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I fail to understand how Morton et al. could ever have been accepted for publication. Just because someone prefers something does not in the least imply he’s going to get it. Older women may well be – and are – less desirable, but they’re available and get pregnant all the same. Later children of older women have siblings to care for and look after them Read the rest of this entry »
Sie sprechen von den „besetzten Gebieten“. Bitte erklären Sie uns, wie der Staat heißt, dessen Gebiete Israel angeblich besetzt. Britisches Mandatsgebiet? Das war einmal. Jordanien? Will das Westjordanland aus Angst um die eigene Sicherheit nicht geschenkt haben. Palästina? Ist nicht mehr als ein UN-Beschluss, ein Gebilde Read the rest of this entry »
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In 1990 the rate of child deaths under five in the bottom quarter of countries was 14 times that of the top quarter. By 2011 that gap had risen to 23 times. So how do nature justify their ridiculous claim of a closing gap? Read the rest of this entry »
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Bowles and Choi make a testable prediction for some parts of the upper Paleolithic. Interestingly four of the seven Neanderthal teeth with cooked starches in Henry 2011 (PNAS 108, 486–491, list of 2011-01-14) are from their window of 38–36 ka BP and at 46 ka, Read the rest of this entry »
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The Toba eruption at 77 ka was a very nice explanation for lot of interlocking mutually confirming data and now all that seems to be completely thrown over by Lane et al. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jasechko’s model stands and falls on his assumption, that plant transpiration does not fractionate. Not only is that theoretically highly improbable, but Kahmen et al. have shown fractionation to be the case Read the rest of this entry »
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McLauchlan et al. offer little evidence for their assumed connection between nitrogen availability and isotopic signature. Their assumption of its being unchanged today seems totally unfounded. Besides lightning nitrogen fixation used to be mainly biological, with a huge preference for the common light nitrogen. Read the rest of this entry »
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For several reasons I was very sceptical about Scally’s extrapolation from single generation mutation rates to evolutionary time spans. (List of 2012-10-14, my comment 2012-09-27) Reading Fu it seems I was right to be. Read the rest of this entry »
