October 28, 2004

28th October, 1940

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The 1940 Epic (Hellenic Army)
October 27, 2004

Homo floresiensis

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Peter Brown and colleagues announced today the discovery of a new species of small-statured humans, Homo floresiensis . T hese humans were...

White-Black unions in England and the US

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Ethnic and Racial Studies 1 September 2002, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 728-754(27) Unions between blacks and whites: England and the US compared...

Hellenism and Jewish nationalism

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Ethnic and Racial Studies 1 September 2002, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 755-777(23) Hellenism and Jewish nationalism: ambivalence and its ancien...
October 26, 2004

The fall and rise of Dr. Pangloss

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Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan's paper [1] is an interesting retrospective of a much cited 1979 paper by Gould and Lewontin [2] w...

5,500-year old tombs discovered in Olympia

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Knoll disgorges 5,500-yr secret Archaeologists working in the Peloponnesian city that organized the ancient Olympic Games have un...
October 25, 2004

Assimilation of ethnic minorities in Germany

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Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis August 2004, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 159-183(25) Immigrant Cultures, State Policies and Social Capit...

Deleting junk DNA in mice

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Researchers deleted large portions of junk DNA from the mouse genome and created mice with the altered genome. No adverse effects were detec...

Maltreatment deaths in rich nations

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An interesting article on cross-national occurrence of family violence in Europe. Please read the full article for more information on indiv...
October 23, 2004

Craniofacial variation of northeast Africans

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A new article by S.O.Y. Keita examines craniofacial variation in northeast African populations. Two points need to be made: first, the great...
October 22, 2004

Inference of between-individual differences from between-group differences

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I have often witnessed a particular logical error, namely the inference of between-individual differences based on knowledge about between-g...

Bostrom vs. Fukuyama (on Transhumanism)

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Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea by Francis Fukuyama Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea? by Nick Bostr...
October 21, 2004

Oldest clay fireplaces made by humans in the Peloponnese

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Kiln's 'ancestor' found in Greece The structures bridge the gap between kilns and stone hearths Archaeologists hav...

Y chromosome haplogroups of elite Ethiopian endurance runners

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A new study investigates the occurrence of Y-chromosomal haplogroups in elite Ethiopian endurance runners versus a control sample. The autho...
October 20, 2004

Racial differences in salt-sensitivity (and other thoughts)

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One of the main arguments against the existence or importance of races is the observation that on average , 15% of genetic variation is betw...
October 18, 2004

Rise of diseases in modern societies is not (usually) due to genetic or environmental factors

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In modern industrialized societies degenerative diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's etc. have a much higher prevalence today ...