South Dakota Politics (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... inclusive fitness), then the factors of inheritance responsible for those traits (what we call genes) will be well represented in future generations. If the organism's traits inhibit successful reproduction, then to that degree its genes will be less well represented. That's the whole idea. It is an astoundingly powerful idea. The environments within which the various organisms...
StyleList Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... we picture Avon ladies, we think of the vintage door-to-door sales women or coworkers who hand out little catalogs. But apparently, we need to think again . The traveling beauty sales ladies rolled up to Vogue UK's offices in a silver Airstream trailer, tour bus style, complete with the company's logo. [ Vogue UK ] THE MEAN GENE Some of us less brave women skipped the Jimmy...
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... much what you would expect from comparing humans, or comparing Neandertals. Considering that the generation-to-generation rate of mutations of the mitochondrial DNA is maybe an order of magnitude higher, I'd say that consistency is pretty impressive. Much more important, when it comes to comparing humans and chimps, we've come billions of base pairs beyond the mitochondrial DNA alone....
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Nepotism For Dummies by digby As with most aristocracies, the younger generations tend to be rather, shall we say, weak . This is likely to be an understatement when it comes to Little Luke Russert. Look at this exchange between him and proud village auntie Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell: Pelosi here has proved herself to be a really tough customer. This isa politician who really knows where the...
Buzzin Golf (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Tiger Woods made up for a stuttering display in the third round of the Australian Masters by hitting a final round 68 to win the title by two shots from local hero Greg Chalmers in Melbourne. Woods becomes only the third American to win the Australian title, following in the footsteps of Mark O’Meara in 1986 and Gene Littler in 2002, and is Woods’ seventh victory of the year. The world...
Aussie Golfer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Start the mayhem. Tiger Woods arrives in Australia this morning to play the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath. To get the ball rolling, here's a few facts about the Australian Masters and a few things recent and not so recent quotes. Only five players from the northern hemisphere have ever won the event: Gene Littler (1980), Bernard Langer (1985), Mark O'Meara (1986), Colin Montgomerie...
