Razib Khan
What is ‘genetic nurture’ and how does it impact educational achievement?
The phrase “Look down your nose” comes from a time when aristocrats were taller than commoners due to their superior ...
Debating the prickly notion of identity: It’s different depending on your ideology
In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations of ...
Why conservatives should embrace evolution ‘as a jewel’ of modern Western civilization
It is a crowning achievement of Western civilization and a rejoinder to the modern myths of the Left ...
Finding ‘surprising and novel’ applications for consumer genomics
With more than 10 million genotyped customers, the consumer genomics industry is maturing and becoming a mainstream phenomenon. At last, ...
China’s cultural revolution: Why widespread personal gene sequencing may be inevitable
[Editor's note: Razib Khan is a PhD candidate in genetics at the University of California-Davis.] If you’ve been hiding under a ...
Origins of Ashkenazi Jewry clearer once more genetic information examined
["]The Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population is important in medical genetics due to its high rate of Mendelian disorders and other ...
End sex segregation in sport competitions? That denies genetic facts
From New York Times: What if, in some dystopian swim universe, [ace swimmer Katie] Ledecky was told that...she would have ...
Biologists divided over what is a ‘species’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many types of biologists ...
How will rise of genetic engineering transform our future?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If the story of ...
Genophobia, an intution like Creationism, can be overcome by science
Over at Slate Will Saletan has a very long piece Unhealthy Fixation: The war against genetically modified organisms is full ...
How did modern humans dominate Europe?
First Peoples: Europe came and went. I watched it. In case you didn’t see it there was a big reveal: archaeologists in ...
Dolezal delusion: Scientists challenge claim there’s no biological basis to racial differences
The saga of Rachel Dolezal, who recently resigned as president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP after it ...
Who did modern Asian and European populations evolve from?
Modern Europeans can be thought of as compounds. The first element are a set of populations which descend from, or ...
Can genetics shed light on history?
When it comes to questions of demographic change genetic insights are key, and present data in a way that allows ...
Are humans genetically unique?
A new paper in Science reports high (20-40 percent) derived frequencies for an allele which seems correlated with higher rates of ...
Genghis Khan’s Legacy: Male Y chromosome tells tale of genetic and cultural evolution
I do like to suggest that the genetic and archaeological record support the conjecture of Conan the Barbarian in terms ...
Does it make sense to sequence the genome of all new born babies?
This is coming, Genome Sequencing in Babies to Begin as Part of Study, with high risk cases first: "Stephen F ...
Environmentalists fumble concerns over ‘racial mixing’ and biodiversity
One of the often overlooked historical oddities in the development of the environmental movement in the United States was its ...
In India, a form of eugenics that people might embrace
The term “eugenics” has very negative connotations today. Nevertheless, in some ways society is moving in a direction which results ...
Did the Khoisans’ ancestors once rule the earth?
It is common for strong results from population genetics to be confused when it is translated for public consumption. The ...
How should parents deal with preimplantation genetic information?
In the following post at Patheos the author reflects on the fact that her teenage daughter inherited her genetic condition, a predisposition ...
Why some ancestry might not show up in your DNA
Most Americans with colonial stock in their family could probably trace at least one genealogical line back to a Native ...
Speciation is a human construct, sometimes genetics often don’t overlap
Scientific taxonomy is only a rough and approximate mapping of the reality of natural history and evolutionary genetics, which it ...
On earwax, body odor and culture: A genetic explanation
When I was in college a Korean American friend confided to me that his roommate had an issue. He had ...
Estimates that 10% of fathers are duped about paternity is wrong; Probably more like 1 to 3%
As I have stated before one of the strangest things to me is the ‘urban myth’ among many biologists that ...
Population size may be clue to why Neanderthals suffered and Neo-African humans survived
A new paper in PNAS, Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals, reiterates what seems to ...
Taboo: The left’s problem with genetics of race and sex and human differences
Hard-wired differences among groups is one of the most controversial subjects in society, whether we are discussing race or sex ...
Measuring genetic distance is harder than you’d think
You've probably heard or read that most genetic variation is within, not between races. This assertion has led, in my ...
