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Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins
July 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Canadian lake sediments reveal start of Earth's Anthropocene age
July 11, 2023 Reuters
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests
July 11, 2023 The Guardian
Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment
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SIX Biological Evidences for Creation
July 11, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
Some people claim that life has evolved over millions of years, but where's the proof? Does the evidence actually point to these long spans of time or is it just wishful thinking?
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Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil
July 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Postcard from São Paulo
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Our Ancestors Are Constantly Evolving, Just to Keep Up!
July 10, 2023 Mind Matters
Negative biases about our forebears have long been part of science, education, and popular culture. Why?
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Oldest genetic data from a human relative found in 2-million-year-old teeth
July 10, 2023 Nature
Ancient protein sequences identify the sex of Paranthropus robustus fossils and hint at evolutionary relationships.
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“Ancient'' Katydid Fossil is...a Katydid
July 10, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
July 10, 2023 Quanta Magazine
For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity -- and space-time -- are fundamentally classical?
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News Update/Commentary
Caterpillar venom study reveals toxins borrowed from bacteria
July 10, 2023 Science Daily
toxins in the venom of asp caterpillars are completely different to anything seen before in insects. Toxins in the caterpillar venom punch holes in cells the same way as toxins produced by bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella.
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Study reveals how a tall spruce develops defense against hungry weevils
July 10, 2023 Science Daily
A study has identified genes involved in development of stone cells -- rigid cells that can block a nibbling insect from eating budding branches of the Sitka spruce evergreen tree. The insect's attack has stunted the growth of these forest giants.
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How the “Other” ATP Synthase Saves the Planet
July 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Biogeography: Whose Problem?
July 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Don’t think that evolutionists are immune from vexing questions about where species have dispersed
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Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room
July 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Blind Ambition
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News Update/Commentary
Evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale
July 10, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale.
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Blog Post
Evangelical Christians and Human Origins
July 10, 2023 Salvo magazine
A post on Intelligent Design
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Humans Adapted to Diverse Habitats as Climate and Landscapes Changed
July 10, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Long-term changes in Earth’s climate affected the dispersal of human ancestors and their adaptation to diverse habitats
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Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?
July 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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That “Mirror Image" Myth About Identical Twins ... What Happened?
July 8, 2023 Mind Matters
Researcher of identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way
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Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship
July 7, 2023 The Conversation
here’s what to make of it
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Is Earth the only Goldilocks planet?
July 7, 2023 Astronomy magazine
Some scientists believe the universe is teeming with life. Others aren’t so sure.
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Did the Cambrian explosion really happen?
July 7, 2023 Live Science
Something unique does seem to have taken place during this time when so many animal groups first appeared, but it's not an open-and-shut case.
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Does New Mouse Experiment Explain How Humans Lost Their Tails?
July 7, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The Tail of Mice and Men
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Early Chordate Squeezes Darwin
July 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new fossil chordate puts even more bang in the Cambrian explosion
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Ovid in His Exile
July 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive
July 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Book
Animal behaviour intelligently designed!
July 7, 2023 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the mysterious origin of ingenious instincts by Eric Cassell (Discovery Institute, 2021) | See Also Amazon
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Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch -- but is it any good?
July 7, 2023 Nature
By designing an autonomous system that fed prompts to the chatbot, researchers produced a paper that was fluent and insightful. Yet they still have concerns.
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Evolution without accidents
July 6, 2023 Aeon
Despite advances in molecular genetics, too many biologists think that natural selection is driven by random mutations
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The Simplest Synthetic Cells Have Been Seen Evolving Faster Than Natural Ones
July 6, 2023 Science Alert
Single-celled life forms need just the simplest of evolutionary footholds to get a leg up in their environment.
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Half-billion-year-old sea squirt could push back origins of vertebrates, including humans
July 6, 2023 Science
Rare fossil “looks like it died yesterday”
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New Theory Suggests Hardy Tardigrades Evolved from Ancient Worms
July 6, 2023 Gizmodo
A study of 40 tardigrade species and their ancestors suggests that ancestral tardigrades were clawed and worm-like.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan
July 6, 2023 Nature Communications, v.14
Tunicates are an evolutionarily significant subphylum of marine chordates, with their phylogenetic position as the sister-group to Vertebrata making them key to unraveling our own deep time origin.
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News Update/Commentary
Why there are no kangaroos in Bali (and no tigers in Australia)
July 6, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers are using a new model to clarify why millions of years ago more animal species from Asia made the leap to the Australian continent than vice versa. The climate in which the species evolved played an important role.
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Body Design Extends to the Cell
July 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
From the whole body to each individual cell we appear engineered for a purpose
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Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design
July 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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My “Debate” with Professor Dave
July 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Five steps to a world of intelligent life
July 5, 2023 MacQuarie University
Just five major changes in the computational capacity of brains have led to the world of intelligent life around us.
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AI is an existential threat -- just not the way you think
July 5, 2023 The Conversation
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Even a ‘minimal cell’ can grow stronger, thanks to evolution
July 5, 2023 Nature
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Microbes Gained Photosynthesis Superpowers from a ‘Proton Pump’
July 5, 2023 Quanta Magazine
New research reveals how marine microbes use an extra membrane that once had digestive functions to boost their yield from photosynthesis.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolution of a minimal cell
July 5, 2023 Nature, v.620, p.122-127
Possessing only essential genes, a minimal cell can reveal mechanisms and processes that are critical for the persistence and stability of life. Here we report on how an engineered minimal cell contends with the forces of evolution
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Artificial cells demonstrate that ‘life finds a way'
July 5, 2023 phys.org
Evolutionary biologist Jay T. Lennon's research team has been studying a synthetically constructed minimal cell that has been stripped of all but its essential genes.
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This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
July 5, 2023 MIT Technology Review
Science is about to become much more exciting -- and that will affect us all, argues Google's former CEO.
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Rethinking reality: Is the entire universe a single quantum object?
July 5, 2023 New Scientist
In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers, but as a quantum whole linked by entanglement
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Crows can understand probability like primates do
July 5, 2023 New Scientist
When given the chance to peck on symbols that carried different probabilities of getting food, carrion crows learned to choose the one with a higher probability of reward
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News Update/Commentary
AI tests into top 1% for original creative thinking
July 5, 2023 Science Daily
New research suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity.
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers
July 5, 2023 Science Daily
which could help explain why ancestors of modern birds survived when all the other dinosaurs died
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News Update/Commentary
Earth formed from dry, rocky building blocks
July 5, 2023 Science Daily
A new study shows that the so-called planetesimals that accreted together to form Earth must have been composed of dry, rocky materials.
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The Search for ET Artifacts Misses the Elephant
July 5, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today