it out. The discussion gets to the heart of the matter:
Supported by a con...]]></description>
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		<title>Baby tossing</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/baby-tossing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/baby-tossing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Fluff &amp; more</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Te9IZ8CYuko/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Te9IZ8CYuko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fluff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katz]]></category>

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		<title>Doctors and life expectacy</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/i-3g8vvcKp8/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/i-3g8vvcKp8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend pointed me to the following infographic on the concentration of doctors per county. The orange represents &#8220;very high need,&#8221; and dark blue &#8220;very low need.&#8221;

Now let&#8217;s compare it to life expectancy by county:

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		<title>Yoga and religion</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/yoga-and-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/yoga-and-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brownpundits.com/?p=7651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Queens, Seeking to Clear a Path Between Yoga and Islam: As a community activist in Queens, Muhammad Rashid has fought for the rights of immigrants held in detention, sought the preservation of local movie theaters, and held a street fair to promote diversity. But few of those causes brought him anywhere near as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding ethnic biased sex slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/understanding-ethnic-biased-sex-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/understanding-ethnic-biased-sex-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brownpundits.com/?p=7646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently on the NPR show Here and Now I was introduced to the concept of &#8216;loverboys.&#8217; This is a specific phenomenon in the Netherlands were older males target schoolgirls, and entrap them in relationships where these girls are prostituted out (there are repeated references to group sex). Even before it got to that part I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestant fundamentalists still reject evolution</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/CNQxYYLd220/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/CNQxYYLd220/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently over at bloggingheads.tv Matt Lewis broached the issue of science, religion, and politics. Being outside of his bailiwick Lewis seemed to be under some misimpressions. First, he seemed to think that most political liberals were not theists. Th...]]></description>
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		<title>Genes are probability, not destiny</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/genes-are-probability-not-destiny/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/genes-are-probability-not-destiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On my Facebook feed some geneticist friends of mine were passing around an article in The New York Times, Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited. The article is based on a paper, The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing. In...]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones is racist!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/game-of-thrones-is-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/game-of-thrones-is-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t going to post more today, in light of the April Fool&#8217;s joke I played on you. But here&#8217;s me going at it again. Lots of stuff I wouldn&#8217;t normally stumble upon hits me via Pulse, and today I see this in Salon, Is “Game o...]]></description>
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		<title>It was a good decade (UPDATE)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-end-of-razib-khan-gene-expression/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/04/the-end-of-razib-khan-gene-expression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update:  Actually, I was going to put up a post &#8220;10 years in blogging.&#8221; But right now I don&#8217;t have the time, seriously. 10 years is a LONG time though, so I now feel more comfortable talking about events &#8220;offline&#8221; which d...]]></description>
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		<title>What turns a blue-eyed girl brown?</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/what-turns-a-blue-eyed-girl-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brownpundits.com/what-turns-a-blue-eyed-girl-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m questing about for some answers. My daughter is now two months old, and to the left is an image of her eye. As you can see, they are blue. I was not particularly surprised that she was born with blue eyes. Her mother is of Northern European heritage. But, I&#8217;ve had both of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When little differences matter a great deal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/when-little-differences-matter-a-great-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/when-little-differences-matter-a-great-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Altruism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the comment below Clark alludes to the fact that Jonathan Haidt kept reiterating that even if there were differences between populations due to recent evolution, if it was due to selection on standing variation upon quantitative traits then the betw...]]></description>
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		<title>Jonah Lehrer, science fiction writer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/jonah-lehrer-science-fiction-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/jonah-lehrer-science-fiction-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s back, and he&#8217;s out with a new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. I am talking of course about Jonah Lehrer, the enfant terrible of cognitive neuroscience. OK, perhaps more Wunderkind. In any case, I was struck by this post on his web...]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Haidt &amp; Robert Wright: crazy delicious</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/jonathan-hadit-robert-wright-crazy-delicious/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/jonathan-hadit-robert-wright-crazy-delicious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Last night I listened to a very long discussion between Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal, and Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. If you have been reading my weblog for years the...]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Neolithic revenge of the foragers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/post-neolithic-revenge-of-the-foragers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/post-neolithic-revenge-of-the-foragers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers vs. Foragers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I have something to share, why not share it? Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been ruminating on some of the possible intersections between historical population genetics and anthropology, especially in light of the discussion that I&#8217;ve had ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Folkways in Flux</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/cultural-folkways-in-flux/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/cultural-folkways-in-flux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American historical "dark matter"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating post over at The Crux, Votes and Vowels: A Changing Accent Shows How Language Parallels Politics. Here&#8217;s the section which I might quibble with though:
Labov points out that the residents of the Inland North have long-standing diffe...]]></description>
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		<title>Revenge of the herders</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/revenge-of-the-herders/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/revenge-of-the-herders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me make something explicit: I believe that the model outlined in First Farmers is too simple, and that extant patters of linguistic and genetic variation need to accept the likelihood of multiple population reorganizations across vast swaths of Eur...]]></description>
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		<title>The real secret history of the Mongols?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/the-real-secret-history-of-the-mongols/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/the-real-secret-history-of-the-mongols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Thank god for steppe hyper-patriarchy; it&#8217;s a model which we can test. Dienekes points me to a paper, The Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan&#8217;s descendants is present at high frequency in the Kerey clan from Kazakhstan...]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Precedings closes up shop</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/nature-precedings-closes-up-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/nature-precedings-closes-up-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Pickrell Shutdown Nature Precedings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pickrell Affair II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the announcement:
As of April 3rd 2012, we will cease to accept submissions to Nature Precedings. Nature Precedings will then be archived, and the archive will be maintained by NPG, while all hosted content will remain freely accessible to...]]></description>
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		<title>How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-game-of-thrones-should-have-ended/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-game-of-thrones-should-have-ended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t watched most of the films (or video games, or T.V. shows) being parodied by How It Should Have Ended. But I have read A Game of Thrones. So I&#8217;m confused as to why this struck me as rather unfunny, in comparison to most of the othe...]]></description>
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		<title>How culture crashes clines</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-culture-crashes-clines/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-culture-crashes-clines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pashtun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The USA has been in Afghanistan for over 10 years now. Like many Americans my own personal preference is that we get out as soon as possible. Because of American involvement we see terms like &#8220;Pashtun&#8221; bandied about in the media, but there...]]></description>
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		<title>Targaryen genetic load</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/targaryen-genetic-load/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/targaryen-genetic-load/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Song of Ice and Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to point you to this post on royal inbreeding in A Song of Ice and Fire. They reference my post on the Habsburgs. Well done! In any case, one possibility is that the Targaryen lineage may have purged their genetic load through inbreeding. The ba...]]></description>
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		<title>Conserving a non-existent past, revering radicalism’s forgotten</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/03/27/conserving-a-non-existent-past-revering-radicalisms-forgotten/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/2012/03/27/conserving-a-non-existent-past-revering-radicalisms-forgotten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/?p=7120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I watched this Christian duet&#8217;s paean&#8217;s ode to Rick Santorum and was struck by the references to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I am aware that Christian conservatives have a &#8220;Constitutionalist&#8221; focus, and often suggest that the Founding Fathers were &#8220;Bible believing Christians.&#8221; In regards to the latter the historical record speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How income, class, religion, etc. relate to political party</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-income-class-religion-etc-relate-to-political-party/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/how-income-class-religion-etc-relate-to-political-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: There was a major coding error. I&#8217;ve rerun the analysis. No qualitative change.
As is often the case a 10 minute post using the General Social Survey is getting a lot of attention. Apparently circa 1997 web interfaces are so intimidating...]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of the human face</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/I71TOg6hoTc/</link>
		<comments>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/I71TOg6hoTc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craniofacial traits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolutionary Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The face is an important aspect of our phenotype. So important that facial recognition is one of many innate reflexive cognitive competencies. By this, I mean that you can recognize a face in a gestalt manner, just like you can recognize a set of three marbles. You don&#8217;t have to think about it in a [...]]]></description>
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