Daily Data Dump - Tuesday

Big brains attributed to mother's care. Interesting that the correlation between various characteristics and brain size is highly sensitive to the taxa you include in your scatter plot. Marsupials seem to be substantially different from placental mammals, while primates are different from placentals as a whole. Throwing all the mammalian taxa into the analysis results in maternal care being a robust predictor, but that conclusion seems less interesting than the contingencies of the residuals. First Irish Genome Sequenced. The paper is open access, and can be found on the Genome Biology website. Nothing too surprising, though interesting to note that they uncovered ~10% more SNPs by performing a deeper read of one individual's genome. This sort of thing is breathing down HapMap3's neck, and that's a good thing for the accumulation of human knowledge. Young Japanese Seek Second, and Third, Jobs. This quote struck me: “The Japanese economy is not ...