Faves: mohit

Mutation: A Genetic Mutation That Causes Humans to Walk on All Fours

mohit — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:15:49 GMT

Quoted: All four families have a few things in common. First, the people with Unertan syndrome are all the products of incestuous marriages. Children of closely-related people often suffer birth defects. Also, the children who walk on all fours are developmentally disabled; some are unable to talk.

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What My Genome Says About Me

mohit — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:41:30 GMT

A Wired writer had his genome scanned, and this is what he found...

Quoted: I had my genome scanned by Navigenics and 23andMe. Here's what I learned.

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23andMe - Welcome to You.

mohit — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:09:57 GMT

This is the personal dna service mentioned in my previous fave.

Quoted: Welcome to 23andMe, a web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, you can use our interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.

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Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside - New York Times

mohit — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:33:29 GMT

Quoted: Quoted: The implications were clear. There is a reason that fat people cannot stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot stay fat when they force themselves to gain weight. The body’s metabolism speeds up or slows down to keep weight within a narrow range.

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Independent Online Edition > Genetic breakthrough that reveals the differences between humans

mohit — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:46:45 GMT

Quoted: Instead of having just two copies of every gene - one from each parent - we have some genes that are multiplied several times. Furthermore these "multiple copy numbers" differ from one person to another, which could explain human physical and even mental variation.

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Amazon.com: Journey of Man: DVD

mohit — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:09:37 GMT

Good documentary. He uses dna from blood samples to build a family tree for the human race. Four stars instead of five only because the narrator/scientist is a little high on himself.

Quoted: This show is so compelling and complete in its coverage of how we/man evolved and traveled out of Africa. Dr. Wells travels to Namibia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Arizona, Brazil, North Australia, and South India among other places. He incorporates interviews with other scientists to support his work - such as linguists.

Quoted: Wells also relies on a controversial theory of cognitive development that suggests that early homo sapiens may have looked like modern humans by around 100,000 years ago, but that brain development lagged far behind. According to this theory, somewhere around 60,000 years ago, there was a "great cognitive leap forward," during which the human brain became essentially modern.

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