Earlier this year, I wrote a massive summary on the genetics of pigmentation for one of my graduate courses. I wasn’t particularly keen on the topic before but it has since grown on me and I’m now a big fan. So to read from Yann, Dienekes, and Razib that one of the key pigmentation genes, [...]
October 9, 2008
A Response to World as Laboratory by Rebecca Lemov
In World as Laboratory, Rebecca Lemov, an anthropologist, writes for a larger audience.
“I think it’s too bad that a lot of scholarly work never gets read, usually because it’s just plain difficult to read,” she says in an interview with Nicole Merritt of MyShelf.com. “Being difficult is sometimes necessary, but sometimes there’s deliberate obfuscation going [...]
