Reviews
I've called this section of the weblog the "reviews" section, because I review things -- single papers, multiple papers, TV shows, books.
When a review gets long enough, or is popular enough, I often spin it into one of the other sections of the site, such as the "fossils" or my FAQ. So this area is a bit of a mixed bag: the reviews are my reactions and thoughts about things, sometimes in the course of development of other work and sometimes not.
The section is divided into categories where I put things. Some are highly populated (like "genomics"), with multiple subcategories and dozens of posts. Others are less so, but hold diverse content.
Here are the categories:
And following are short excerpts of the posts in each category:
/reviews/epigenetics/fetal_influences
Demography through historic records in Finland
David Biello writes a nice profile of demographic researcher Virpi Lummaa: The 33-year-old Finnish biologist, aided by genealogists, has pored through centuries-old tomes (and microfiche) for birth, marriage and death records, which ended up providing glimpses of evolution at work in humanity's recent ancestors...Prenatal influences on the lives of twins: fertility
Reading some of the recent books on post-Columbian disease exchange, I have been impressed by the contribution of basic historical demographic research to understanding biological processes...
John Hawks Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin—Madison
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