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New Views of Neanderthal Are Reshaping Prehistory
December 11, 2022 Psychology Today
New evidence of Neanderthal society helps reveal humanity’s place in the world.
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Mammals Were Planning To Overthrow the Dinosaurs Well Before the Asteroid Impact
December 11, 2022 syfy
We are inevitable
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The Multiverse Is Real
December 10, 2022 Real Clear Science
Just Not How You Think
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Darwin’s Challenge: The Origins of the Eye
December 9, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The design of the eye in various living things defies evolutionary explanation.
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Can DNA Last 2 Million Years?
December 9, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new claim about ancient DNA deserves some scrutiny. Why did evolutionists double their maximum lifetime of DNA so quickly?
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Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates
December 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Towards evolutionary predictions
December 9, 2022 Evolutionary Applications
Current promises and challenges
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MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?
December 9, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Study of Millions Finds Genetic Links to Smoking and Drinking
December 9, 2022 The Scientist
In the largest study of its kind, scientists find nearly 4,000 genetic variants that may predispose people to alcohol and tobacco use behaviors.
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Why the laws of physics don't actually exist
December 9, 2022 New Scientist
What we call laws of physics are often just mathematical descriptions of some part of nature. Ultimate physical laws probably don't exist and physics is all the better for it, says theoretical physicist
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“Why we might be alone"
December 8, 2022 YouTube
Public Lecture from Nov 18th 2022 held at Columbia University
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News Update/Commentary
How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed
December 8, 2022 Science Daily
Agriculture is driving rapid evolutionary change, not just on farms but also in wild species in surrounding landscapes, new research has found.
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Consciousness may not require a brain
December 8, 2022 iai News
Are plants conscious?
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Amazing ammonite animatronics!
December 8, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Move Over, Keats? Here Is AI-Generated Poetry
December 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
“Why we might be alone"
December 8, 2022 YouTube
Public lecture from November 18th 2022 held at Columbia University.
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National Science Foundation Grants Are Subverting the Integrity of Journalism and Election Offices
December 8, 2022 Townhall
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An Intelligent Design Debate with a Chatbot
December 8, 2022 Mind Matters
Discovery Institute Fellow stumps OpenAi’s new chatbot in just a few rounds
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Micro RNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?
December 8, 2022 Mind Matters
While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs
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DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea
December 8, 2022 The Conversation
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How Genes Drive Your Dog's Lovable and Wacky Behavior
December 8, 2022 Gizmodo
Researchers at the Dog Genome Project have identified 10 lineages of modern dogs, each of which features a unique mix of behavioral tendencies.
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William Lane Craig on the Unexpected Applicability of Mathematics to Nature
December 8, 2022 Wintery Knight
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News Update/Commentary
World's simplest animals get their place in the tree of life
December 8, 2022 Science Daily
The study comes more than 100 years after the discovery of these ameboid animals called placozoans and represents the first time in the 21st century that a backbone Linnaean taxonomy is constructed for an entire animal phylum.
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News Update/Commentary
Embryonic origins of adult pluripotent stem cells discovered
December 8, 2022 Science Daily
Researchers have identified the cellular mechanism and molecular trajectory for the formation of adult pluripotent stem cells in the acoel worm, Hofstenia miamia.
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Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics
December 8, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How a cell's mitochondria make their own protein factories
December 8, 2022 Science Daily
The findings shed a rare light on mitoribosomes, the unique ribosomes found within the cell's mitochondria.
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Is It Possible To Prove Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Intelligence Was Required To Create Life?
December 8, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How Birds Evolve review: In-depth and passionate
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
Douglas Futuyma's new book on the rise of birds isn't easy going, but it shows why they were vital to evolutionary theory -- and birders will love it
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The Brain's Claustrum Acts As a Router for Thoughts
December 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Francis Crick thought the claustrum might be the “seat of consciousness,” an inherently materialist concept. The researchers think he was wrong.
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How the Inflation of Journal Citations Impacts Academia
December 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Adjusted for inflation, a citation today is worth about half what it was ten years ago
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Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
December 7, 2022 University of Cambridge
“For the first time we can look directly at the DNA of a past ecosystem that far back in time”
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Meteorites plus gamma rays could have given Earth the building blocks for life
December 7, 2022 American Chemical Society
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Why we’ll never see back to the beginning of the Universe
December 7, 2022 Big Think
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
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2.4 Million-Year-Old DNA Is Oldest Ever Recovered
December 7, 2022 The Scientist
The DNA fragments collected from permafrost in northern Greenland unlock insights into an ancient ecosystem.
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Oldest-ever DNA shows mastodons roamed Greenland 2 million years ago
December 7, 2022 Nature
Genetic material collected from permafrost shows northern part of the island was once a lush forest, home to poplar trees and other surprising organisms.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA
December 7, 2022 Nature, v.612, p.283-291
Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming.
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DNA reveals that mastodons roamed a forested Greenland two million years ago
December 7, 2022 Nature
Ancient environmental DNA from northern Greenland opens a new chapter in genetic research, demonstrating that it is possible to track the ecology and evolution of biological communities two million years ago.
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A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understanding of the cosmos
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
Astronomers have spotted a strange blast of gamma radiation from space that defies categorisation, and it may mean a gap in our understanding of how black holes form
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered review: Hunting human origin stories
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
From a bone fragment of a mysterious new species to the latest on cave art, Paul Pettit's powerful new book shows how science is rewriting the past
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DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland once had spruce forests populated by hares, reindeer and even mastodons
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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already evolutionarily primed to take over the world
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The crust of Mars may be more complicated and “evolved” than we thought
December 7, 2022 ZME Science
Mars' geology isn't quite as funky as Earth's -- but it's not all that plain either.
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News Update/Commentary
New branch on tree of life includes ‘lions of the microbial world'
December 7, 2022 Science Daily
There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death. These microbial predators fall into two groups,
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News Update/Commentary
How do worms develop their gut?
December 7, 2022 Science Daily
How do nematodes distantly related to the best-studied one, Caenorhabditis elegans, make their gut, given that the genes responsible for specifying the gut in C. elegans are absent in other nematodes?
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
December 7, 2022 Science Daily
Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified -- opening a ‘game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA were found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland.
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Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts
December 7, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Your Intelligently Designed Body Is a System of Systems
December 7, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Do Centaurs Really Exist? The Surprising Truth
December 7, 2022 Mind Matters
Well, a half human/half horse cannot literally exist -- but the way horses and humans work together has been called a “miracle”
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Building blocks for life may be able to form in radioactive meteorites
December 7, 2022 New Scientist
Amino acids have been found in meteorites, and now an experiment shows how they might have been created by chemical reactions in these space rocks
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Older than Thought Again: Lizards
December 7, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinism is a worldview that can’t keep its story straight. It keeps shuffling around the pieces on its timeline.