A nation of immigrants: how a new genetic map tells a story of Britons’ survival Geneticists and historians astonished to find patterns in DNA of today’s Britons that reflect historical events going back centuries, and in some cases millennia[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In the beginning there were Adam, Eve, Ngbo, Perin, Sillia, Ghe, Huang, Uman, Preter, Thym, Kal El, Thoru, Brent, Miter, Jnaet, Janus. Kasi, Chooma, Rven,Avrum, Moseh, Sara, kGhila, Juano, Wall, Sun, Bulgo, Kim, Huang, PBetu, ………………………………………………,
How big was the human population bottleneck? Another staple of theology refuted. September 18, 2011 – 7:13 am A paper in Nature by Heng Li and Richard Durbin contains estimates of the “effective population size” of our ancestors at different points in evolutionary time. (Effective population [...]
January 25th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: of God and cloning Neanderthals
If George wants to clone a Neanderthal, why not clone Sasquatch? George Church, interview by Spiegel SPIEGEL: Mr. Church, do you believe in God? Church: I would be blind, if I didn’t see that faith in an overall plan resulted in where we are today. Faith is a very powerful[...]
January 22nd, 2015 - 1:02 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: So .. what did Adam and Eve Look Like?
Insights from DNA studies of Khoe-San … a discussion on this South African blog talks about the genetic complexity of the Ksan, the “hottentots” who were almost extinguished by the Dutch settlers of South Africa. Today we know from modern genetics that that the Khoe-San are the m[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 2:48 pm § in Science
Maybe not God, but A One World Genome?
Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes▿† Huiquan Liu1,2, Yanping Fu2, Daohong Jiang1,2,*, Guoqing Li1,2, Jiatao Xie2, Jiasen Cheng2, Youliang Peng3, Said A. Ghabrial4 and Xianhong Yi2 + Author Affiliations 1State Key Laboratory of Agric[...]
Blasphemy laws are not new, but our religion is the one truth.
A Home School Teacher Explains Evolution Video of a visit to the Fields Museum by a devout Christian home schooler. Since the fundamentalist insist that evolution is a religion, I propose that we make science denial against the law.[...]
November 16th, 2014 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The others
Ancient Humans Bred with Completely Unknown Species A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another spe[...]
November 14th, 2014 - 1:30 pm § in Misc.
We Buy a Wolf
As we are about to welcome a dog with 80% wolf genes as our new pet, I read this on Facebook. 4 years ago I was sitting in my arm chair reading in the front room by the plate glass picture window. I looked up an there they were just feet away .. It was […][...]
September 29th, 2014 - 5:19 pm § in Jews
You, you … caveman!
Fifth of Neanderthals’ genetic code lives on in modern humans outside of Africa Benjamin Vernot and Joshua Akey at the University of Washington reported in Science that they sequenced the genomes of more than 600 people from Europe and eastern Asia. They found a lasting legacy of sexual encou[...]
September 20th, 2014 - 3:06 am § in Uncategorized
Why the NFL has a problem
Society bloomed with gentler personalities and more feminine faces Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art and advanced tools became widespread. A new study appearing Aug. 1 in the journal Current Anthropology finds [...]