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With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

I recently re-read Jurassic Park for the first time in decades. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton's books, and the movies based on them. I read every book of his that I could find. After a while, I drifted away, looking for variety

Holy Roman America

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The Long View 2008-01-30: ESB Anomaly; New Candidates; A.D. 2424; Mole Rats; Convergent Evolution

John J. Reilly had something of a horrified fascination with naked mole rats. He also brings up here his review of Simon Conway Morris’ Life’s Solution, which I still find an interesting idea, but one that is probably dismissed more than it should be just because it is looking

The Long View 2007-12-11: Metropolis Reloaded; Jones's Skull; Steyn's Glory; The Conservative Mutant

The original Metropolis is one of those movies I haven’t quite got around to watching. However, I do enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s version [Amazon affiliate link] immensely. I never saw the need to remake the original silent film, as Tezuka did a masterful job creating a comic book using

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

Today’s post is not about useful data, but useful theory. This is not my field, but it is fun. The Hardy-Weinberg Equation is a remarkably simple bit of theory that comes from the logical relationships between genes and genotypes. Given some assumptions, you can readily calculate either the gene

The Long View 2007-03-30: Human Nature, Human Rights, Iranian Motives, Goodbye Bees

This is a fun one: I hadn’t remember that John J. Reilly referenced Greg Cochran and John Hawks in 2007. John also mentions a fairly standard criticism of any attempt to understand human behavior in terms of evolution, the Just So Stories of Kipling. It is sometimes true that

Fst and Selection

Greg Cochran had an instructive Twitter exchange on Fst and adaption, which he expanded into a blog post at West Hunter. Genetic similarity is usually described using the statistic Fst, fixation index. The fixation index is a useful number, but it doesn’t mean what a lot of people seem