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• Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory, Dies at 84

  February 26, 2001 Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

• Prehistoric Asteroid a Killer

  February 23, 2001 Jeremy Manier Chicago Tribune

  scientists say earth hit 251 million years ago

• The facts back Darwin

  February 23, 2001  Arthur Caplan / The Philadelphia Inquirer

  a critical finding was missing amid all the media coverage of the mapping of the human genome; responses at bioethics.net

• Teaching Intelligent Design -- What Happened When? A Response to Eugenie Scott

  February 23, 2001 William A. Dembski theism.net

  design theorists argue that intelligent design constitutes a valid scientific research program aimed at understanding the effects of intelligence in the natural world

• "The search for extraterrestrial intelligence" requires free registration

  February 22, 2001 T. L. Wilson Nature, v.409, p.1110-1114

• "Chance and necessity: the evolution of morphological complexity and diversity" requires free registration

  February 22, 2001 Sean B. Carroll Nature, v. 409, p.1102-1109

• "The habitat and nature of early life" requires free registration

  February 22, 2001 E. G. Nisbet and N. H. Sleep Nature, v. 409, p.1083-1091

• "Desperately seeking aliens" requires free registration

  February 22, 2001 Brian W. Aldiss Nature, v. 409, p.1080-1082

• "Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years" requires free registration

  February 22, 2001 Lucas J. Lourens, Rolf Wehausen, and Hans J. Brumsack Nature, v. 409, p.1029-1033

• Evolution Outdated

  February 22, 2001  Gailon Totheroh Christian Broadcasting Network

• Slashing and slicing

  February 22, 2001  Henry Gee Nature science update

  about the violent eating habits of a Jurassic predator

• Teaching Intelligent Design: What Happened When?

  February 22, 2001 William A. Dembski Metaviews

  a response to Eugenie Scott

• The Great Gene Debate

  February 21, 2001 Matthew Herper Forbes

• The Chance of the Gaps

  February 21, 2001 William A. Dembski International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design

  paper presented at a philosophy conference in Boulder, Colorado

• POPULATION BIOLOGY: Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation

  February 20, 2001 Kevin Higgins and Michael Lynch / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

• Mother fights evolution curriculum

  February 20, 2001  WorldNetDaily

  mother in West Virginia faces battle with state board of education over accuracy of information

• Technical Problems with Intelligent Design Theory (lecture)

  February 19, 2001 Dave Thomas New Mexicans for Science and Reason, University of New Mexico

• Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries

  February 19, 2001 Stephen Jay Gould New York Times

• Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine

  February 19, 2001  Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle surprisingly low number of genes raises big questions

• EVOLUTION: Land plants divided and ruled

  February 19, 2001 John Whitfield Nature science update

  AAAS Special from San Francisco

• Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine

  February 19, 2001 Tom Abate San Francisco Chronicle

  surprisingly low number of genes raises big questions

• Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries

  February 19, 2001 Stephen Jay Gould New York Times

• Allelic melanism in American and British peppered moths (pdf)

  February 19, 2001 B. S. Grant Journal of Heredity, v.95, n.2, p.97-102

• Pratt likely to review biology standards

  February 17, 2001 Topeka Capital-Journal, Kansas

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution Debate Lingers Just Beyond the Spotlight in Kansas

  February 17, 2001 Fox News

• "MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: In the Beginning Was the Word"

  February 16, 2001  R. C. Lewontin Science, v.291, n.5507, p.1263-1264

  review of: Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the

• News Update/Commentary

  A galaxy cluster on the X-ray edge

  February 16, 2001 MSNBC

  10 billion light-years from Earth, galaxies shed light on how the universe evolved

• Event honors life of evolutionist

  February 16, 2001  Rosemary Nottoli Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee), v.86, n.27

  Darwin Day, February 12-14

• Kansas Puts Evolution Back Into Public Schools

  February 15, 2001 John W. Fountain New York Times

• "Evolutionary analyses of the human genome"

  February 15, 2001 Wen-Hsiung Li, Zhenglong Gu, Haidong Wang and Anton Nekrutenko Nature, v.409, p.847-849

• The Human Genome

  February 15, 2001 Nature, v.409, p.814-823 7 news and views

• Kansas Schools Believe in Evolution Once Again

  February 14, 2001 John Milburn Fox News (AP)

• Kansas takes its evolution seriously

  February 14, 2001  CNN

• Intelligent Design Network's John Calvert on creationism vs. evolution in schools

  February 13, 2001 CNN.com

• Book

  Nature news service celebrates the human genome

  February 12, 2001 Nature science update links to 8 articles

• Science rivals open the book of life

  February 12, 2001 Roger Highfield Electronic Telegraph

• Genome Analysis Shows Humans Survive on Low Number of Genes

  February 11, 2001 New York Times

• Life's Blueprint in Less Than an Inch

  February 11, 2001 Rick Weiss Washington Post / only a small DNA segment makes a human

• Genome 'treasure trove'

  February 11, 2001 BBC News the first detailed look at the human genome has revealed a few surprises

• Tilling History With Biology's Tools

  February 10, 2001 Emily Eakin New York Times

• Tiniest of Particles Pokes Big Hole in Physics Theory

  February 9, 2001 New York Times

• Destiny is in our grasp, say scientists

  February 9, 2001  Mark Henderson The Times, United Kingdom

  mankind will have the ability to control and alter its evolutionary destiny within 30 years using secrets unlocked by the mapping of the human genetic code

• "HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS: Muon Experiment Challenges Reigning Model of Particles" requires free registration

  February 9, 2001 Charles Seife / Science, v.291, n.5506, p.958

• "RADIOACTIVITY: Are Protons Leaving in Pairs?" requires free registration

  February 9, 2001 Phil Woods / Science, v.291, n.5506, p.995-997

• "The Risk of Extinction

  February 9, 2001 9 February 2001

  John L. Gittleman and Matthew E. Gompper / Science, v.291, n.5506, p.997-999

• Six-million-year-old fossil predates 'Lucy' 

  February 8, 2001 Elaine Ganley Associated Press

• Physicists put 'spin' on theory

  February 8, 2001 Dan Vergano USA Today

  possible flaw in a theory that has been a foundation of scientific thought for more than
  30 years

• "Evolutionary radiations and convergences in the structural organization of mammalian brains" requires free registration

  February 8, 2001 Willem de Winter and Charles E. Oxnard Nature, v. 409, p.710-714 

• "Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay" requires free registration

  February 8, 2001 R. Cayrel, et al. Nature, v.409, p.691-692

• "Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution" requires free registration

  February 8, 2001 Alan Cooper, Carles LaLueza-Fox, Simon Anderson, Andrew Rambaut, Jeremy Austin, and Ryk Ward Nature, v.409, p.704-707