Mike, This is a situation where the headline is again possibly misleading. I have not had a chance to listen to that particular segment, but I did listen to...
... wrote: [...] ... I found this: BioEssays 29:311-313, 2007. What a difference copy number variation makes Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki Abstract DNA copy number...
Dan: I don't necessarily think you have some "sinister" motive in mentioning the "p.c. phrase". But in my no doubt limited experience, this is exactly what...
Mike: There's no doubt that there are a lot of clinal variations in various human populations. And there's no doubt that they often "intersect" in different...
Elena:Again, as long as the discussions are kept on a reasonably scientific basis, you're allowed to bring these subject. Human variations(including "racial"...
   I'm not sure what anyone means by race, except in a forensic use, to identify unknown remains. However, gene duplication is, I gather, a fairly widely...
This is the definition of "race" that I give in my Human Variation class. There are real genetic clusters out there, so claiming these are simply "social...
... They are dynamically changing genetic clusters. The definition you give, when applied to not just present but the dynamically changing past of West Africa,...
... Tutsi, Hutu, Pondo, Zulu (a 18th century construct in its present form), Xhosa...and that's before we get to "black" vs "white" crap. There are too many...
I can't get to the blog either, but there have been other stories about the "cooked cells", and I think they're specifically suggesting that it was primarily...
Exactly right, so do my students which is why I give it. Spare me on Africa, however, as the genetic diversity there is enormous, and indeed, there are smaller...
Dave Timpe saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Dig unearths Stone Age sculptures ** An excavation in Russia has unearthed...
The Beeb no longer has a text box for your comments when you email an article, or I would have added that the "mysterious" cone-shaped object looks like it...
Okay, understood - and sounds reasonable, where the definition includes dynamic. In the popular mind, I think race is considered fixed, in spite of all...
  I should have added, "means without a definition." I think popularly, the groups you mentioned would referred to by journalists as tribes or tribal...
To all: I am not enough of a student of biology to be capable of deciding whether there is, or is not, a biological basis for race. But I have been a student...
All well said Bob. The word "race" has a complex history. I've got an excellent government report on the social and ecological degradation of the West...
... ...and this differs from what I said how exactly...? "...but the dynamically changing past of West Africa, would yield "races" within "races" to the extent...
... It's because Ralph is applying a definition of "race" which is completely and utterly different to that used by the general populace, and by scientists a...
The December issue of National Geographic Magazine has an article about Alfred Wallace about his story behind the evolution story. The article is called "The...
But that points to the main Hawks blog without the :84. The version specifying port 84 doesn't make it through to uwc.edu computers either (and they're within...
Paul: I'd have to check on that, but I think it does. Anne G Can't access it as usual; but doesn't the Neanderthal timeframe extend well back into the previous...
Carel and all: Well, let's go back a little further. It seems to me humans have been evolving toward a "generalistic" state ever since the line that led to...
From a book review I wrote a couple of years ago: "Race. The American Anthropological Association currently has an official campaign to promote its ...
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