Archive for January, 2010
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society
Published January 19, 2010 Academia , American , History , Interesting , Knowledge , Society , Western Civilization Leave a CommentTags: Consequential Knowledge, Experience, Intellectuals
Genetic Map of Europe
Published January 14, 2010 Europe , History , Interesting , Science , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm 1 CommentTags: Biology, Genes, Genetic Map, Populations
This site was mentioned in the comments section of the post “The Blue Eye Map of Europe” by Alex Divcincenzo.
From the nytimes.com article:
The map shows, at right, the location in Europe where each of the sampled populations live and, at left, the genetic relationship between these 23 populations. The map was constructed by Dr. Kayser, Dr. Oscar Lao and others, and appears in an article in Current Biology published online on August 7.
The genetic map of Europe bears a clear structural similarity to the geographic map. The major genetic differences are between populations of the north and south (the vertical axis of the map shows north-south differences, the horizontal axis those of east-west). The area assigned to each population reflects the amount of genetic variation in it.
Read the article here.
