The genetic history of Africans

This week’s Science magazine has an absorbing article by Sarah Tishkoff et al. on the genetic relationship and evolutionary history of African populations.  (Ann Gibbons has a one-page summary here.)  This project was a massive one, involving DNA genotyping of 1,327 genes in 2,432 Africans from 113 populations, as well as 98 African-Americans and 21 [...]

More creationism in the UK

This time it’s the scary Ken Ham, head of the Biblical literalist organization Answers in Genesis.  (Ham is also the founder of the hildariously stupid Creation Museum in Kentucky, where you can have your toddler photographed on top of Triceratops wearing a saddle [see below].) Over at Butterflies and Wheels (a superb rationalist blog), Ed [...]