{"id":75402,"date":"2012-12-18T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19354"},"modified":"2012-12-18T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T10:04:08","slug":"gene-surfing-with-david-dobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/18\/gene-surfing-with-david-dobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene surfing with David Dobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>National Geographic<\/em> David Dobbs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/neuronculture\/\">Neuron Culture<\/a> has an eminently readable and engrossing piece up, <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/01\/restless-genes\/dobbs-text\">Restless Genes<\/a>. I have never really read about <a href=\"http:\/\/mbe.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/23\/3\/482.full\">&#8216;allele surfing&#8217;<\/a> on the wave of demographic expansion in the way that Dobbs&#8217; rendered it. I certainly wouldn&#8217;t have been able to produce that sort of spare but informative prose.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter there was some concern about the focus on <em>DRD4<\/em>. The issue is a general one in much of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomesunzipped.org\/2011\/11\/size-matters-and-other-lessons-from-medical-genetics.php\">behavioral genomics<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not too interested in rehashing the point. But the broader question of <strong>heritability of behavior remains<\/strong>. It seems to me that we have some &#8216;natural experiments&#8217; now. For the past 50 years there have been a series of cross-cultural adoptions from Asia to North America and Europe. If human behavior variation across and within populations is substantially heritable than this might be a good place to start. Rather than focusing on genes, we need to focus on heritability first.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/SVUZ_Br09qg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at National Geographic David Dobbs of Neuron Culture has an eminently readable and engrossing piece up, Restless Genes. I have never really read about &lsquo;allele surfing&rsquo; on the wave of demographic expansion in the way that Dobbs&rsquo; rendered it. I certainly wouldn&rsquo;t have been able to produce that sort of spare but informative prose. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75759,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75402\/revisions\/75759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}