Gene Expression

A report in Science from the annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics focuses on copy number variation. Some interesting observations:Don Conrad and his colleagues at the Sanger In...

Some people have pointed out a major problem with the rendering of this website on IE. I think I fixed the stylesheet issue. Since the site was fine in IE until recently I'm pretty sure it was a Mi...

You probably already know this, but in case you don't, I'm somewhat involved in a new website, Secular Right. Heather Mac Donald, Derb and Walter Olson are current contributors. My own postings the...

From time to time I give links to those of my old posts that may still be worth reading. Previous guides are here: 1, 2, 3, 4.It is over two years since the last update. In that time most of my pos...

I thought I knew a fair amount about monkeys already, but a BBC wildlife documentary last night still had some surprises for me. The documentary is ouststanding even by the BBC's usual standards fo...

From Henry Harpending:This is from a 1984 paper, citation below the figure. The genetic data were 6 red cell antigens, 9 electrophoretic systems, and HLA and HLB. The context was the authors' effor...

I recently posted a note on an anticipation of Hamilton's concept of inclusive fitness by R. A. Fisher in the Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.As I pointed out, in that passage Fisher did not ...

In the comments below Susan C asks an interesting question:I'm still surprised that this works as well as it does, given that there were mass movements of people during the nineteenth and twentieth...

Dear Readers,Currently I'm compiling my own dataset of international cognitive test scores. Right now I'm moving on to China. China contains nearly 20% of the human species, with every province bei...

This week's To The Best Of Our Knowledge interviews George R. R. Martin. If you have iTunes just subscribe to their podcast and you'll see it on the list of shows (I don't know where to find it str...