According to this press release, Oded Lipschits from the department of Archaeology in Tel Aviv University has found evidence that Assyrians were establishing ‘local administrative centers,’ branch offices if you may, that kept tabs on their Judaen vassals. This ain’t really surprising finding by itself, from the very start of the Assyrian empire, they [...]
April 2, 2008
Investigating a decrease of risk alcoholism ADH allele in East Asian populations
Razib shares with us an overview of a new PLoS One paper which investigated the selection of an allele of alcohol dehydrogenase found in high frequency in some East Asian peoples. I gotta hand it to him for the snarky title of his post. Alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme that functions to break down alcohols [...]
