This is not new. For a very similar idea, see: http://www.accelerating.org/articles/answeringfermiparadox.html

I saw this McCain daughter shot a few days ago and also thinking that she ''was hot'' I checked out other photos on Google's ''images'' 
 
Sadly, in a frontal angle she strongly resembles her father. This is unfortunate as her mother is - or at least was - very attractive.

My brothers are identical twins. One is a leftie and the other right handed. My sister and I are lefties - as was our father (who was forced at gunpoint to convert to rightism as a child). 
 
I've read before that lefties have a slightly shorter life span - but thought it mainly due to the frustrations of trying to make do in a right handed world.  
 
BTW, I really pretty much divide different tasks to different hands. I use right handed scissors. I doubt I could work a mouse left handed. I shoot a hand gun right handed (but a rifle left handed).

A simple google gives you the old claim that 25% of the earlier astronauts were left-handed. Were they somehow damaged? I don't want to sound gauche, but how about that woman astronaut who went bonkers a week or back - is she a sex-addicted leftie? 
 
And now pedophiles? It all seems so sinister.

So does anyone have a link to the Cavalli-Sforza map in PDF like the one posted? 
 
Look up the book on Amazon. The map's on the cover and easy to view.

There seems to be quite a divergence between W. and E .Africa. Almost all of the black slaves imported into the New World came from W. Africa. (Whoopi Goldberg was claimed by Gabon just today).  
 
Obama comes from E. Africa.

I'm surprised to see that Anglo-Saxon blood is in the minority - even in Anglia! There is a school of thought that claims when the Saxons invaded Southest England, the native Celts (at least the males) were killed off or driven to the western regions. These results seem to support an assimulation hypothesis - but with both sides eventually adopting the Anglo-Saxon-Jute language*. 
 
*It seems Old English (and modern English) is a very ''adoptable'' (sic) language - with it's simple sentence and verb construction. It is, after all, a blend of Old Norse and Old Saxon - so its earliest purpose was to allow ease of communtion between the Norse and German invaders.

For the sake of the animals who will die unnecessarily in these experiments 
 
I'm trying to process this remark: From catching a sheep STD? A heart attack from having too much sex? Gored by a jealous husband-ram?

So after hibernation a squirrel is less able to locate his nuts? 
 
Was the research team brave enough to test bear brains for similar deterioration? 
 
Interesting: Elephants never hibernate and they never forget.  
 
When humans sleep, do they also suffer brain deterioration like the squirrels ? obviously in much a smaller amount? Is that why we say that a good night's sleep will make you feel like a new man?

Depressed people have the most accurate assessment of themselves, other people and just about everything. 
 
Which is depressing. 
 
I think blind optimism has been bred into us over the eons - as a survival mechanism - so that, in the face of extremely wretched conditions we still sing to ourselves, ''Tomorrow, the sun will come out again tomrrow ..., and slog on.  
 
The depressed accurately assess a wretched situation and give up the ghost.

Who's is going to admit that he or she is stupid? Maybe in a fill-in-the-form survey - but to another person?  
 
Also no matter how smart or not-so-smart, each of has their own ''niche'' (and blind spots). You might be an illiterate criminal who excells at one thing - hot wiring cars. Do you think you're stupid? Hell no, you've got a trade and you can impress your criminal friends.  
 
Maybe if you get caught you'll question you career choice.

I've long wondered whether people who have ''perfect pitch'' - that is, they can identify the ''letter'' of a musical note just by listening, somehow ''see'' the note as we can see a color. Or maybe they taste the note.

Sometimes an eye is just an eye.

Kate Beckensales' father's maternal grandfather was Burmese

Since women still tend to be the primary caregivers, a woman's income is a proxy for the income she foregoes (opportunity cost) by having lots of kids. So I see no surprise there. The male can support more children with higher income. The opportunity cost effects would tend to be low as the male does not usually stay at home with the kids. 
 
She tests for frequency of sex as some sort of precursor to the number of kids - which seems odd in today's birth-controlled society.  
 
The article is pretty short. No race or cultural variables that I can see.

Hilary, not Hilda.

very funny Razib: I see where this came from. An article in the NYT about women letting their eyebrows go au natural 
 
In addition to Ms. Werbowy, a clique of naturally Dracula-browed Eastern European fashion models ?that means you, Natalia, Vlada, Eugenia, Sasha and Snejana ? is inspiring a return to the bold brow. But the hairiest of them all is Hilary Rhoda, a fresh-faced American model possessed of eyebrows as furry as tufted caterpillars, whose eerie resemblance to Ms. Shields recently landed her on the covers of Italian and French Vogue. 
 
I suppose if Daryl Hannah can play a Cro-Magnon, Hilda can play a Neanderthal. (her brow is still way too high).

As early Christianity moved west into Greece and Rome, did it run into and react against the homosexual behavior that was rampant in those classical cultures? 
 
I can only cite The Oxford History of the Classical World as a rebuttal to this notion. The volume lays out the case that the Romans were if anything ''homophobic'' and the Greeks (during the period of Greek dominance - not the later, decadent years under Roman rule) only allowed man-boy relations, where the boy was placed in a somewhat humiliating social role. Of course the dinner talk in Socrates Dialogues seems to imply that there was a lot of man-man sex. 
 
Julius Caesar was accused of homosexual behavior - but this was probably a slander by his political enemies. 
 
Of course as both classical cultures aged, who knows what became acceptable? (Saint) Paul seemed to see enough of homosexual behavior to condemn the practice in his Epistles. However, he was observing decadent Greek culture.

Ignoring the anomolous data for Dec and Jan in one year, the story seems to be why are births bunched up in July? 
 
Oktoberfest.

be kind, just remember my specialty is mathematics and economics, not dna. 
 
I can't say I strongly believe in dna ''drift''. In the physical world, what we might dismiss as drift is usually caused by something - a current, perhaps a light breeze.  
 
Genetically, in a large population, any drift caused by some random walk or Brownian effect would regress towards the mean as predicted by the law of large numbers. I suppose that means drift mostly applies to very small populations.  
 
However, I think what we might call drift is really some sort of selection, the basis of which we are not yet aware. It could be sexual or based on a slight change in the available food supply, etc. 
 
BTW, one thing I believe in strongly is entropy as applied to complex organisms (like humans). Without natural selection culling the herd, so to speak, generations would seem to have to get successively less fit.