Victor Loux → Bookmarks → genetics

A Study in Milk

yle.fi/a/3-5315095

As the joke goes, foreigners can feel truly at home in Finland once they have contracted local ailments and allergies, such as lactose intolerance. Dispelling the myth, facts indicate that foreigners do not develop lactose intolerance in Finland as much as discover it.

• finland, tag
• milk, tag
• lactose_intolerance, tag
• diet, tag
• nutrition, tag
• genetics, tag
• ·1 month ago

On Island of the Colorblind, Paradise has a Different Hue

education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/island-colorblind-paradise-has-different-hue/

An island in the Pacific has a unique genetic history that affects how its people understand color.

• colour, tag
• genetics, tag
• island, tag
• colourblind, tag
• ·1 year ago

How dangerous is the Covid mutation? - UnHerd

unherd.com/2020/12/how-dangerous-is-the-covid-mutation/

• scicomm, tag
• genetics, tag
• coronavirus, tag
• mutation, tag
• ·3 years ago

coaltrace: simulating genealogies using charged particles

bedford.io/projects/coaltrace/

This is a simulation of the basic demographic / genealogical process. Individuals are born and individuals die. This causes lineages to branch and to disappear, and causes the population to share a common ancestor at some time in the past. The coalescent provides a mathematical description of these patterns of ancestry.

• simulation, tag
• physics, tag
• animation, tag
• genetics, tag
• visualisation, tag
• processingjs, tag
• population, tag
• ·8 years ago