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Tag Archives: health
Reason #5 to enroll in 207x
Continuing my series on the top 10 reasons to enroll in Anthropology 207x (Introduction to Human Evolution), which officially begins on May 6th…. Previous entries: #10 Origin stories are captivating. Scientific origin stories can be unifying. #9 It’s open and … Continue reading
More problems with the paleodiet
In my Anthropology of Food class we have spent the past two weeks talking about the technological, dietary, cultural and population health transitions from the late Paleolithic, through the origin of agriculture, to present-day industrial-scale food production, with much of … Continue reading
Fear of genomics
NPR (at least my local NPR affiliates) has been running a series on low-cost genomic sequencing and its potentials–good and bad–for several days now. The series has focused on a variety of issues, but has regularly come back to the … Continue reading
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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Quote of the Day: race, genomics and research
While most researchers do not claim to know the exact root of health disparities, all believe genomics will increasingly play a central role where other fields have failed. Though researchers might want to start with strict genomic populations, with minority … Continue reading
Your genome and you
More on personal genomics, as Razib Khan uses himself as an example of personal decision-making based on genomic data: It turns out that one locus determines most of the effect of this trait, and that locus has been genotyped in … Continue reading