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One gene stops ovaries from turning into testes : Not Exactly Rocket Science
In science, we don't often get to talk about male repression, but a new discovery gives us just such a chance. It turns out that ovaries can only remain ovaries by constantly suppressing their ability to become male. Silence a single gene, and adult ovaries turn into testes. That adult tissues can be transformed in this way would be surprising enough, but doing so by changing a single gene is truly astonishing.
My Genome, My Self - Steven Pinker Gets to the Bottom of his own Genetic Code - NYTimes.com
Last fall I submitted to the latest high-tech way to bare your soul. I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along with my medical history.
Human-Chimp Gene Comparison Hints at Roots of Language | Wired Science | Wired.com
By comparing how a gene critical for language works in humans and chimpanzees, researchers have identified an entire network of genes involved in the incredible linguistic powers of Homo sapiens.
Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment
In 1988, an associate professor started growing cultures of Escherichia coli. Twenty-one years and 40,000 generations of bacteria later, Richard Lenski, who is now a professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University, reveals new details about the differences between adaptive and random genetic changes during evolution.
Genes affect our likelihood to punish unfair play
As a species, we value fair play. We're like it so much that we're willing to eschew material gains in order to punish cheaters who behave unjustly. Psychological games have set these maxims in stone, but new research shows us that this sense of justice is, to a large extent, influenced by our genes.
Two Monkeys Get the Gift of Color
The Neitzes, with Katherine Mancuso and other colleagues, used the technique of gene therapy to introduce the gene for the missing red pigment into the cone cells of the monkeys’ retinas. Several months after the therapy, Dalton and Sam were able to see a world in which red hues were visible and oranges no longer looked like lemons, the researchers say in the current issue of Nature.
Ant Lovers Unite! Will Wright And E.O Wilson On Life And Games : NPR
A recent interview with E. O. Wilson
Genes That Make Us Human
Finding genes that have evolved in humans among our genome's 3 billion bases is no easy feat. But now, a team has pinpointed three genes that arose from noncoding DNA and may help make our species unique. Pennisi 2009 (901): 2 -- ScienceNOW
The Politics of Biological Determinism
Stephen Jay Gould talks about biological determinism, IQ and discrimination. - Vol 14 No 2 - Rethinking Schools Online
Restating the case for human uniqueness
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about ‘clever chimps’ using tools, doing maths and feeling emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates. by Helene Guldberg (sp!ked review of books)
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despite the very small difference in the gene coding sequence between humans and chimps, some of the important genetic differences are in genes that regulate a whole host of other genes.
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‘Understanding that a demonstrator intends his actions to make something, allied to detailed copying of every move he makes, allied to the reciprocal understanding in the demonstrator’s mind that he knows something you don’t and therefore has to teach you it, produces a potent ratchet effect.’
Can Culture Be Encoded in DNA? New Research Says "Yes"
The "Nature versus Nurture" debate just got more complicated. (Well, even more complicated than the original "If you really think you can reduce all of biology to such a simplistic division you're missing pretty much every point involved" complication.) Birds have been observed reconstructing cultural information in complete isolation, meaning that culture can be genetically encoded.
Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865) by Gregor Mendel
Mendel's Paper (English - Annotated)
Basic Principles of Genetics
Introduction to Mendelian Genetics
A Patchwork Mind: How Your Parents' Genes Shape Your Brain
We each have two parents, but their genetic contributions to what makes us us are uneven. New research shows we are an amalgam of influences from Mom and Dad : Scientific American
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genes from Mom and Dad do not always exert the same level of influence on the developing fetus
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A Patchwork Mind: How Your Parents' Genes Shape Your Brain
We each have two parents, but their genetic contributions to what makes us us are uneven. New research shows we are an amalgam of influences from Mom and Dad : Scientific American
Science Functional Genomics Resources: Epigenetics
To provide an extra dimension to coverage in the 10 August 2001 special issue, we're launching a new epigenetics section here on the Science Functional Genomics Web site. On this page, you'll find a collection of links to interesting Web resources on chromatin, methylation, imprinting, and a variety of other topics with an epigenetics bend. Also, we've gathered together a selection some groundbreaking research papers, Reviews, and Perspectives published in Science over the past five years, in a special new epigenetics section of our Functional Genomics Research Archive.
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