Archive for March 28th, 2010

Natural selection and recombination

March 28, 2010, filed under Uncategorized; 8 Comments.

Razib has a nice discussion of an interesting observation just published in PLoS Genetics– that there is a negative correlation between recombination rate in the human genome and population differentiation. This observation, along with the complementary observations of correlations between nucleotide diversity and recombination and between nucleotide diversity and density of functional elements, form part [...]

America the Catholic, t + 40 years

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Bryan Caplan points to a quote from Will Durant’s The Lessons of History: In the United States the lower birth rate of the Anglo-Saxons has lessened their economic and political power; and the higher birth rate of Roman Catholic families suggest that by the year 2000 the Roman Catholic Church will be the dominant force [...]