- Feb 2019
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www.smithsonianmag.com www.smithsonianmag.com
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A History of Slavery and Genocide Is Hidden in Modern DNA
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- Jan 2019
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psycnet.apa.org psycnet.apa.org
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Lewontin’s fallacy
For the article to name this fallacy and thoroughly debunk it, see Edwards, A. W. F. (2003). Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy. BioEssays, 25, 798-801. doi:10.1002/bies.10315
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Figure 3.
I can't believe we got away with putting this image into a scholarly article.
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- Mar 2018
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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have been selectively bred
There's a difference between selective breeding and altering via genetic engineering. I believe that genetic modification falls into the second category, always.
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- Nov 2017
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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The background puzzle: how identical mutations in the same gene lead to different disease symptoms
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- Oct 2017
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academic.oup.com academic.oup.com
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‘DeExtinction Movement’ (The Long Now Foundation, 2014b). This project supports the genetic engineering of endangered species (altering them physically to become more resilient in the Anthropocene) and the cloning and wholesale re-creation of extinct ones—passenger pigeons, wooly mammoths—work that founder Stewart Brand promotes as ‘genetic rescue’.
The Long Now Foundation and its views open up a whole chasm of moral, ethical, and legal questions with this 'DeExtinction Movement'. How is genetically engineering endangered species a form of 'genetic rescue'? These species are dying out because of man and man's actions, which is a terrible reflection of the worst part of human nature, but it does not give us the right to clone nature and 'whitewash' all that we have done before. Just because we may have the capacity to do so, does not mean we should. We cannot simply decide that extinction is fine because we can create genetically engineered species in the future to 'make up' for our mistakes. How are we expected to learn from our mistakes if we can simply rewind and start again?
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- Jun 2017
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www.thehindu.com www.thehindu.com
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R1a lineages form only about 17.5 % of Indian male lineage, and an even smaller percentage of the female lineage. The vast majority of Indians owe their ancestry mostly to people from other migrations, starting with the original Out of Africa migrations of around 55,000 to 65,000 years ago, or the farming-related migrations from West Asia that probably occurred in multiple waves after 10,000 B.C., or the migrations of Austro-Asiatic speakers such as the Munda from East Asia the dating of which is yet to determined, and the migrations of Tibeto-Burman speakers such as the Garo again from east Asia, the dating of which is also yet to be determined.
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www.ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk
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Interactive map of human genetic history revealed
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- May 2015
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www.kurzweilai.net www.kurzweilai.net
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Transhumanists are at war with the bioconservatives. This just sounds like a William Gibson sci-fi novel. We live in amazing times. That said, global bans on technology and science never work; they just really mess things up. Regardless of what the bioconservatives think, there are cultures that will embrace these technologies (and already do). Historically, and possibly without exception, countries that ban or hobble new technologies eventually regret it because at least some of their neighbors will not follow suit. Further, by outright turning their back on the technology, they lose any voice they might have had in determining how it will be employed.
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- Feb 2015
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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SCID is the most severe form of primary immunodeficiencies,[4] and there are now at least nine different known genes in which mutations lead to a form of SCID.[5]
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- Sep 2013
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www.scribd.com www.scribd.com
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A child who has been veryleniently brought up can acquire a very strict conscience. But it would also be wrong to exaggerate thisindependence; it is not difficult to convince oneself that severity of upbringing does also exert a stronginfluence on the formation of the child’s super-ego.
genetic vs. environmental influences on the formation of conscience
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