pedigree research Archive

  • In my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring.  If these offspring are your children which each […]

    Reconstructing Wiston

    In my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring.  If these offspring are your children which each […]

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  • In a lecture titled Some Practical Problems of Immortality, game developer Ernest Adams tackles the issues of dealing with the notions of immortality we get from fiction. He designates “Virtual […]

    Virtual Immortality

    In a lecture titled Some Practical Problems of Immortality, game developer Ernest Adams tackles the issues of dealing with the notions of immortality we get from fiction. He designates “Virtual […]

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  • Collie Eye Anomaly is an inherited genetic disease which causes abnormal structure within the eye.  It has variable expression from mild dysfunction to blindness and there is no treatment.  CEA is […]

    Through Anomalous Eyes

    Collie Eye Anomaly is an inherited genetic disease which causes abnormal structure within the eye.  It has variable expression from mild dysfunction to blindness and there is no treatment.  CEA is […]

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  • Lusia at Lassie Gets Help puts forth Dewi Tweed, the 2010 International Supreme Champion sheep dog as proof that the “genetic bottleneck” in Border Collies is benign or perhaps a […]

    The BC Bottleneck

    Lusia at Lassie Gets Help puts forth Dewi Tweed, the 2010 International Supreme Champion sheep dog as proof that the “genetic bottleneck” in Border Collies is benign or perhaps a […]

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  • The culmination of the previous post is this statement: Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies […]

    A Breed Apart II

    The culmination of the previous post is this statement: Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies […]

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