New study looks at ancestral human migration into Asia: Researchers mapping a massive array of genomes across Asia say they have found evidence that humans covered the continent in a single migratory wave, and share a common ancestry. The findings were released by the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Pan-Asian SNP Consortium which looks at single-nucleotide… Continue reading
More bad news for authors and publishers. Kirkus Reviews is closing. Taking 5,000 book reviews per year with it.
With apologies for the language, this cracked me up.
Razib Kahn and David Sloan Wilson discuss multi-level selection theory.
Ross Douthat pretty much nails it: But you can see how it could all go bad — how a culture so intense clerical, so politically high-handed, and so embarrassed (beyond the requirements of Christian doctrine) by human sexuality could magnify the horror of priestly pedophilia, and expand the pool of victims, by producing bishops inclined… Continue reading