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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans

  March 18, 2025 Trevor Cousins, Aylwyn Scally, and Richard Durbin  Nature Genetics

  Understanding the history of admixture events and population size changes leading to modern humans is central to human evolutionary genetics.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Fossil feathers from the Colli Albani volcanic complex

  March 18, 2025 Valentina Rossi, et al. Geology

  (Late Pleistocene, Central Italy) preserved in zeolites

• When Did Humans First Speak?

  March 18, 2025 Tibi Puiu ZME Science

  New Genetic Clues Point to 135,000 Years Ago ... Language is one of the biggest force multipliers in our species. It appeared earlier than expected.

• Modern humans may have descended from at least two ancestral populations

  March 18, 2025 Lauren Fuge Cosmos Magazine

• Our Universe Was Born with ‘Anti-Universe' Twin

  March 18, 2025 Ian Randall Newsweek

  The universe may have been born out of nothing, with an “anti-universe" twin where time runs in the opposite direction -- rather than exploding from an infinitely small and dense point, or “singularity."

• The Crazy Rafting Iguanas

  March 18, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Choosing to believe Darwinism and Deep Time requires accepting “crazy” notions like rafting iguanas

• Scientists Just Discovered Dinosaur Cells That Have Survived 68 Million Years

  March 18, 2025 Melissa Ait Lounis MSN

  Fossils of dinosaur bones that appeared to contain soft tissues, blood vessels, and even cells -- materials once thought to deteriorate too rapidly to survive millions of years -- brought a profound shift in paleontology and the study of ancient life.

• Gravity may arise from quantumness of space

  March 17, 2025 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely -- and shows how it could be tested in experiments

• Intelligent Design Is a Pillar of Academic Freedom

  March 17, 2025 Eric Hedin Evolution News & Science Today

  Not Just a Scientific Theory

• News Update/Commentary

  Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji

  March 17, 2025 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

  The voyage, the longest known transatlantic dispersal of any land animal, took place within the last 34 million years

• News Update/Commentary

  How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive

  March 17, 2025 University of Colorado, Boulder Science Daily

  For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

• News Update/Commentary

  How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birds

  March 17, 2025 University of Chicago Science Daily

  3D modeling shows how larger brains triggered changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics that powered a flexible feeding system for modern birds

• Video

  The Origin of Life: Science's Greatest Mystery

  March 17, 2025 Otangelo Grasso Origins TV

  How Did Life Begin? The Mystery of Life’s Origin Explored in Detail!

• How did Earth get such a strange moon?

  March 17, 2025 Paul Sutter space.com

  Exploring the giant impact theory. Surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our planet.

• Fine Tuning Against the Multiverse?

  March 17, 2025 Tim Sommers 3 Quarks Daily

  In “Calculating God,” Robert J. Sawyer’s first-contact novel, the aliens who arrive on Earth believe in the existence of God -- without being particularly religious. Why?

• We’ve finally discovered how your brain differs from a chimp’s

  March 17, 2025 Tom Howarth BBC

  Turns out that our brains are quite unique compared to our closest animal relatives -- if you look hard enough.

• European hunter-gatherers boated to North Africa during Stone Age, ancient DNA suggests

  March 17, 2025 Jess Thomson Live Science

  DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat around 8,500 years ago.

• What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us

  March 17, 2025 Graham Lawton New Scientist

  Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it -- and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can find new treatments for ourselves

• Why Do Women Have a Silent X Chromosome?

  March 17, 2025 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Major new discovery: The female inactivated X-chromosome can be reactivated

• The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

  March 17, 2025 Gregory Rummo Evolution News & Science Today

• Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time -- 20 years since a key discovery

  March 17, 2025 Jasmina Wiemann Nature

  The 2005 finding of cells and blood vessels in dinosaur bone launched a systematic search for fossil remnants of biomolecules, creating innovations in methods and applications.

• The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins 1.5 million years ago

  March 17, 2025 Marta Mirazón Lahr Nature

  Excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal evidence of the systematic use of animal bones as a raw material for prehistoric tools.

• In Moral Terms, Are Microbes More Important Than People?

  March 16, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Mind Matters

  Jeff Sebo advocates widening the moral circle to include, plants, microbes, and computers in a sort of radical equality

• Rocks and racism?

  March 16, 2025 Miriam Frankel The Guardian

  How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Soda lake phosphorus fluxes controlled by biological uptake imply abundant phosphate in plausible origin-of-life environments

  March 15, 2025 Sebastian Haas, et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.393, p.63-74

  Phosphate is crucial for the origin of life but typical environmental concentrations are too low for prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules like nucleic acids.

• Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

  March 15, 2025 Donna Ferguson The Guardian

  Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online

• Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

  March 14, 2025 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Evolutionary adaptations of doublet microtubules in trypanosomatid parasites

  March 14, 2025 Matthew H. Doran Science, v.387, n.6739

  Trypanosomatids are parasites transmitted by insects that cause lethal and debilitating diseases in humans and other vertebrates. These parasites depend on a tail-like oscillating appendage called a flagellum to travel

• Ghosts among the philosophers

  March 14, 2025 Matyáš Moravec Aeon

  Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?

• The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth

  March 14, 2025 Chris Simms New Scientist

  We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth -- and it could help us search for it on other planets

• News Update/Commentary

  ‘Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

  March 14, 2025 Stanford University Science Daily

  electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. This provides evidence that microlightning may have created building blocks necessary for early life

• AI in Biology: So Is This the End of the Experiment? No.

  March 14, 2025 Erik J. Larson Mind Matters

  But a continuing challenge is that many of the most biologically important proteins don’t adopt a single stable structure. Their functions depend on structural fluidity

• Researchers Ask: When Are Children Conscious Before Birth?

  March 14, 2025 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Human consciousness in general is acknowledged to be a Hard Problem and prenatal consciousness is a subset of that

• The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

  March 14, 2025 Eric Cassell Evolution News & Science Today

  “Directed Evolution”

• Impact that formed the Moon struck a practically newborn Earth

  March 14, 2025 Paul Voosen Science

  New studies of Apollo rocks push the Moon's formation back more than 100 million years

• Video

  Is There More Wonder in Genes Than in Gods?

  March 13, 2025 Alex O'Connor YouTube

  Richard Dawkins discusses his latest book; The Genetic Book of the Dead, religion, evolution, and concludes with a Q&A session.

• Dinosaur-era mammals’ fur color revealed for first time

  March 13, 2025 Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Science

  Preserved pigments suggest Jurassic mammals had dark fur, consistent with a nocturnal lifestyle

• Indiana’s House of Representatives Once Voted Unanimously to Change the Value of Pi

  March 13, 2025 Jack Murtagh Scientific American

  How an incorrect value of pi almost got codified into law

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration

  March 13, 2025 Ruoshuang Li, et al. Science, v.387, n.6739, p.1193-1198

  In the past decade or so, the identification of melanosomes in some dinosaur feathers and skin has led to the suggestion that many bore bright and complex coloration. Less work has been done to explore the coloration of early mammals.

• Earth’s magnetic dipole collapses, and life explodes

  March 13, 2025 John A. Tarduno Physics Today

  The present-day magnetic field protects life, but an ancient phase when it nearly collapsed corresponded with a key step in evolution. Changes in the planet’s deep interior may have started it all.

• News Update/Commentary

  Violent supernovae ‘triggered at least two Earth extinctions'

  March 13, 2025 Royal Astronomical Society Science Daily

  Researchers say these super-powerful blasts -- caused by the death of a massive star -- may have previously stripped our planet's atmosphere of its ozone, sparked acid rain and exposed life to harmful ultraviolet radiation

• What Was It Like for Ancient Humans to Meet Cousin Species?

  March 13, 2025 Deborah Barsky Real Clear Science

  Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing, and extinctions.

• A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way

  March 13, 2025 Dalton Conley New York Times

  Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences.

• Spacetime is not a continuum, it's made up of discrete pieces

  March 13, 2025 Sumati Surya The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Spacetime emerges from causal sets

• Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves

  March 13, 2025 Anna M. Hennessey The Institute of Art and Ideas

  Genetic code isn't just hereditary

• Ape-Man Shenanigans Exposed

  March 13, 2025 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Recent presentations reveal hoaxes in paleoanthropology that still are continuing today

• Jupiter: The Mighty Guardian of Earth

  March 13, 2025 Jonathan K. Corrado Institute for Creation Research

• Life as a Habitability Requirement

  March 13, 2025 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• To Christians: Don't be embarrassed by the Book of Genesis

  March 13, 2025 John Doane Christian Post

  about 200 years ago ideas about millions of years of earth history were becoming popular. That wasn’t going to “work” if Genesis continued to be interpreted with creation in six days and a worldwide flood. A workaround of Genesis was needed.

• These 5 ‘living fossils’ still roam the Earth

  March 13, 2025 Sruthi Gurudev National Geographic

  Hundreds of millions of years later, these species are nearly indistinguishable from their prehistoric ancestors.