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Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=146
Health Directory, Fitness, Beauty, Nutrition, Weight Loss
HeavyHealth.com provides health links & resources related to health insurance, animal health, beauty, dentistry, diseases & conditions, environmental health, fitness, long term care, medi...
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http://www.heavyhealth.com
Genome Canada
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http://www.genomecanada.ca/home.asp?l=e
Genome Canada
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http://www.genomecanada.ca/home.asp?l=f
Le brevet sur l'animal - Xénotransplantation (Obadia)
l'auteure procède à une analyse comparative de l'état du droit canadien, européen et américain sur la question. Elle examine également les préoccupations éthiques inhérentes au d...
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http://www.puq.uquebec.ca/data/S-1118.html
HumGen - Politiques
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http://www.humgen.umontreal.ca/fr
Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfu...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html
TRIM22: The gene that blocks HIV!
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http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/researchers-discover-gene-blocks-hiv-15593.html
Biology Goes Open Source - Forbes.com
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.htm...
Culture Speeds Up Human Evolution: Scientific American
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=culture-speeds-up-human-evolution
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Human evolution is 'speeding up'
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7132794.stm
23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
For the moment, 23andMe and Navigenics offer genotyping: the strategic scanning of your DNA for several hundred thousand of the telltale variations that make one human different from the ...
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-12/ff_genomics
The Personal Genome
Getting a personal copy of your genome sequence is a lifestyle choice that you may want to consider.
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http://thepersonalgenome.com
Personal Genome Project
Volunteers from the general public working together with researchers to advance personal genomics.
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http://www.personalgenomes.org
Psychology Today: Scents and Sensibility
Hygiene may be such an impediment to sexual signaling that it could explain why so many people in our culture get so physical so fast.
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http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20071228-000001.html
How to find a mate | The scent of a woman (and a man) | Economist.com
Women preferred T-shirts from men whose MHC was most different from their own. What was more, women with similar MHCs favoured the use of similar commercial perfumes.
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http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10493120
Mad Science: Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years
Scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold -- and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate...
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http://io9.com/345728/geneticists-discover-a-way-to-extend-lifespans-to-800-years
Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms --HGP Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
, GM is a special set of technologies that alter the genetic makeup of such living organisms as animals, plants, or bacteria.
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http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml
The dummy's guide to engineering genes
Along with famed MIT computer engineer Tom Knight, Endy is trying to bury the DNA and its nucleotides down the same deep hole that swallowed the 1s and 0s we users never have to thinks ab...
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/the_dummys_guid.html
BBC NEWS | Health | Generosity 'may be in the genes'
Some people may be genetically destined to have a generous personality, Israeli research has suggested.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7133079.stm
Fair Play in the Genes: Scientific American
Ernst Fehr says this study is the first to show the heritability of altruistic punishment and notes that it could serve to "speed up efforts to find concrete genes and the mechanisms the ...
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&articleId=6217A44A-E7F2-99DF-391A49FD9EAAEFF6
Dan Agin: Goodbye Selfish-Gene: A New Upheaval in the Science of Human Behavior
Group selection was mistakenly cast aside during previous decades, that the evidence for group selection is too strong to be ignored, and that the current ideas about how evolution works ...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-agin/goodbye-selfishgene-a-n_b_71019.html
Is Generosity Genetically Programmed?
This suggests that altruism has a long rooted genetic history, which may have taken on a new role during human evolution.
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/91071.php
Humans are still evolving - and it's happening faster than ever | Science | The Guardian
The widespread assumption that human evolution has slowed down because it's easier to live and we've conquered nature is absolutely not true. We didn't conquer nature, we changed it in wa...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/dec/11/evolution
The Real Story on Gay Genes | Sex & Gender | DISCOVER Magazine
Homing in on the science of homosexuality—and sexuality itself.
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/born-gay
Identical Twins Not As Identical As Believed
Differences can spring from unique changes in what are known as epigenetic factors, the chemical markers that attach to genes and affect how they are expressed, in some cases by slowing o...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215121214.htm
Like Sweets? You're More Like A Fruit Fly Than You Think
"The similarity between human and fly responses to sweeteners is astounding, especially in light of the differences in their taste receptors," notes Gordesky-Gold, a Drosophila (fruit fly...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317131642.htm
Early Birds, Night Owls: Blame Your Genes
Those who struggle to get out of bed in the morning may be able to hold their genes responsible, new research suggests.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080126-sleep-genes.html
The Buzz about Epigenetics: Genes, Behaviour and the Environment « Neuroanthropology
Behavioural and environmental data coupled with social statistics from communities across the world can provide [...] useful data for analyzing long-term mental and physical health in rel...
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http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/the-buzz-about-epigenetics-genes-behaviour...
Epigenetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epigenetics is a term in biology used today to refer to changes in gene expression that are stable over rounds of cell division, and sometimes between generations, but do not involve chan...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
SNP Publications
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http://snp.nimh.nih.gov/publications.htm
JCVI: Research / Projects / Synthetic Bacterial Genome / Press Release
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http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/synthetic-bacterial-genome/press-release
the spittoon � About
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http://spittoon.23andme.com/?page_id=2
the spittoon
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http://spittoon.23andme.com
Artificial Wombs - Popular Science
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurebody/dc8d9371b1d75010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
What Color Eyes Would Your Children Have?
A calculator to help determine what eye color your (hypothetical) children will have bases on allele probability.
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http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html
Mouse Party
A flash interactive animation showing several cartoon mice on various drugs. Selecting a mouse takes you to an animation explaining how each drug affects the brain. (primarily in the area...
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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm
Gene explains why people are night owls
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/27/nclock27.xml