Beyond bones & stones
Razib has responded to my disagreement with his statement that any given hunter-gatherer infant is far more likely to reach reproductive age than any given offspring of peasants. And he's confident with his standing. I've done some reviewing of the literature and I still think that the probability that a child of an agriculturalist will... Continue Reading →
Dienekes shared the abstract to a paper that seems to completely contradict an earlier study. It is pretty evident from the title of newer study, "Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives," what the authors tested. And they confirm that there is a linkage between the propensity... Continue Reading →
This morning Dienekes pointed out a new paper in the open access journal PLoS Genetics on polygyny and its impact on human genetic variation. Razib followed suite, providing a more in depth review of the study. I recommend you check out both. In this post, I'm also gonna have a stab at reviewing the paper... Continue Reading →
Peter Giese of the Institue of Psychiatry at King's College London, University of London has been studying the differences between male and female memory. According to this Telegraph news piece, he's identified two sex based genes in males but not females which function in cognitive and memory functions. "The researchers used mice to study the... Continue Reading →
I wanna know your thoughts on this issue. The issue is about cognitive differences between the sexes, which is always a hot anthropological issue. Recently, Sheril Kirshenbaum from The Intersection posted some examples of NSF's Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 report. The results of the report indicate that females are much less adept in answering... Continue Reading →
