accepting responsibility
Why is it that as soon as something goes wrong, someone high up in the company/government involved “accepts full responsibility” then expects everything to be okay?
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Statistics Seminar - 17/03/20084.00pm Monday, Mathematical Institute Theatre D Dr. Vincent Macaulay, University of Glasgow “Out of Africa: moving on “ A recent dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa is now widely accepted, partly due to the pioneering work of members of the Wilson lab examining genetic variation in the maternally-transmitted genome mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Subsequent work on other parts of the genome has in general supported this conclusion (although not unequivocally). In this presentation, I will review the evidence that has led to this position, but go on to show that the evidence from mtDNA is not yet exhausted. I will report recent work of myself and others that has attempted to tease out, using a little phylogenetics and probability, more of the characteristics of the process by which modern humans came out of Africa. I shall in particular address the route taken across Eurasia, which is hotly disputed. The mtDNA variation in isolated “relict” populations in southeast Asia supports the view that there was only a single dispersal from Africa, most probably via a southern coastal route, through India and onward into southeast Asia and Australasia. In this picture, there was an early offshoot, leading ultimately to the settlement of the Near East and Europe, but the main dispersal from India to Australia ~65,000 years ago was rapid, most probably taking only a few thousand years. |
IPA talk 11/03/087pm, Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews. Dr Hans Blix “Time for a Revival of Disarmament?” Best quotations: |
update…The train is wobbling. |
stuck on a train…I am stuck. I am stuck 3 or 4 stories above ground level. I am stuck 3 or 4 stories above ground level, on a train somewhere in the region of Burntisland. On the plus side I can read Wine Library. So not all is bad. |
