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How population size shapes the evolution of guppy fish
February 6, 2024 Nature
A long-term fish experiment reveals how a mechanism called density dependence, in which the population growth rate slows as the number of individuals rises, affects population dynamics on time scales relevant for ecology and evolution.
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Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt -- and Ours -- to Intelligent Design
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Is 23andMe -- the Hot Gene Testing Startup -- Now Worthless?
February 5, 2024 Mind Matters
Birthed in Silicon Valley among high-tech go-getters, it should still be steaming along, right? But traditional bedrock business realities cursed it at its birth
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News Update/Commentary
A rare recent case of retrovirus integration
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
An infectious gibbon ape leukaemia virus is colonizing a rodent's genome in New Guinea
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery of moths' warning sound production explained
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed.
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News Update/Commentary
Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
New study reveals how gene expression shapes the diverse smelling and tasting abilities of different fly species. Most genes are surprisingly stable, but thousands have evolved to create unique olfactory landscapes.
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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
February 5, 2024 Nature
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book. | See Also Pan MacMillan
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The Conserved Complexity of Eye Cell Types
February 5, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Animists in Modern Dress: Origin-of-Lifers
February 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The spirits of the molecules give rise to animated complex systems, goes the new false religion
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Darwinists Devolve
February 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity
February 5, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.121, n.7
“Complex multicellularity,” conventionally defined as large organisms with many specialized cell types, has evolved five times independently in eukaryotes, but never within prokaryotes. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon
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JWST is most in-demand telescope ever -- leaving many astronomers in the cold
February 5, 2024 Nature
Reviewers will probably approve only one in every nine research proposals submitted in latest application cycle.
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Why Is Theology the Most Important Empirical Science?
February 4, 2024 Mind Matters
Arguing pro or con about the existence of God has resulted in many successful and/or widely accepted theories in science
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Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and “The Game of Life”
February 4, 2024
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How Earth Was Designed for Technological Advancement
February 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference
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Asked at Psychology Today: Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 4, 2024 Mind Matters
We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing
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Creation Dialogue -- Young or Old?
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Marcus Ross and Hugh Ross
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Philosopher Tweets on Consciousness -- and Gets Feedback
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Tulane U’s Kevin Morris tweeted that “the brain/ nervous system IS consciousness,” and started a broad discussion with many views represented
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When a Brilliant Man Has a Very Confused Perspective ...
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb simply doesn’t seem to see that human beings are more valuable than advanced machines
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How a Militant Marxist (and Atheist) Found God
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Why would a militant communist, indoctrinated to hate Christians, become a follower of Jesus? What scientific evidence and personal experiences convinced him to radically change the direction of his life?
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News Update/Commentary
Mechanism discovered that protects tissue after faulty gene expression
February 2, 2024 Science Daily
A study has identified a protein complex that is activated by defects in the spliceosome, the molecular scissors that process genetic information.
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Machines vs. Organisms
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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Your appendix is not, in fact, useless
February 2, 2024 National Public Radio
This anatomy professor explains
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Cyber Plagiarism: When AI Systems Snatch Your Copyrighted Images
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Outright copying of others’ images may put system’s owners in legal jeopardy. Let's look at U.S. legal decisions
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Human Intelligence Is Fundamentally Different from Machine Intelligence
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Design theorist William Dembski discusses the problems we will encounter when we try to integrate the two when, say, sharing the road with self-driving cars
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Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
The research team hopes to improve care of livestock by establishing what they do and don’t feel about the way they are treated
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Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
February 2, 2024 CNN
Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply.
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New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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To infinity and beyond
February 1, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6682, p.488
A physicist’s wild romp through the multiverse probes space-time, string theory, and everything in between | See Also Amazon
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Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve
February 1, 2024 New Scientist
Tiny male anglerfish fuse their bodies into the larger females, and this strange strategy may have helped the fish diversify widely in the deep sea
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Multiverse Madness!
February 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
from astrophysicist Paul Sutter
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How Flies Control Eyes Size
February 1, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Getting left-right symmetry doesn’t just happen. It is regulated by specialized machines.
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SETI, artificial intelligence, and existential projection
February, 2024 Physics Today, v.77, n.2, p.36-42
SETI’s birth during the Cold War may have prompted consideration of existential threats to humanity and proposals for using nuclear bombs to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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Olivine May Have Given Life a Jump Start
February 1, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A mineral common throughout the solar system nudges a reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde.
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At least 37 publications affiliated with Harvard Medical flagged for alleged manipulated results
February 1, 2024 Not the Bee
in the first month of 2024
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Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?
February 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Christof Koch Misunderstands About the Mind and the Brain
January 31, 2024 Mind Matters
In his revealing interview at Closer to Truth, the Allen Institute neuroscientist, though he doubts physicalism, attributed subjective experiences to “brains”
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Mysterious artifacts suggest modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for millennia
January 31, 2024 Science
Hunters of our species braved cold, harsh conditions as they pushed into ice age Europe
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Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?
January 31, 2024 ars technica
Simulations all the way down -- the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.
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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
January 31, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 Science Daily
Mysterious technocomplex ascribed to Homo sapiens, representing most northerly settlement at that time
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What was it like when dark energy rose to prominence?
January 31, 2024 Big Think
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
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What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life
January 31, 2024 New Scientist
Scientists have analysed the stars that an upcoming NASA telescope will target in its search for biosignatures, narrowing down the candidates for those that could host potential extraterrestrial life
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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 New Scientist
DNA from bones found in a cave in Germany has been identified as from Homo sapiens, showing that our species endured frigid conditions there as they expanded across the continent
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Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools
January 31, 2024 Nature
Analysis of stone tools and DNA reveals when modern humans reached northern Europe, and why human brain cells grow so slowly.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 Nature
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens
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Stone tools in northern Europe made by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago
January 31, 2024 Nature
DNA analyses of skeletal fragments from a site in Germany provide evidence that humans, rather than Neanderthals, were responsible for a particular stone-tool industry called the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician.
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Ancient DNA Shows Neanderthals and Denisovans Descending from Noah in the Line Ham
January 31, 2024 Answers Research Journal, v.17, p.43-61
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Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
January 31, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Hidden, Now Revealed