Genomic Hobgoblins III

[nyuanshin]

John hits on yet another problem while riffing off the latest paper looking at recent regional adaptation in humans:
Imagine if you had a sample of men and women, and you chose an arbitrary cutoff of stature to distinguish them. Say, everyone over 5 foot 7 is a man. Well, that will do better than chance, but you've included a lot of women in your

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[airstrip]

Wait, he has a blog?

[nyuanshin]

I confess: I've been holding out on this information.

[ihuitl]

Oh, the theories in biology are all just social constructs anyway...just like physics and chemistry.

*ducks*

[ihuitl]

Seriously, though, all good points.