T here is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relative...

E ntanglement in physics is about action that seems to transfer some sort of 'information' across distances at speeds faster than th...

H ere are some follow-up reflections on my recent post about GWAS and kindred methods and claims.  I know I'm being contentious, but sc...

A long time ago, in 2000, in Nature Genetics , Joe Terwilliger and I critiqued the idea then being pushed by the powers-that-be, that the g...

T his post will seem to be a serious diversion from our usual topics, but in another sense it is actually of the same sort.  There's a l...

For her final project in Anthropology/Biology 282G Sapiens: The Changing Nature of Human Evolution , recent University of Rhode Island g...

I t's the age of genetics.  Billions of dollars have been spent on identifying genes for important traits like diseases, fun traits like...