The NY Times has a response to responses to Carl Zimmer’s article on junk DNA, and there I am, the first citation. One thing that’s interesting is that it mentions that there were mixed reactions from readers, with some pushback to the idea…but all the scientists they quote on the subject have no problem at all with the concept of junk in our genome. I looked hard for a link to someone levying a solid criticism, and it ain’t there.
Maybe they don’t exist?
We have an exciting press release from the University of Texas! Human evolution has been demonstrated by psychologists! It’s titled Men’s Preference for Certain Body Types Has Evolutionary Roots. Try reading it critically, though, and you discover it’s yet another set of bad studies overinterpreted by evolutionary psychologists.
The New York Times has responded to all the criticisms of their stupid article on the health dangers of the Apple Watch. And they have done a terrible job.
Three things bothered me about this reply.
Y’all come on out! Come early — we’ve been having packed houses every month this year.
The longer you live, the more likely you are to get cancer. Therefore, party hard and burn out young. Wait, no, that’s not the lesson: therefore, you should all learn about cancer, and a good starting point is The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
But, you say, it’s so long. It is a rather substantial text. But there is going to be an alternative.
Men are also the victims. Read this analysis of a recent paper in human population genetics: coincident with the rise of agriculture, there was a drastic bottleneck in the effective population size of men, but not women — the interpretation is that there was a massive concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few men, who basically used that power to put all the reproductive rights in their hands, and the hands of their sons.
There is a nice infographic to explain the concept.
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