There goes brain fart #2… To investigate how Mendelism may be simulated, we collected data on a common familial behavioral trait, attendance at medical school, among the relatives of 249 preclinical medical students. The “risk” of first-degree relatives going to medical school was approximately 61 times that of the general population. Complex segregation analysis carried [...]
Today I’m gonna ask a simple question: if we were to rerun the film of life a given number of times, pretty much like rerunning a program, would most things happen identically? Of course the program of life has many non-deterministic variables. Would we all still develop eyes and limbs? Would the same music be [...]
It’s a fair question. The claim that religion is supported by evolution is not that shallow. The claim is backed by the argument that children who blindly believe to what their parents say stand a better chance of survival than children who do not. Chances are, children who don’t listen to their parents will end [...]
A while back, while struggling with the final chapters of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species” book, I had the opportunity to borrow a small and apparently dull book from an acquaintance. The acquaintance is a Russian person who had worked in Biotechnologies for decades and the book is Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. [...]