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	<title>Razib Khan</title>
	
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		<title>Why race as a biological construct matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don&#8217;t have that much time, and the core readership here is probably not going to get any new information from me, since this is not an area of hot novel research. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angelina Jolie, Myriad Genetics, &amp; patents on genes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of Angelina Jolie&#8217;s revelation, the Myriad Genetics case is in the news again. If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, look it up. Because of the patent Myriad can charge thousands of dollars for a test which would otherwise be much cheaper (and putting it out of reach of many without health insurance). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kings of Minos were not Pharaohs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 08:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I predicted to some friends that ancient DNA would transform our understanding of the human past. The reason being that inferences of population movements via material remains were imprecise at best. We are beginning to see my prediction come to fruit (mind you, the prediction was not a bold or courageous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GATTACA: utopia or dystopia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Mitchell of Wiring the Brain has a very long post up inveighing against the specter of eugenics. I don&#8217;t have a great deal of time to engage Kevin right now.* But in addition to Kevin&#8217;s post I highly recommend this episode of WBUR&#8217;s On Point. It has Steve Hsu on, and he articulates many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 5/12/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 08:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The usual. I haven&#8217;t been able to blog much because of various other responsibilities, but I definitely do feel pent up posting energy. So when I come back I assume that I&#8217;ll have a lot of stuff to say. Meanwhile I&#8217;m chortling a bit about this bizarre attack on my friend Steve Hsu. Here&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the sauce is made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot Sauce]]></category>

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(via The Festival of Patience)
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		<title>Is the pornographic singularity real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above figure displays results from males in the General Social Survey who answer yes to the proposition that they&#8217;ve watched a pornographic film over the past year. This fact was cited in my post Porn, rape, and a &#8216;natural experiment&#8217;, to disabuse people of the notion that porn consumption has increased radically the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europeans share common ancestors to differing extents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 10:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standard apologies that I have had not the marginal time to blog much, but I thought it was important that I least note that Dr. Peter Ralph and Dr. Graham Coop&#8217;s paper on identity-by-descent segments and European populations and history is out in its final form in PLoS Biology, The Geography of Recent Genetic Ancestry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who the hell are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/05/09/who-the-hell-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 06:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea who reads this blog anymore. Who are you?
Related Posts:Petraeus on Afghanistan..More Zionist propaganda against PakistanAgainst Boko Haram, The Best Weapon Is A Lewd One.Dec 22Blog reinstall]]></description>
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		<title>Family values can suck and collective identities can melt away</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/05/08/family-values-can-suck-and-collective-identities-can-melt-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 23:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At The American Conservative Rod Dreher posts an email from an Indian American correspondent. It&#8217;s thoughtful, as befits an individual who is a medical professional. That being said my initial sentiment is in line with the first comment. That being &#8230; <a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/05/08/family-values-can-suck-and-collective-identities-can-melt-away/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><div>
<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/07/06/so-what-is-our-%E2%80%98pakistani%E2%80%99-identity/">So what is our &#8216;Pakistani&#8217; identity?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/09/05/being-an-atheist-with-a-muslim-name/">Being an atheist with a &#8220;Muslim name&#8221;</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/04/01/the-forgotten-east-part-2/">The forgotten East, part 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/10/19/from-simple-to-complex-ii/">From simple to complex ii</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/02/20/racial-self-identification-of-south-asian-americans/">Racial Self-Identification of South Asian Americans</a></li>
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		<title>SNL parody of Google Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some quarters it is now &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; that Google Glass is going to seem dorky and laughable at first. But it&#8217;s probably just the pre-alpha version of the type of technology which seems inevitable (and is familiar to anyone who has read cyberpunk science fiction).]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 5/5/2013</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/hZXqUvfywZ8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 06:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s thread was rather informative.]]></description>
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		<title>Most Muslims ‘accept’ human evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Just to be clear, I think the variation across cultures is probably explained in large part by confusion as to what is being asked, and differential sampling. In particular, I suspect that the &#8216;Turkey&#8221; sample is more representative than the &#8220;Bangladesh&#8221; sample, because Turkey is a more developed society. &#160; I&#8217;ve mentioned before that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternal-fetal health and natural selection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I was rather fixated on issues of maternal fetal health. In particular I was worried about gestational diabetes in relation to my wife because I come from an ethnic group with an elevated risk for these sorts of problems, and the effect when you are in mixed-race marriages seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternal-fetal health and natural selection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I was rather fixated on issues of maternal fetal health. In particular I was worried about gestational diabetes in relation to my wife because I come from an ethnic group with an elevated risk for theses sorts of problems, and the effect when you are in mixed-race marriages seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For old time&#8217;s sake. The cats have a new companion&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>Porn, rape, and a ‘natural experiment’</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/PzlHStKbcQA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pornography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: To be explicit, I&#8217;m not claiming that the correlation is causal. Rather, I&#8217;m pointing out that the explosion in porn use does not seem to have led to a concomitant explosion in sex crimes, which would have been the prediction by social conservatives and radical feminists if they could have known of the extent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 4/29/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s going on?]]></description>
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		<title>Turtles all the way down!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No time to comment extensively, but check out The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan (open access). The paper and the ScienceDaily press release allude to some phylogenetic confusion as to the relationship of turtles to other reptilian lineages, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against the seriousness of theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at The American Conservative Noah Millman and Rod Dreher are having a discussion over the basic premise that founding texts (e.g., Bible, Koran) and individuals (e.g., Jesus, Muhammad) have a deep influence upon the nature of a religion. Long time readers will be aware that I side much more with Millman on this. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of demic diffusion</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/L9DdDq3PCxA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I pointed to a paper which was interesting enough, but didn&#8217;t pass the smell test in relation to other evidence we have (at least in my opinion!). A primary concern was the fact that uniparental (male and female lineages) show a peculiar distribution of variation in comparison to autosomal genetic variation (i.e., the vast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Models are great, because rejection is easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new paper in PLoS ONE, Female and Male Perspectives on the Neolithic Transition in Europe: Clues from Ancient and Modern Genetic Data, which uses a combination of contemporary and ancient (that is, from subfossils) Y and mitochondrial DNA to understand the demographic past of Europe. Recall that the Y traces the direct male [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural selection in the comments</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/04/22/natural-selection-in-the-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy with things besides blogging (in any case, this is not my primary blog; I have one I actually get paid to write for another one). But when I read the comments I&#8217;m a little surprised at how &#8230; <a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/04/22/natural-selection-in-the-comments/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><div>
<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2010/12/30/hello-world-2/">Hello world.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/06/01/sophisticated-spammers/">Sophisticated Spammers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/04/20/my-genotype-is-public-domain/">My genotype is public domain</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/01/14/what-makes-bp-tick/">What makes BP tick?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/05/13/the-lure-of-bp/">The Lure of BP</a></li>
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		<title>The End of War is not inevitable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End of War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read John Horgan&#8217;s The End of War a few month ago now, but I haven&#8217;t gotten around to saying much about it. Part of the problem is that I don&#8217;t know what to think. It&#8217;s a small book which manages to wander in many different directions, and the primary focus is Horgan&#8217;s mantra that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why atheists can speak in the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Bill Maher ripped into CSU San Bernadino professor Brian Levin for making the ridiculous equivalence between Christian extremism and Islamic extremism. The problem, which Maher pinpoints, is that Islamic extremism is not that extreme. By this, I mean that Islamic extremism (e.g., Muslim Brotherhood) has much greater broad based support than Christian extremism (e.g., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sex gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reading Sexual Behavior in the United States: Results from a National Probability Sample of Men and Women Ages 14&#8211;94. At N ~ 6,000 it&#8217;s a large sample of American sexual behavior around 2010. There was one descriptive result which I thought was interesting, though not surprising. Before the age of 25 it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not all religions are the same</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/not-all-religions-are-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bill Maher clip has to be watched to be believed. Not the guest&#8217;s attempt to obfuscate. The fundamental issue is simple: most non-Muslims don&#8217;t care about Islam or Muslims so long as Islam and Muslims don&#8217;t impinge upon their lives. We don&#8217;t care about the heterogeneity of Islam or history when faced to real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 4/21/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t been posting much because I&#8217;ve busy with a lot of things right now. So tell me what&#8217;s been happening the past week?]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 4/14/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts?
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		<title>Don’t forget parents share genes with their offspring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2002 I read The Blank Slate. With all due respect to Steven Pinker one of the most fascinating aspects of this book was actually a review of the work of another psychologist, Judith Richard Harris. Harris&#8217; own views are explicated crisply in The Nurture Assumption. In it she reviews and expands on a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Ainu mariners!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/h1Ebplri5DM/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amerindians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not really. But a new paper in PLOS GENETICS has a really weird speculation nested into the discussion of what seems a relatively banal paper on the phylogeography of South Americans. It&#8217;s a Y chromosomal survey of the populations of the New World, so it&#8217;s tracing the male lineage only. Because Amerindian populations likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spice, it burns (a bit)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I came across this four year old article in The Wall Street Journal on the Naga Bhut Jolokia &#8220;ghost&#8221; pepper, which is reportedly hotter than Habanero. Since none of the local grocers carry the ghost pepper, I went online. I purchased some seeds. But I also ordered Dave&#8217;s Ghost Pepper Naga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are taller people more intelligent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: First, people coming to this weblog for the first time should know that I moderate comments. So if you leave an obnoxious one it&#8217;s basically like an email to me (no one will see it). Second, the correlation between height and intelligence is not that high. This association is probably not going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, the Mughals were colonial too</title>
		<link>http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/04/11/yes-the-mughals-were-colonial-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, depending on how you define it. See exchange below with a reader. The relationship between Indian civilization and Islam is long and fraught (dating back to the Umayyad conquest of Sindh). Between the 16th and 19th centuries the Mughals &#8230; <a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/04/11/yes-the-mughals-were-colonial-too/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><div>
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<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/01/08/india-as-an-islamicate-civilization/">India as an Islamicate civilization</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/02/13/where-secular-nationalism-lives/">Where secular nationalism lives</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/06/16/bengali-muslims-are-new/">Bengali Muslims are new (?)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2011/01/16/muslim-conversion-and-proportion/">Muslim Conversion in India Proper</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brownpundits.com/2012/08/10/history-of-religion-indian-context/">History of Religion (Indian context)</a></li>
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		<title>My 23andMe affiliate link</title>
		<link>http://www.razib.com/wordpress/?p=80217</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends have been asking if I have an affiliate code for 23andMe since I have been promoting it so much over the past few years. Well, I finally got one. Here it is: Razib&#8217;s 23andMe.com affiliate link. Full URL: http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-7088698-11032058]]></description>
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		<title>Managing the sea of data: Mendeley and PubChase</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/S7btjEOsyEA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every few months someone asks me what I use to manage my papers. Stupidly, I don&#8217;t use anything. Or I haven&#8217;t. Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been playing around with PubChase and Mendeley. You probably know of the latter, and the fact that it&#8217;s been purchased Elsevier. Elsevier is what it is. Mendeley&#160;on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genes are not just rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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Remember that genetics (in the Mendelian sense) predates the understanding of what a genes was in a material sense (a segment of DNA) by 50 years.
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		<title>Pedigree + Personal Genomics = More Insight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Feature was always there. Just hard to find. 23andMe did a site redesign. Most of it is user interface clean up, but there one particular cool function: if you have an individual&#8217;s pedigree up to grandparents you can see which allele they inherited. Just select &#8220;Family Traits&#8221; under &#8220;Family &#38; Friends.&#8221; You then get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why a foolish instinct?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the specific moment when I was 13 that I became aware of the 1950s hit &#8220;Why Do Fools Fall in Love&#8221; by Frankie Lymon &#38; The Teenagers. I&#8217;m rather sure I heard it before, but it didn&#8217;t penetrate my consciousness. But as we all know puberty changes things, and the idea of love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some macrohistorical context about Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/qtVuGdHQVdY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For whatever reason The New York Times has been putting out many articles on Myanmar recently. For example, Buddhist-Muslim Tensions Spread as 8 Detainees Die in Indonesia. Second, Ethnic Rifts Strain Myanmar as It Moves Toward Democracy. I&#8217;m a subscriber to The New York Times, so I think the paper of record is worthwhile. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does one need math for a career in science?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/-wZKqTGbfHM/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E. O. Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Math]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[E. O. Wilson has a op-ed in WSJ which I find quite interesting, Great Scientist &#8800; Good at Math: For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how can you do serious work in the sciences? Well, I have a professional secret to share: Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A plethora of beats</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/NynCF5sDT2w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the recent past the standard model of information distribution was one that had a few top-down nodes. There was print, television, and radio. Journalists collected a salary from the institution (obviously there were prominent exceptions in the form of famous columnists, but these were numerically not significant), which tasked them with specific beats. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 4/07/2013</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/053bIihrJCU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speak.
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		<title>W. D. Hamilton, the eternal child</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/A9kD3J627YE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution. W. D. Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature's Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One could argue that William Donald Hamilton is one of the most prominent scientific figures who has been influential upon the public understanding of the world around us, who the public nonetheless is totally unaware of. Many well educated individuals with an interest in science have some understanding of the concept of inclusive fitness, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pursuing the life of the mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Slate there is a piece out which is being shared on Facebook a fair amount, Thesis Hatement: Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor. As a contrast I think it is useful to read this other piece in Slate, Is a Science Ph.D. a Waste of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia, Sam Harris and Glenn Greenwald</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/islamophobia-sam-harris-and-glenn-greenwald/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/islamophobia-sam-harris-and-glenn-greenwald/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more maddening aspects of modern discourse is the attempt to interject the concept of racism into internecine ideological conflicts where it really isn&#8217;t appropriate. For example, some anti-Zionists label Zionism racism, and the state of Israel a racist state. And yet conversely, some supporters of the Zionist project label those who reject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genes are not a mirror upon our souls</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/6Vy6PJmskNU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have put 1 million markers (from a combination of Illumina SNP-chips) of mine online. I&#8217;m also going to put my sequence online when I get it done. Why? What do I gain from this? Hopefully I don&#8217;t gain anything from it. By this, I mean that the only major information that is actionable in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 3/31/2013</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/fqwqGZz_Tto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is upon us!
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		<title>Elephants without tusks?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/88yL-TiT_wo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has recently come to my attention that there is wide variation in the frequency of tuskless male elephants across populations. These individuals are termed maknas. To review, while both male and female African elephants have tusks, prominent tusks are only a feature of males in Asian elephants. Yet among wild Sri Lankans, which number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution in everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W. D. Hamilton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Nature&#8217;s Oracle (yes, a lengthy review will be up soonish) I am even more struck by how evolutionary process suffused W. D. Hamilton&#8217;s whole worldview. This resulted in some peculiar conflicts over his career with those who wished to partition evolutionary and biological processes away from the domain of humans. Of course Hamilton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On genetic privacy</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/bcobyS_FXZI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HeLa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Moran has a post up, Who Owns Your Genome?, where he mentions me apropos of the HeLa genome disclosure: In my opinion, there is no excuse for publishing this genome sequence without consent. Razib Khan disagrees. He thinks that he can publish his genome sequence without obtaining consent from anyone else and I assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inevitability of eugenics…as preventative health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:46:06 +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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then Richard Dawkins stirs controversy by bringing up the topic of eugenics. This is not surprising in terms of Dawkins&#8217; intellectual pedigree. The most influential British evolutionary biologist in the generation before Dawkins, R. A. Fisher, was a eugenicist. Arguably the most the most eminent evolutionist of Dawkins&#8217; own generation, W. D. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schizophrenia about genetics</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/TXP0QQcsu-Q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The genetics of schizophrenia is a fertile if fraught topic. But I won&#8217;t be discussing that in this post. Rather, I want to put the spotlight on a peculiar contradictory and illogical tendency in the contemporary American Zeitgeist: the gene is all-powerful, and the gene is irrelevant. The same people who raise eyebrows with skepticism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being the party at prayer, without alienating the prayerless</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/being-the-party-at-prayer-without-alienating-the-prayerless/</link>
		<comments>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/being-the-party-at-prayer-without-alienating-the-prayerless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weblog has been around for 4+ years now. It started as a way to give voice to people who lean Right who are not necessarily libertarian. America&#8217;s conservative party, the Republicans, have lost their second presidential election in a row to a definitively liberal candidate. Whether America is a &#8220;center-right&#8221; country, center-right politics are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 3/24/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comments which won&#8217;t make me want to shoot myself? We can hope!]]></description>
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		<title>On replacements for Google Reader, etc.</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/bmcRw29pUjU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the impending expiration of Google Reader, I have been using Feedly, and I like it quite a bit. So if you&#8217;ve been procrastinating, check it out. The Feedburner address for this blog is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeneExpressionBlog The blog content is of course pushed to Twitter: https://twitter.com/razibkhan Also, if for whatever reason you want Razib-curated-content, my Pinboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henrietta Lacks’ genome, and familial consent</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Wtbc8aeMMOg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Skloot has an op-ed in The New York Times, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel. I&#8217;ve read it a few times now and I&#8217;ll be honest and say I&#8217;m not totally clear on some of the points she&#8217;s trying to make, so I didn&#8217;t have a strong reaction to it. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pigmentation: the simplest of complex traits not so simple?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/s9cOXujsJCY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pigmentation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the pitfalls about talking about genetics, especially human genetics, is that the public wants a specific gene for a specific trait. Ergo, the &#8220;God gene&#8221; or the &#8220;language gene.&#8221; In some cases science has been able to pull a rabbit out of the hat, and offer up a gene for a trait. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestling with the future: iPad edition</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/8l-CFzM6iqo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was missing my daughter, so I decided to Skype with her on my phone. The phone has a camera which can record video, so I can talk to her, and if she gets bored I&#8217;ll show her something besides my face. I take this for granted, but it is interesting to reflect that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence that Afrikaners surely have non-European ancestry</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/-gJrfJbweuw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reviewing some literature for a blog-post-to-come and I noticed a figure in a paper I&#8217;ve long been aware of which indicates to me that Afrikaners surely have a non-trivial proportion of non-European ancestry. The paper is Population differences of two coding SNPs in pigmentation-related genes SLC24A5 and SLC45A2. It&#8217;s a forensics result. Basically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Discourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;discourse&#8221; is used a lot now. I&#8217;ve seen it even bleeding out of academic discourse, to general interest news. So I thought I&#8217;d look at the comparison between it an a few other terms in Google&#8217;s Ngram Viewer, which surveys mentions in books. The results were mildly interesting.]]></description>
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		<title>William D. Hamilton: science without artifice</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/yfmEhPQa8oc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Hamilton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Nature Oren Harman has a review up of Nature&#8217;s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton. It seems as if he gives it a B. Not enough science? Too much biography? For those who want more science and depth, Hamilton&#8217;s collected papers are where you should start: Narrow Roads of Gene Land: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Method well articulated makes for good science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A paper on the genetics of the Roma (&#8220;Gypsies&#8221;), Reconstructing Roma History from Genome-Wide Data, has finally come out in a journal. It&#8217;s been on arXiv for a while, so nothing too surprising. But, reading through the paper I have to note one rather clear aspect for me: there is a crispness and detail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown Bear! Polar Bear!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/MmDrXiT6cBo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polar Bear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bears are big deal today. I&#8217;ve talked about this before, so I won&#8217;t belabor the point in this post. Rather, I want to persuade you that there&#8217;s a really interesting paper out in PLOS Genetics right now, Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution. I know that seems like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those genius Chinese babies</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/cVcT_n21EOY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten several emails about the Vice interview of Geoffrey Miller on BGI&#8217;s Cognitive Genetics Project. It&#8217;s a sexy piece, and no surprise given Miller&#8217;s fascination with the future of China and science (something I share to a moderate extent). But for the love of God please watch this Steve Hsu video first before reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future will envelope us</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/MDoux9pUMIA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetic Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Anthes has a new book out, Frankenstein&#8217;s Cat. It looks quite interesting, but I&#8217;ll be honest and admit I doubt I&#8217;ll get to it, mostly because I am relatively sanguine about genetic modification. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a qualitative difference from what&#8217;s been going on for 10,000 years. To me all genuine concerns about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 3/17/2013</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/jae-pA2j0mU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts, for good or ill.
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		<title>Happy St. Patrick’s Day!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/l3_vp-f2NsI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
St. Patrick was just one man!
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		<title>The “death of RSS”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/tsuLuP50eIg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the imminent demise of Google Reader there&#8217;s a lot of talk about how this is a death blow for RSS. I don&#8217;t really get this. Does anyone remember the stuff about &#8220;the death of comments&#8221; in the late 2000s? E.g.: It&#8217;s sad and disappointing but the death of blog comments may be near. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those idiot savant Neandertals</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uoHwScFkQHg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neandertals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another Neandertal paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. But, because there is a delay between when the press is released to talk about it, and when it goes live, I haven&#8217;t gotten a look at the primary material. There&#8217;s a lot of juicy stuff in this piece at NBC Science though, Brain comparison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why more academics should blog (cuz you can!)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uB693pL0Ois/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been talking about the&#160;Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson piece on why academics should blog. In my own opinion it&#8217;s a little hyperbolic, not everyone is the same, whether it is in inter-individual differences in attributes, or the circumstantial point where one is in their career (e.g., if you are a graduate student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-D printing radicalized?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/WaS3qk1s2AU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3-D printing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the topics that occasionally crops up in personal conversations with friends is the issue of the rate of technological change. And yet the more and more I live life the more I feel that many of these discussions are predicated on the punctuated and precise emergence of technologies at a specific time and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the academic trenches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An email from a long time correspondent who recounts some graduate school interview experiences: Hi, Razib. Last week I attended a 2-day long interview for grad school, during which I spoke with about 15 faculty, all of whom were biological anthropologists, though of varying specialities. During these informal meetings, the topic of bio vs cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 3/10/2013</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/uytxegcTJj4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s going on?]]></description>
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		<title>Those who can not see God</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/those-who-can-not-see-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Dreher has an interesting post up at The American Conservative, The Lie Of Atheism (It&#8217;s Not What You Think). He relays a scourging of the New Atheists by Damon Linker. Rod has an interesting passage which I think highlights the difference between his psychology and that of my own: &#8230;I have never understood why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline hooks which confuse</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/qEgt8sLVXQ4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Y chromosomal lineage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Aziz Poonawalla* asked me to comment on this piece in The New Scientist, The father of all men is 340,000 years old. My primary thought: the title probably confuses people, while the article itself is quite serviceable.The first paragraph condenses the specific and precise scientific detail well: Albert Perry carried a secret in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High likelihood that my daughter does not have an autosomal dominant condition</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/jpheh3w1v8A/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[D.T.C. Personal Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After my previous post my wife started doing research online. The autosomal dominant condition that I have is almost certainly localized to one particular chromosome (there is a large effect QTL there that is strongly associated with my condition). Additionally, I inherit this condition from my mother. My daughter has her whole pedigree genotyped, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your health is your health</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/asSLde7Z_IE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quick personal story. I have a treatable autosomal dominant condition. For the non-geneticists, that means any of my children have a 50% chance of exhibiting the trait. Even aggressive treatment is not usually initiated until one is in elementary school. But we want to know now, just so we can know (we plan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, terms of use, etc.</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/Kt4UKiEH6ow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kalmbach Publishing has some terms of use which are now being enforced. Since they pay me, I am going to follow their terms of use obviously. The relevant part for comments here: Blog Comments Terms Violating any of the Terms below may result in your account being locked. In the event that your account is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “demographic arrowhead”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/p3I83r8kMAA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen anyone else coin this term, but when I see a chart like this, I think &#8220;the arrowhead aimed at civilization.&#8221; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Yglesias just can’t shut up</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/F0sCOHKSdYE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a blog post going around about the strange interaction of a freelancer with an editor at The Atlantic. The short of it is that the bargaining position of labor has deteriorated a great deal for some individuals over the past 10 years. Matt Yglesias put up a flip response, defending writing for free. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older than Adam</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeneExpressionBlog/~3/efkvVmMukbk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As recently as 10 years ago one could plausibly talk about mtDNA Eve and Y chromosomal Adam. The &#8220;Human Story&#8221; might then be stylized into a rapid expansion from a small core East African population which flourished ~100,000 years ago, and engaged in a jailbreak sweep out of Africa and across the rest of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An anthropologist explains the gene!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Anthropology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Ethnography.com a late response to my post Against the cultural anthropologists from someone named Michael Scroggins. He accuses me of being &#8220;The hyperbolic leader in this round of hippie bashing.&#8221; That&#8217;s a defensible proposition, but speaking of hyperbole, he says: The paradigm that informs Chagnon, Diamond and their chorus of supporters in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’ll bet you ending the one child policy won’t matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One child policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Twitter Chris Mims expresses the entirely reasonable proposition that China&#8217;s low fertility is a prescription for long term socioeconomic disaster (they&#8217;re already beyond &#8220;peak worker&#8221;), with a link to an article in Quartz, China&#8217;s ratio of boys to girls is still dangerously high&#8212;and it&#8217;s the Chinese government&#8217;s fault. First, I&#8217;ve noted before that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never speak “ill” of Fisher!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the post below I alluded to the views of R. A. Fisher. This was a moderately dangerous move on my part because many of Fisher&#8217;s views have been transmitted only through later researchers, who may have lacked a clear understanding of what Fisher himself was trying to say. Heap on top of that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gene (machine) and we</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genome Sequencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sequencing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at IEEE Spectrum Eliza Strickland has a long piece, The Gene Machine and Me, which reports on her experience with exome sequencing (this refers to the ~1 percent of the genome, or 30 billion base pairs, which is coding). Being IEEE Spectrum there is much focus on genomic technology, but I suspect this will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the architecture of evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[epistasis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old argument going back to the origins of theoretical population genetics has to do with the nature of the genetic effects which control traits and are subject to change in allele frequency due to adaptation. Often these are bracketed as part of the controversies between R. A. Fisher and Sewall Wright (see Sewall Wright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officially old</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nostalgia for the music of incipient adolescence. 

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		<title>When science becomes policy it becomes politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new book Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic&#8217;s Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows, by Zac Unger, has made some waves because it suggests that there has been some alarmism as to the extinction likelihood of this charismatic megafauna within the next 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The genetic palimpsest of the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Select]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture in PLoS Genetics last week, one of my thoughts was &#8220;where is the tree&#8221;? Thankfully all the data is online, so I simply ran TreeMix on it. After a number of runs I know understand perhaps why there is no figure emphasizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence in inference in phylogenetic data sets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phylogenetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I put up a new data set into my repository. As is my usual practice now the populations can be found in the .fam file. But I&#8217;ve added more into this. I have to rewrite my ADMIXTURE tutorial soon, so I thought I would bring up an important issue when interpreting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open thread, 3/3/2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speak.
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		<title>Why not release data for phylogenetic papers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanese genetics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I noted that a paper on speculative inferences as to the phylogenetic origins of Australian Aborigines was hampered in its force of conclusions by the fact that the authors didn&#8217;t release the data to the public (more accurately, peers). There are likely political reasons for this in regards to Australian Aborigine data sets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is wrong with some ancestry testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal genomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an example of the type of question I receive all the time: Here is some genetic analysis of Somalis from yours truly. I don&#8217;t necessarily blame the public here, as the marketing of Y and mtDNA lineages has really gotten out of control recently. The problem is that the fine print that Y [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The full shape of human history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macrohistory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With great ambition comes the opportunity for stupendous failure. If one does not strive, one can not fail in a bold manner. And Ian Morris is bold indeed. I read his previous book, Why the West Rules&#8211;for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, and found in enjoyable. And yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The unstylized science of human culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I encountered Joe Henrich&#8217;s work about 10 years ago. As a fellow traveler of&#160;Robert Boyd, and admired by Dan Sperber, none of this is coincidental. These are the sorts of cultural anthropologists who I can understand in my bones. Benearth the jargon there is no attempt at signalling artifice. For a taste of Henrich&#8217;s research, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science is hard, but it is possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthroplogy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=20232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Again, Chagnon, Sahlins, and science: When we allow personal ideological bias rule to our scholarly work, we limit the value of our research to answer real questions and to contribute to broader social and scientific debates. If you have an ideological axe to grind, either leave scholarship and go into politics, or else find ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We disagree because we disagree</title>
		<link>http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/we-disagree-because-we-disagree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Dreher has some interests thoughts and link roundups to the idea of Natural Law, by way of explaining how non-religious people need Natural Law to construct a rational foundation for ethics. I think Hume is right on this: Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The abuse of ancestry testing is bad for personal genomics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have very little with which I can disagree with in this Mark Thomas piece, To claim someone has &#8216;Viking ancestors&#8217; is no better than astrology. His conclusion: Exaggerated claims from the consumer ancestry industry can also undermine the results of serious research about human genetic history, which is cautiously and slowly building up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the good life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Razib Khan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have a daughter I do reflect a bit more on what the purpose of my life is, because at some point I want to talk to her about the purpose of her life. There is a little bit of irony in this insofar as now she is a primary purpose of my [...]]]></description>
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