Month: February 2011
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
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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….
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Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion
Link to review: The dismal gods
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Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Link to review: Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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Descartes’ Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
Link to review: Inducing Disgust
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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
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
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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 …
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
Link to review: Historical Dynamics and contingent conditions of religion
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Cliodynamics, the rise & fall of empires and asabiya
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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’…
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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…
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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…