Bringing together climate and ancient DNA to look at a micro-instance of extinction
Ed Yong describes the results of a cool new study of mammoth extinction on Saint Paul Island, in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia: “The Lonely, Th...
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Link: Neandertal genetics and Jared Leto
Time magazine reveals that Neandertal genetics can confer a risk of method acting:
Humans are still evolving, and soon we'll know a lot more about it
Lots of readers have asked me to react to this Telegraph article: “Sir David Attenborough: Humans have stopped evolving”:
Sit down and shut up
Carole McGranahan describes a memorable case where academics shut down public discussion of their work: “Dialogue with the Public: Adam Yauch and Academic Sn...
Darwin's Y
The Telegraph has done a puff piece about the Genographic testing of Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson.
Violet eyes
Oh, I suppose I should go ahead and link to that Elizabeth Taylor mutation article:
Winter's Bone
Before anyone asks: Yes, I’m aware of the Academy’s unfortunate misspelling.
Neandertal anti-defamation files, 8
OK, at ScienceOnline2011 I did a little bit of talking about Neandertals represented in art. So this entry in the NAD files truly pains me.
Culturomics
From the Guardian: “Google creates a tool to probe ‘genome’ of English words for cultural trends”.
Ozzy Osbourne, archaic human
Via a reader: The Daily Mail really aims for the lowest common denominator of genetics: “We’ve all suspected, now it’s official: Ozzy Osbourne IS a Neanderth...
Starr
Ringo Starr turns 70 years old today. Many are reminiscing about some music group he was apparently part of. As for myself, I will forever treasure his geniu...
GET smart
Carl Zimmer describes his experience as a master of ceremonies (with Robert Krulwich) at the Genomes, Envrionments, Traits conference (“A day among the genom...
This weeks' genomes
Actress Glenn Close joins the ranks of the genomed; Daniel MacArthur discusses the celebrity genomics trend.
Shamone
Funny, this didn’t stand out to me at the Field when we were there last…