race is not devoid of biological meaning

Even the old and outmoded view of race is not devoid of biological meaning. A group of researchers compared a broad sample of genes in over 3,600 individuals who self-identified as either African American, white, East Asian, or Hispanic. DNA analysis showed that these groups fell into genetic clusters, and there was a 99.84 percent match between which cluster someone fell into and their self-designated racial classification. This surely shows that even the old concept of race is not “without biological meaning.”

--The Ideological Subversion of Biology by Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja

@NoahCarl90 и @RichardDawkins да и все подряд, конечно. twitter бурлит и кипит. ждем инквизицию. там, вообще-то, в основном про гендер, но про расы того, что цитирует @NoahCarl90, достаточно для аутодафе по законам добра и красоты.

cellular landscape

@SteveStuWill

existence of biological sex

Harvard lecturer blasted by colleague for defending existence of biological sex

Enter Carole Hooven: @hoovlet

Dr. Carole Hooven is a Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology (“HEB”) at Harvard University, a position she’s held for 20 years. - americanthinker.com

google carole hooven sorted by date

Sputnik redux

где граница

Сейчас я изучаю, как из молекулярных сигналов возникает в мозге память и как так сложилось за миллионы лет эволюции. Тут волей-неволей приходится думать в терминах, сильно напоминающих коаны. Если я замеряю память через молекулы, то где граница между памятью и движением этих молекул? Как понять, где механизм мышления, а где само мышление?

- Хлопок одной ладонью, Николай Кукушкин

правильно сформулированный вопрос содержит в себе ответ

„Если ты задаёшь вопрос, значит, ты уже знаешь половину ответа.“ — Хань Сян-цзы

Reproductive isolation

вот вроде бы интересуюсь вопросом, а целые обширные темы мимо меня прошли

The mechanisms of reproductive isolation are a collection of evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes critical for speciation. They prevent members of different species from producing offspring, or ensure that any offspring are sterile. These barriers maintain the integrity of a species by reducing gene flow between related species. - Wiki

так уже и умру тупым. ну да и хер с ним.

Ardrey (The Social Contract) пишет про это:

In the human species, language as a rule forms the sharpest barrier between populations, and that is why the line of language forms usually the national boundary, and why, with rare exceptions, political boundaries enclosing varying language groups tend to enclose trouble as well. But even within an interbreeding population of common language, still religion, geography, allegiances of custom or occupation, economic class, even degree of education all tend to reduce to smaller groups any high probability of meeting and mating. And so the smallest unit of truly equivalent chance is known as a deme, or isolate, and Dobzhansky has suggested that among people even today isolates number hundreds, rarely thousands. A study of marriage records in France has revealed the paradox that in the mountains such isolates average about 1,100 while in Paris, where one would expect broad mixture, they are only about 900.

900 в Париже, Карл!

вот что Google находит на reproductive isolates господибожемой

field of subjectivity

Developments in molecular biology over the past two decades have singularly narrowed the domain of the mysterious, leaving little open to vitalist speculation but the field of subjectivity: that of consciousness itself. There is no great risk in predicting that also in this area, for the time being still ‘reserved,’ such speculation will prove as sterile as in all the others where it has been practised up to now. - pg 29, Chance and Necessity [pdf] by Jacques Monod

Rupert Sheldrake writes that "As history of science this is naïve".

interestingly, Monod consider Hegel to be animist!

Think of such mighty efforts as those of Leibnitz, or of the colossal and ponderous monument Hegel raised. But idealism has not by any means been the only refuge for a cosmic animism. At the very core of certain ideologies said and claiming to be founded upon science, the animist projection, in a more or less disguised form, turns up again. 

дальше он пишет про Teilhard de Chardin, и далее - марксизм.

nature first

What percentage of the distinctive human capacity for learning is genetic? If there is a 1-2% genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees, this means that, somewhere in that small percentage, lay genes for the distinctively human capacities for learning. Before culture can be conceived as the breaker of biology’s leash, biology must make human culture possible in the first place.

The nature to nurture is what is most distinctly human. The unique dynamics of human culture and civilization are made possible by evolved biological differences between human animals and nonhuman animals. Is the analogous paradox of Jewish-universalism traceable to an inordinate biological capacity for learning?

- Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note

Just as some whites once considered blacks so racially distinct that sexual intercourse was considered bestiality, progress would now demand that this stigmatization of bestiality be deemed uncivilized altogether. Bestiality emerges as the cutting edge of civilization. Discrimination against bestiality is thus barbarism. Marriage between human animals and nonhuman animals should be legalized and normalized. Despised animals of all species should emerge from their hiding corners. Ugly creatures of all species unite!

прямо Коммунистический Манифест написал Mitchell Heisman

Just as the breadth of the rights of individual organisms expands the kinship circle past speciesism so that nonhuman animals are included, the depth of rights expands the individual circle past only multicellular individualism so that the rights of single cell individuals are included.

дальше

hyperandrogenism

Female track athletes with elevated levels of testosterone, a condition known as hyperandrogenism, will be required to lower the amount of the hormone circulating in their blood for six months before being allowed to compete from the quarter-mile to the mile in major international events like the Olympics and the world championships. - Track’s New Gender Rules Could Exclude Some Female Athletes

нет ли тут антисемитизма

в комментариях упоминается генетически унаследованный интеллект, так что...

fucking ridiculous. все эти соревнования по бегу между африканцами и европейцами, баскетбол без разделения на группы по росту, как боксеров делят по весу, футбольнуе команды в Саратове, за которые играют негры... в общем - хрень полная кругом, но статьи в газеты пишут как ни в чем не бывало, с упорством, достойным лучшего применения.

а вот и сама Caster Semenya, из-за которой весь сыр-бор разгорелся



см. также А люди все роптали и роптали

sparks at fertilization

According to a study published in Scientific Reports, an explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme. The intensity of the sparks, scientists say, indicates the egg's potential to develop into a healthy embryo.

- During Conception, Human Eggs Emit Sparks

там ссылки на Nature... no kidding, The zinc spark is an inorganic signature of human egg activation:

Egg activation refers to events required for transition of a gamete into an embryo, including establishment of the polyspermy block, completion of meiosis, entry into mitosis, selective recruitment and degradation of maternal mRNA, and pronuclear development.

Ламарк и Наполеон

Жан Батист Пьер Антуан де Моне де Ламарк вручает свою «Философию зоологии» императору Наполеону (картина М.Езучевского).

@ Ризома жизни: новый виток теории эволюции, Химия и жизнь. французы конкретно говорят: эволюции толком нет, а есть горизонтальный перенос генов и прочее всяческое блуждание (суета и томление духа, ага). естественного отбора нет, борьбы за существование - тоже. вопрос происхождения видов остается без ответа. ну то есть не совсем без ответа, там всякие "бутылочные горлышки" и прочая, но как-то не слишком убедительно.

Езучевский создал замечательную серию картин по истории естествознания. - Wiki

см. также Дети негров и Дети Китая

еще

а почему Данте в переводе Катенина?

ну а rhizome - это уже в следующей жизни пойму. или никогда.

Dragonfly

Dragonflies have a high power/weight ratio, and have been documented accelerating at 4 G linearly and 9 G in sharp turns while pursuing prey. - Wiki

Разговор с эмбриологом

много про морфогенез, плюс ссылки и комментарии.