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• Is Daphnia Evolving at “Lightning Speed”?

  November 12, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

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  Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres

  November 11, 2024 The Royal Society

  how stable biospheres evolve: whether they are a result of chance events or instead the inevitable consequence of the evolutionary interplay between the organisms and their environments. The meeting inevitably considered Earth history, but also exoplanets

• Book

  Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew

  November, 2024 Aaron D. Hornkohl Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures

  According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) versus post-Restoration Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH).

• New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life

  November 11, 2024 Pallab Ghosh BBC

  The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, they may have oceans, and the moons may even be capable of supporting life, scientists say.

• The Lucy Fossil’s Extraordinary Journey to Becoming an Icon of Human Evolution

  November 11, 2024 Bernard Wood Scientific American

  The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances

• Octopus and Fish Plan a Complex Coordinated Hunt

  November 11, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Cosmic connections: our changing vision of the heavens

  November 11, 2024 Amber Dance Nature

  From maps of the stars to the multiverse, four enlightening art shows reveal diverse impressions of the cosmos.

• Book

  Dining with dinosaurs and more: Books in brief

  November 11, 2024 review of five of the best science picks Andrew Robinson

  The Chinese Computer ... Just Following Orders ... Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party ... Why Ecosystems Matter ... When the Ice is Gone

• At Scientific American: Humans Can Learn To Echolate

  November 11, 2024 Mind Matters

  There is a basis for the surprising claim that humans can learn a bat’s sensory skill.

• News Update/Commentary

  The mystery of ‘selfish' B chromosomes in rye solved

  November 11, 2024 Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Science Daily

  Some chromosomes, such as B chromosomes, can increase their inheritance rate to their own advantage. These extra chromosomes are found in many plants, animals, and fungi and rely upon various strategies

• Epic Fail: Million Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare

  November 11, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Even with infinite trials and all available time, this old icon cannot succeed, scientists say

• New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

  November 11, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• Intelligent Design Is a “Scientific Hypothesis,” Though Mistaken

  November 11, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Atheist Richard Dawkins

• Video

  David Kipping, Religious Deception, and Evolution

  November 9, 2024 Darwin's God YouTube

• Possible Breakthrough: Bee Gene Specifies Complex Hive Behavior

  November 9, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors to modify or switch off the dsx gene in selected bees

• A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

  November 9, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Niagara Falls is Eroding Faster Than You Think!

  November 8, 2024 Is Genesis History? YouTube

  Since the 1930's, arguments have been made that the Niagara Gorge would take longer than the Bible would say. Kurt Wise reveals evidence that Niagara Gorge is the product of much faster erosion than traditionally thought.

• Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?

  November 8, 2024 Kelsey Johnson New Scientist

  In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing

• Continuous evolution of user-defined genes at 1 million times the genomic mutation rate

  November 8, 2024 Gordon Rix, et al. Science, v.386, n.6722

  We can extract intricate design principles underlying protein structure, function, and adaptation from patterns of conservation and change across natural homologs. However, nature took millions of years

• Do We Need Language To Think? Some Researchers Say No

  November 8, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  At one time, it was strictly a philosophical issue but then neuroscientists got involved

• News Update/Commentary

  Deep-sea corals are home to previously unknown bacteria with extremely small genomes

  November 8, 2024 University of Oldenburg Science Daily

  Microbes lack ability to break down carbohydrates -- species belong to new family of marine bacteria

• News Update/Commentary

  Elephant turns a hose into a sophisticated showering tool

  November 8, 2024 Cell Press Science Daily

  Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants' remarkable skill in using a hose as a flexible shower

• News Update/Commentary

  Chimpanzees perform better on challenging computer tasks when they have an audience

  November 8, 2024 Cell Press Science Daily

  The findings suggest that this ‘audience effect' predates the development of reputation-based human societies

• News Update/Commentary

  New insights into the Denisovans

  November 8, 2024 Trinity College Dublin Science Daily

  New hominin group that interbred with modern day humans

• An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

  November 8, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The human biological advantage over AI

  November 7, 2024 William Stewart AI & Society

  If artificial general intelligence (AGI) is achieved, AI systems may be able to understand, reason, problem solve, create, and evolve at a level and speed that humans will increasingly be unable to match, or even understand.

• Memories Are Not Only in the Brain

  November 7, 2024 James Devitt New York University

  Study shows kidney and nerve tissue cells learn and make memories in ways similar to neurons

• When the Brain Cells in the Petri Dish Stare Back

  November 7, 2024 Jonathan Birch Wall Street Journal

  Scientists have created brain ‘organoids’ that may be showing early signs of sentience. Should that give researchers pause?

• Chinese rover finds evidence of ancient Martian ocean

  November 7, 2024 Daniel Lawler phys.org

• First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were

  November 7, 2024 Mariana Lenharo Nature

  The sex and ancestry of five people who died in the eruption are revealed by genetic material embedded in the casts.

• Revisiting the mid-Pleistocene transition ocean circulation crisis

  November 7, 2024 Sophia K. V. Hines, et al. Science, v.386, n.6722, p.681-686

  The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT), approximately 1.25 to 0.85 million years ago, was a period during which the glacial cycle changed from 41,000 years to 100,000 years in duration.

• To Think or Think Not. Tech Pioneer Worries About the AI Future

  November 7, 2024 Mind Matters

  Tech pioneer Paul Graham (co-founder of Y Combinator) fears that AI will kill the ability to write.

• News Update/Commentary

  Finding function for noncoding RNAs using a new kind of CRISPR

  November 7, 2024 New York University Science Daily

  RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that hundreds of noncoding RNAs are essential -- not ‘junk' -- including in human development and cancer

• News Update/Commentary

  What makes human culture unique?

  November 7, 2024 Arizona State University Science Daily

  Evolutionary anthropologist presents innovative idea about why we are dominating the world over other animals

• News Update/Commentary

  New study maps dramatic 100-million-year explosion in color signals used by animals

  November 7, 2024 University of Arizona Science Daily

  A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in the last 100 million years.

• Evolving Upright Posture Is No Walk in the Park

  November 7, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The transition from quadruped to biped is much more complex than once thought

• The Machine Model in Medicine

  November 7, 2024 Stephen J. Iacoboni Evolution News & Science Today

• If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

  November 6, 2024 Robin George Andrews New Scientist

  From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars

  November 6, 2024 M. M. Tremblay, et al. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, v.32

  Amazonian-age Martian meteorites contain products of indigenous aqueous alteration; yet, establishing when this alteration occurred, and therefore when liquid water was available in the planet’s crust, has proven challenging.

• Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago

  November 6, 2024 Marissa Tremblay, Ryan Ickert, and Cheryl Pierce Purdue University

  The Lafayette Meteorite was chipped off the surface of Mars and then sped through space for roughly 11 million years. It eventually found its way into a drawer at Purdue University in 1931

• How do brains coordinate activity?

  November 6, 2024 Brandon Robert Munn The Conversation

  From fruit flies to monkeys, we discovered this universal principle

• Why “humanity’s last exam” will ultimately fail humanity

  November 6, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

• Clues to the origin of embryonic development in animals

  November 6, 2024 Thibaut Brunet Nature

  How did the characteristic pattern of embryonic cell divisions during animal development evolve? Analysis of the multicellular development of an organism related to animals now provides some answers.

• How an Ocean-Sized Lake May Have Formed on Ancient Mars

  November 6, 2024 Saima May Sidik Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  The catastrophic collapse of Mars’s atmosphere may have melted its polar ice cap, creating an ice-covered southern sea.

• Cats Can Eavesdrop on Human Conversations -- Sort Of

  November 6, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  In a recent study from Japan, researchers have shown that cats understand more than we thought they did

• Neuroscientist Seeks the First Spark of Human Consciousness

  November 6, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  It's a challenge. Human consciousness is very hard to define for the purposes of this kind of research

• News Update/Commentary

  The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg

  November 6, 2024 Université de Genève Science Daily

  a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii has been dated at over a billion years, well before the appearance of the first animals

• News Update/Commentary

  Use of ‘genetic scissors' carries risks

  November 6, 2024 University of Zurich Science Daily

  The CRISPR tool is capable of repairing the genetic defect responsible for chronic granulomatous disease. However, researchers have now shown that there is a risk of inadvertently introducing other defects.

• Remembering Michael Ruse

  November 6, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Orphan Gene Paper Blows Off the Cover

  November 5, 2024 Darwin's God YouTube

  A new Claudio Casola paper shows that orphan genes are not going away.