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In my books list below I tried to not focus too much on evolutionary genetics and genomics. But I still feel that I was a bit narrow. Over the years my interest in science has become rather narrow because of professional focus, but when I was younger I used to read quite a bit of popular physics, such as John Gribbin’s In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat. This sort of narrowing of focus is probably inevitable, but still pretty worrying for me. Probably the last popular physics book which I read front to back was Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics, nearly 8 years ago.
In other news, I’m going to try and take a break from the internet for a few days around the New Year. More precisely, I’m going to try and take a vacation with my growing family somewhere sunny and hopefully warm. We’ll see how that works out. But please don’t be concerned if I don’t post on Twitter or have a blog update for a few days +/- January 1st of 2015.
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Razib, did you agree with the pick of Marcus Mariota for the Heisman? Just kidding. In seriousness though, do you think he will do well in the NFL?
A few days? what the hell am i going to do for a few days?? Being genetically privileged, it is your *duty* to entertain the unwashed masses. Don’t allow your voice to be silenced, Razib.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-thatamanil/in-the-face-of-systemic-r_b_6319062.html
Priorities should be: 1) link finding 2) blogging 3)linking finding….25) work/family
Is there any evidence for Starostin’s or Greenburg’s grand language theories (Nostratic, Eurasiatic, Dene-Caucasian, etc) from the genetics side of things? More importantly, are there any books that do prehistory from both genetic and linguistic evidence that are pretty good?
perhaps, though not assured
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Heisman_Trophy_winners#List_of_Heisman_winners
probably not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oregon_Ducks_starting_quarterbacks
More importantly, are there any books that do prehistory from both genetic and linguistic evidence that are pretty good?
hm. linguistics + genetics? not right now, because genetics is moving so fast. wait a few years.
I was thinking about the molecular clock over the weekend, and realized that I have some questions about its details. These are, I imagine, pretty basic questions (but are not addressed in the Wikipedia article) so my inclination is to keep my “mouth shut and appear stupid [rather] than to open it and remove all doubt.” Instead, I’ll ask for a recommendation for something to read that discusses factors that increase or decrease stability in its rate, perhaps an article, perhaps a book — text or trade — with a good chapter on that.
Thanks
start here:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Revising%20the%20human%20mutation%20rate:%20implications%20for%20understanding%20human%20evolution.pdf
I’d like to ask.
Suppose in ancient but historical times there has been some more and fairly widespread admixture into h. sapiens populations from relict hominids who, like Denisovans, have not figured in the archaeological records much and no type specimens exist.
Would this be easily detected in comparisons of various ethnics and their DNA?
AncestryDNA reconstructs partial genome of person living 200 years ago
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-ancestrydna-reconstructs-partial-genome-person.html