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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Purity is not a genetic reality
Nature has a news story out which highlights the truly frightening dark-side of human genetics research: Hungary’s Medical Research Council (ETT), which advises the government on health policy, has asked public prosecutors to investigate a genetic-diagnostic company that certified that … Continue reading
Philip Tobias: 1925-2012
I am late on this story, but Philip Tobias, South African anatomist and paleoanthropologist, a real giant in the field (despite being a very diminutive person in actuality), died last Thursday at the age of 86. The NY Times published … Continue reading
The upside of fieldwork…
I am outside eating batrajani (deliciously sautéed eggplant with a walnut paste), which can only mean I am back in Tbilisi. A delicious salad of tomatoes (pomodori) and cucumbers (kvitri) cannot be too far behind…
Weekend Wag the Dog: 6/8/12
Once again this is an on-location edition of Weekend Wag the Dog, so no dogs. Instead we have the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first President of Turkey, not far from my hotel in Ankara.
More on the biological treatment of race
Following up on my partial defense of teaching race in the context of human biological variation, Anne Fausto-Sterling has a review of three recent books on the subject for the Boston Review. All three of the books reviewed seem interesting, … Continue reading
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More on evolutionary approaches to diet
New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has gotten a lot of attention with his recent announcement to institute a partial ban on large-size soda options in the city. The initiative, meant in some ways to address the growing problems of … Continue reading
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Problems with “the” paleo-diet
NPR recently picked up a story on “the paleo diet” moving more mainstream. The basic idea behind the paleo diet is that evolution has shaped our metabolic processes to fit a certain kind of diet, and by and large, we … Continue reading
In defense of the treatment of race, in part, on biological/scientific grounds
One of the first issues I want to unpack from my just completed seminar on race is the treatment of race, in part, as a topic of biological and scientific relevance. The history of scientific racism is the history of … Continue reading
A two-day reading list on race
Our two-day race marathon seminar is over, and what a two-day marathon it was. The eleven of us who took part managed to have a more or less constant 7+ hours of discussion on an ever-evolving though connected series of … Continue reading