Daily Data Dump

Friday Weird Science: Smells Fishy? Check your semen. I'm not going to describe the post. You read it (though perhaps not on a full stomach). Freeing human eggs of mutant mitochondria. I'm pretty sure this would be banned by the Orange Catholic Bible. Scientists Devise Way to Link Complex Traits With Underlying Genes. At least for some model organisms, though the authors claim at the end of their paper that they could be transfered to humans. Mixed-Race People Perceived as 'More Attractive,' UK Study Finds. In general I think these sorts of studies are the inverse of the results of Charles Davenport on Jamaican mulattoes, scientists sometimes know what findings are congenial to the Zeitgeist, and will keep looking until they find them. I suspect there might be some effect here, but I doubt much in most non-inbred populations. To me the issue is diminishing returns, the same sort of ...