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If you're a regular reader of my blogs, you don't need to go any further. Otherwise, read on.... Substance: As indicated by the title of the blog I will focus on biological science. Specifically, I'm interested in evolutionary genetics & genomics, human evolution & genomics, as well as odds & ends such as paleoanthropology, phylogenetics and natural history. But science isn't all that I'm interested in, and I will cover topics which catch my fancy, such as history, religion, economics and public policy. On occasion I will synthesize and interweave a scientific perspective into "non-scientific" topics. For example, how do history & biology relate? That path was long blazed by works such as Plagues & Peoples. Religion & biology? As outlined in Breaking the Spell there is a good case to be made that religion is a natural phenomenon which emerges from our evolutionary background. And so on. I am ...