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• The First Geologists?

  March, 2024 Jon Spencer GSA Today, v.34, n.3-4, p.4-10

  The rate of evolutionary brain growth (encephalization) in African human ancestors increased dramatically at ca. 3.5 Ma. Crude stone tools first appear in fluvial sediments in eastern Africa at about this time, as does evidence for tool-assisted butchery

• Why Do Universities Ignore Good Ideas?

  March 1, 2024 Jeffrey Funk Mind Matters

  Funding agencies see if the researcher is tenured or has already received funding. It's a vicious cycle.

• Why Humans Can't “Share the Spotlight” with Tool-Using Animals

  March 1, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  As the Ivy League war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out -- and they don’t even notice

• The connection between Darwin’s finches and bacterial flagellar motors

  March, 2024 Mohammed Kaplan Physics Today, v.77, n.3, p.28-33

  The evolution of specialized biological tools used by organisms tells a story about the environments that shaped them.

• Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

  March 1, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Blog Post

  Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room and the Limits of Understanding

  March 1, 2024 John Horgan

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Accurate phenotypic self-replication as a necessary cause for biological evolution

  March, 2024 Seymour Garte Biosystems, v.237

  Highly accurate replication of cellular phenotype is a universal phenomenon in all of life since LUCA and is often taken for granted as a constant in evolutionary theory.

• News Update/Commentary

  Convergent evolution of algal CO₂-fixing organelles

  March 1, 2024 University of Tsukuba Science Daily

  proteins of a CO₂-fixing organelle revealed various pyrenoid-associated proteins among algal groups, suggesting the independent evolution of pyrenoids in different algal groups.

• Video

  Atheist MIT Professor Converts to Christianity After Discovering THIS

  March 1, 2024 Rosalind Picard YouTube

  Picard shares the story of her journey to God. Along the way, she unpacks the critical realization that science, as wonderful as it is, is not the only vehicle to bring us to Truth and that many aspects of human life simply fall outside of science

• News Update/Commentary

  New insights on how galaxies are formed

  March 1, 2024 Lund University Science Daily

  Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error.

• The First Human Embryo Model from Embryonic Stem Cells

  March 1, 2024 Shelby Bradford The Scientist

  Jacob Hanna developed a method for replicating embryogenesis outside of the uterus to understand the underlying mechanisms.

• Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check

  March 1, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

  March 1, 2024 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  How first cells could have formed on Earth

  February 29, 2024 Scripps Research Institute Science Daily

  New phospholipid discovery brings researchers closer to understanding how primordial cells emerged during origin of life.

• Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

  February 29, 2024 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales.

• A Serpentine ‘Explosion’ 125 Million Years Ago Primed Snakes for Rapid, Diverse Evolution

  February 29, 2024 Christian Thorsberg Smithsonian Magazine

  Researchers say an evolutionary “singularity” led to several small, quick changes in snake species, from legless bodies and flexible skulls to chemical-sensing abilities

• How did life on earth begin?

  February 29, 2024 Kasha Patel Washington Post

  The chemical puzzle just became clearer

• Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

  February 29, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• Is There a Solution to Low Quality Research in Science?

  February 29, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Molecular biologist Henry Miller and statistician Stanley Young explain why statistical techniques like meta-analysis won’t solve the basic problem

• Google Gemini Presents a Past That Never Happened

  February 29, 2024 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  You can't trust a bot to give you a history lesson, turns out.

• Is AI the Triumph of Left-Brained Thinking? What Follows?

  February 29, 2024 Mind Matters

  Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist argues that it is and asks us to consider what its cultural lean toward the “left brain” is doing to us

• Book

  Knowing the Neanderthal

  February 29, 2024 April Nowell Science, v.383, n.6686, p.956

  An archaeologist seeks to strip away modern misconceptions about our extinct relatives | See Also Amazon

• Critical junctions in evolution

  February 29, 2024 Lauren Sumner-Rooney Science, v.383, n.6686, p.951-952

  Key traits set the course of de novo visual system evolution in marine mollusks

• The Consensus Conspiracy

  February 29, 2024 Thomas Buckley Brownstone Institute

  What is a consensus? What is a conspiracy? At its heart it is a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something.

• News Update/Commentary

  The Golgi organelle's ribbon structure is not exclusive to vertebrates, contrary to previous consensus

  February 29, 2024 Cell Press Science Daily

  Researchers report that the Golgi ribbon, an organelle structure previously thought to be exclusive to vertebrates, is also present in animal taxa, including mollusks, earthworms, and sea urchins.

• Two-Timers in the Darwin Party

  February 29, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionary rates vary by seven orders of magnitude. What kind of theory is that?

• Study sheds new light on ancient volcanoes' environmental impact

  February 29, 2024 Penn State EurekAlert!

  Mercury rising

• Methodological Naturalism, Analyzed

  February 29, 2024 Miles K. Donahue Springer

  I present and evaluate three interpretations of methodological naturalism (MN), the principle that scientific explanations may only appeal to natural phenomena

• Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design -- Part 1

  February 29, 2024 Randy J. Guliuzza Institute for Creation Research

• Adaptive Genome Modification on the Fly

  February 29, 2024 Jeffrey P. Tomkins Institute for Creation Research

  RNA Editing

• Video

  “Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?" Romanes Lecture

  February 29, 2024 University of Oxford YouTube

  Geoffrey Hinton's public lecture discussed the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and how to ensure it does not take control of humans, and consequently, wipe out humanity.

• How molecular “handedness” emerged in early biology

  February 28, 2024 Scripps Research

  chemists fill a major gap in origin-of-life theories

• A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans and apes

  February 28, 2024 Miriam K. Konkel and Emily L. Casanova Nature

  The lack of a tail is one thing that separates apes -- including humans -- from other primates. Insertion of a short DNA sequence into a gene that controls tail development could explain tail loss in the common ancestor of apes.

• How humans lost their tails -- and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish

  February 28, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  An elegant run of experiments in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s ape ancestors to lose the appendage.

• Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation reactions

  February 28, 2024 Min Deng, Jinhan Yu, and Donna G. Blackmond Nature, v.626, p.1019-1024

  The single chirality of biological molecules is a signature of life. Yet, rationalizing how single chirality emerged remains a challenging goal.

• Video

  The Anthropic Principle: Meaning & Significance

  February 28, 2024 Mario Livio YouTube

  We should expect to observe that the universe in which we live must conform to the conditions required for our presence as observers. This is the unremarkable “Weak Anthropic Principle”

• Video

  No One Can Solve these Origin of Life Questions

  February 28, 2024 James Tour YouTube

  Debate and 60 Day Challenge Review | Lee Cronin

• Why are all proteins ‘left-handed’? New theory could solve origin of life mystery

  February 28, 2024 Robert F. Service Science

  Experiments suggest chemical reaction rates explain how amino acid pairs, and perhaps DNA and RNA, get biased toward one handedness

• Our ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don’t we?

  February 28, 2024 Christina Larson Associated Press

• News Update/Commentary

  How molecular ‘handedness' emerged in early biology

  February 28, 2024 Scripps Research Institute Science Daily

  Chemists fill a major gap in origin-of-life theories.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes

  February 28, 2024 Bo Xia, et al. Nature, v.626, p.1042-1048

  The loss of the tail is among the most notable anatomical changes to have occurred along the evolutionary lineage leading to humans and to the ‘anthropomorphous apes’, with a proposed role in contributing to human bipedalism.

• The Whitmore Helipad Fold, Western Grand Canyon, Arizona

  February 28, 2024 Andrew A. Snelling Answers Research Journal

  Such a conclusion would be preposterous if there were ~450 million years between deposition of the Bright Angel Formation and its deformation in the Whitmore Helipad fold.

• On the Origin of Life

  February 28, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  a Measure of Intelligent Design’s Impact on Mainstream Science

• Shannon and Kolmogorov Information

  February 28, 2024 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Science Today

• From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

  February 28, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Do we have cosmic dust to thank for life on Earth?

  February 28, 2024 Peter Rüegg Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

  It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted into ice sheets.

• Could Our Minds Be Bigger Than Even a Multiverse?

  February 28, 2024 Eric Holloway Mind Matters

  The relationship between information, entropy, and probability suggests startling possibilities. If you find the math hard, a face-in-the-clouds illustration works too

• The Information Age Has Forgotten Formation

  February 27, 2024 Jonathan Bartlett Mind Matters

  We need more than mere information. We need practices, habits, and experiences that will positively shape who we become.

• News Update/Commentary

  RNA as a common language, presented in extracellular speech-bubbles

  February 27, 2024 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Science Daily

  Decoding the conversations between microbes of hypersaline environments reveals deep insights into the origins of complex life.

• Why Mainstream Media Can No Longer Really Fight Censorship

  February 27, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Whether they realize it or not, by accepting funds in order to survive, the MSM will gradually become agencies of government