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• Where Did Humans Evolve? (Probably Not Where You’re Thinking)

  February 22, 2024 Gemma Tarlach Atlas Obscura

  For decades, East Africa was considered the birthplace of our species. Fossils from Morocco suggest otherwise.

• News Update/Commentary

  Three years later, search for life on Mars continues

  February 22, 2024 University of Cincinnati Science Daily

  Science team discovers evidence of hydrothermal systems using Perseverance rover

• News Update/Commentary

  Copies of antibiotic resistance genes greatly elevated in humans and livestock

  February 22, 2024 Duke University Science Daily

  Duplicate genes provide a mechanism for resistance to spread and enable evolving resistance to new drugs.

• News Update/Commentary

  Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot

  February 22, 2024 University of Michigan Science Daily

  More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.

• News Update/Commentary

  Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals' predatory ancestors

  February 22, 2024 University of Bristol Science Daily

  The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers suggest.

• News Update/Commentary

  Compound vital for all life likely played a role in life's origin

  February 22, 2024 University College London Science Daily

  A chemical compound essential to all living things has been synthesized in a lab in conditions that could have occurred on early Earth, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life.

• Ignoring the Sauropod in the Room

  February 22, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Evolutionists continue to ignore dinosaur soft tissue as they pontificate about fossilization

• Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”

  February 22, 2024 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• Prehistoric Children with Down Syndrome Were Valued, Burials Show

  February 21, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  The six found so far from one culture, identified by DNA evidence, did not live long but they were buried with grave goods

• Why Chatbots (LLMs) Flunk Routine Grade 9 Math Tests

  February 21, 2024 Gary Smith Mind Matters

  Lack of true understanding is the Achilles heel of Large Language Models (LLMs). Have a look at the excruciating results

• A Canticle for Leibowitz, a Canticle of Speculative Warning

  February 21, 2024 Peter Biles Mind Matters

  A 1959 novel's speculation of nuclear fallout is yet a story of hope.

• Did Neanderthals Use Glue? Researchers Find Evidence that Sticks

  February 21, 2024 James Devitt New York University

  Analysis of 40,000-year old tools reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction

• Blog Post

  Multiverses Are Pseudoscientific

  February 21, 2024 John Horgan

  Way back in 1990 I tossed off a fluffy item for Scientific American, “Here a Universe, There a Universe,” about whether our cosmos might be just one in an “infinitude,” as several theories of physics implied. I kept the tone light

• News Update/Commentary

  An awkward family reunion: Sea monsters are our cousins

  February 21, 2024 Stowers Institute for Medical Research Science Daily

  Scientists uncover how sea lamprey brain development is remarkably similar to that of humans

• News Update/Commentary

  Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution

  February 21, 2024 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Science Daily

  Comparison of over 200 high-quality butterfly and moth genomes reveals key insights into their biology, evolution and diversification over the last 250 million years, as well as clues for conservation.

• Yeast Made to Harvest Light Hint at Evolution’s Past

  February 21, 2024 Kamal Nahas The Scientist

  Scientists transferred light-harvesting proteins into yeast for the first time, shining a light on the past lives of eukaryotic cells.

• Archaeometric Dating

  February 21, 2024 Andrew A. Snelling Answers in Genesis

  The only reliable way to calibrate dating methods is with the Bible’s history.

• Shelled Eggs Crack Evolution

  February 21, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Explaining shelled eggs by natural selection is a major problem for evolution

• Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

  February 21, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Revealing what makes bacteria life-threatening

  February 21, 2024 University of Queensland Science Daily

  Researchers have discovered that ‘bad' bacteria can't make cellulose on their cell surface, ultimately leading to severe disease

• Video

  Mercury Shouldn't Be Liquid. But It Is.

  February 21, 2024 YouTube

  Mercury, a.k.a. quicksilver, is famous for being a liquid at room temperature ... and also below room temperature. But you can't use a high school chem class to explain why. Instead, we need a little help from Einstein.

• Is the human brain really the most complex object in the universe?

  February 21, 2024 Thomas Lewton New Scientist

  There are 86 billion neurons in your brain, roughly the same number as there are galaxies in the observable universe. Whether the mind is more complex than the cosmos, however, is up for debate

• News Update/Commentary

  High resolution techniques reveal clues in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass

  February 21, 2024 University of Göttingen Science Daily

  Research team analyses organic material from the early Earth tracing its origin and composition

• Darwin’s Bluff Is a Number 1 New Release on Amazon!

  February 21, 2024 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome

  February 21, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Science Today

• Baleen whales evolved a unique larynx to communicate but cannot escape human noise

  February 21, 2024 University of Southern Denmark phys.org

  since whale songs were first discovered more than 50 years ago, it remained unknown how baleen whales produce their complex vocalizations -- until now

• The life and gruesome death of a bog man revealed after 5,000 years

  February 21, 2024 Ewen Callaway Nature

  Vittrup Man, who died in his thirties, was a Scandinavian wanderer who settled down between 3300 and 3100 BC.

• Why reciprocity is common in humans but rare in other animals

  February 21, 2024 Sarah Mathew Nature

  Reciprocal cooperation can be advantageous, but why it is more common in humans than in other social animals is a puzzle. A modelling and experimental study pinpoints the conditions needed for reciprocity to evolve.

• Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test

  February 21, 2024 Benjamin Thompson and Nick Petrić Howe Nature

  Research suggests a combination of behaviours underlie the evolution of human cooperation, and researchers make an optical disc with enormous storage capacity.

• ‘Useless' appendage of the ovaries may play key role in fertility

  February 21, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  An appendage of the ovaries that had been dismissed as useless may actually help control ovulation and the menopause

• How entropy and equilibrium can help explain consciousness

  February 21, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  Thinking about consciousness from the perspective of a physicist may be key to figuring out whether it is a single phenomenon or a collection of discrete states

• Darwin’s Bluff -- Continued

  February 21, 2024 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage, research suggests

  February 20, 2024 Nicola Davis The Guardian

  Traits associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder could have helped early humans when foraging for food

• It's the spin that makes the difference

  February 20, 2024 Michael Hagmann Empa

  Magnetic effects at the origin of life?

• Materialism matters: The role of philosophy in science

  February 20, 2024 Kieran Schlegel-O'Brien Advanced Science News

• Philosopher: Non-Materialism Is Fashionable Orthodoxy Now

  February 20, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Non-reductionism, which means that the mind is not simply reducible to the brain, is now well accepted, she argues

• 200 years of naming dinosaurs: scientists call for overhaul of antiquated system

  February 20, 2024 Katharine Sanderson Nature

  Some palaeontologists want more rigorous guidelines for naming species, along with action to address problematic historical practices.

• Video

  What is the Mind-Body Problem?

  February 20, 2024 Dean Zimmerman YouTube

  How is it possible that mushy masses of brain cells, passing chemicals and shooting sparks, can cause mental sensations and subjective feelings? How can brain chemistry and electricity be ‘about’ things?

• My Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

  February 20, 2024 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

  It is helpful to consider the question in this way -- not “do we have free will?,” but rather “what does it mean to believe we don’t have free will?”

• Webb telescope finds galaxy larger than Milky Way, and it's upending cosmology

  February 20, 2024 Ben Turner Live Science

  Astronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discovered galaxy dating to roughly 13 billion years ago mysteriously appeared long before that process should have occurred.

• “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

  February 20, 2024 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

  PNAS Paper

• Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

  February 20, 2024 Paul Nelson Evolution News & Science Today

  with one short rule, Philip Ball explains

• Why Intelligent Design Is Not a “God of the Gaps” Argument

  February 20, 2024 Jonathan McLatchie Evolution News & Science Today

  atheist philosopher explains

• Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

  February 20, 2024 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• AI Decodes Scrolls Scorched by Vesuvius' Eruption

  February 19, 2024 Mind Matters

  In 79 AD, Vesuvius reduced a library to charcoal. Remarkably, machine learning technology has begun to decipher scrolls that humans could not unwrap

• These Birds Score as High as Primates in a Puzzling Cognitive Test

  February 19, 2024 Tessa Koumoundouros Science Alert

  Only some animals are known to fathom object permanence -- the idea that something still exists even when it's out of sight.

• More than 275 million never-before-seen gene variants uncovered in US population

  February 19, 2024 Emily Cooke Live Science

  The newly uncovered gene variants were identified as part of an analysis of the DNA of more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who agreed to participate in the All of Us Research Program.

• Blog Post

  Is the Schrödinger Equation True?

  February 19, 2024 John Horgan

• We must put an end to scientism

  February 19, 2024 Giuseppina D'oro iai News

  Reviving humanist explanations

• New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ

  February 19, 2024 Clare Wilson New Scientist

  Research is cutting through historical discrimination and gender politics to get to the truth about differences between the brains of men and women