tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post6946730249209935152..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Recent human evolution: European heightSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-7055535542649799612013-12-21T03:20:33.030-05:002013-12-21T03:20:33.030-05:00Nice to show that SNPs for height predict the shif...Nice to show that SNPs for height predict the shift in height from (tall) Northern to (short) Southern Europeans. The paper doesn't really highlight the fact, but drift looks like a real patsy hypothesis for complex traits: In the "no selection, just drift" neutral world, 1,400+ SNPs all have to have happened to "drift" synchonously from North to South... Hence the p TimothyBatesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-14948671992337337172012-08-25T01:23:58.253-04:002012-08-25T01:23:58.253-04:00Folks like Phelps (and yourself?) are undoubtedly ...Folks like Phelps (and yourself?) are undoubtedly outliers. The population mean is more representative of selective trends than individual outliers are.Jeremy Bergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-16602009111701600142012-08-21T04:43:10.420-04:002012-08-21T04:43:10.420-04:00It sounds like that paper assumes height gene dist...It sounds like that paper assumes height gene distributions are uniform. "Genetic differences that are important in the heights of individuals approximately cancel in determining the average heights of entire populations." And dose this while trying to contrast their height with the "modern image of American Indians as being sickly victims succumbing to European disease..." John Tollisonhttp://www.facebook.com/tollisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38557066900129600612012-08-20T22:43:25.409-04:002012-08-20T22:43:25.409-04:00What environment selects for freaks like Michael P...What environment selects for freaks like Michael Phelps and me, tall but with the legs of a short person.MtMorunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84182014838029324292012-08-20T19:54:52.259-04:002012-08-20T19:54:52.259-04:00Perhaps you are assuming that Native Americans hav...Perhaps you are assuming that Native Americans have the same height. Plains Indians were taller: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/tallind.htm , whereas there southern and coastal cousins were shorter.craignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-30715025572465142482012-08-20T09:48:14.984-04:002012-08-20T09:48:14.984-04:00So is this the reason my family and I are comprise...So is this the reason my family and I are comprised of so many tall people. I'm 6'1" in height and I have a number of first cousins who are taller than me.Louis Burkehttp://twitter.com/LaochCailiuilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-12894726515968193942012-08-20T03:51:36.977-04:002012-08-20T03:51:36.977-04:00Much ado about nothing. The reification of concept...Much ado about nothing. The reification of concepts like "selection", "sweeps" and "fixation" has confused people about results which should never have been controversial.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-23424925017975201742012-08-20T02:26:20.156-04:002012-08-20T02:26:20.156-04:00I've read that Europeans mixing with American ...I've read that Europeans mixing with American Indians have a tendency to produce tall kids because the two groups have different genes promoting height. I've wondered why Mexicans, who have mixed a lot more mixing than us, aren't thought of as being tall, but maybe differences in northern and southern european height gene distribution has something to do with this.John Tollisonhttp://www.facebook.com/tollisonnoreply@blogger.com