Category: Family
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Evolution and human family
1950s nuclear family in the USAFor many people who grew up in the United States in the years after World War II, it was a time of stability and a return to old verities and values. In those decades one saw the flourishing of the “nuclear family.” Mothe…
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The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 30: Evolution of Family
The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 30: Evolution of FamilyThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts) Razib talks to Dr. Rebecca Sear, a behavioral ecologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi…
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The waning of the nuclear family
‘The Waltons’ Meets ‘Modern Family’: A Pew Research Center study, “The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household,” published long before the most recent, even higher census figures, revealed that in 2008 a record 49 million American…
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Toward healthier gestations
Neuroskeptic has a post up, The Coming Age of Fetal Genomics: So they don’t. Instead, they buy a $100 test kit, they each provide a small blood sample and send it off to one of the companies offering fetal genome testing. At the testing lab, they…
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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…