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How Did Consciousness Evolve? An Illustrated Guide
June 24, 2022 The MIT Press Reader
Two leading voices in evolutionary consciousness science explore the subject through words and images.
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News Update/Commentary
The octopus' brain and the human brain share the same ‘jumping genes'
June 24, 2022 Science Daily
A new study has identified an important molecular analogy that could explain the remarkable intelligence of these invertebrates
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Green Darwinism Wilts Under Questioning
June 24, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
When plants first came ashore, they say, the world turned green with trees and flowers. But how? They evolved. They just evolved.
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No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
June 24, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Bottlenecks that reduced genetic diversity were common throughout human history
June 23, 2022 University of California, Berkeley
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Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals
June 23, 2022 Public Library of Science, Genetics
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Gravity Mystery Could Soon Be Solved with Help from This Mind-Bending New Theoretical Model
June 23, 2022 The Debrief
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News Update/Commentary
Many human genomes shaped by past events that caused sharp dips in the population, study finds
June 23, 2022 Science Daily
The genomes of many human populations show evidence of founder events, which occur when a small number of initial members start a new population, and can lead to low genetic diversity
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound organelles
June 23, 2022 Science, v.376, n.6600, p.1453-1458
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Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight
June 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food Without Sunshine
June 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A New Physics Theory of Life
June 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Famed paleontologist Yves Coppens has died
June 22, 2022 CNRS -- French National Center for Scientific Research
The co-discoverer of Lucy, who joined the CNRS in 1956, died this month at the age of 87.
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The “My Train Is Moving Too!" Illusion
June 22, 2022 Mind Matters
Special neurons help us study the motion of others when we are moving too -- but they can sometimes be fooled
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Dead Star’s Cannibalism of Its Planetary System Is Most Far-Reaching Ever Witnessed
June 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
chaos and destruction
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Astronomers Mining an Increasingly Rich Trove of TESS Exoplanet Data
June 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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From Darwinists, A Shift in Tone on Nanomachines
June 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Opinion: The Reproductive Technology Advances No One Asked For
June 22, 2022 The Scientist
Cloning and parthenogenesis of humans wouldn’t align with bioethical principles.
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UK’s earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago
June 22, 2022 New Scientist
Stone tools found in Fordwich in Canterbury may have been made by an early human called Homo heidelbergensis
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Celibacy: its surprising evolutionary advantages -- new research
June 22, 2022 The Conversation
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Life rather than climate influences diversity at scales greater than 40 million years
June 22, 2022 Nature
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Detected: Intelligent Designs in the Amazon Jungle
June 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Extreme temperatures following Earth's greatest mass extinction driven by the loss of siliceous ecosystems
June 21, 2022 Nature Communications
Global climate and biotic recovery in the aftermath of Earth’s most severe mass extinction was sluggish. The decline of silica secreting ecosystems and subsequent increase in marine clay formation contributed to this mysterious climate trend.
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A God beyond logic
June 21, 2022 Aeon
The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways
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Engineer: Failing To See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry"
June 21, 2022 Mind Matters
It’s not different, Lemoine implies, from the historical injustice of denying civil rights to human groups
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Computer Prof: You Are Not Computable and Here's Why Not
June 21, 2022 Mind Matters
In a new book, Baylor University’s Robert J. Marks punctures myths about the superhuman AI that some claim will soon replace us
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Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?
June 21, 2022 The Guardian
Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?
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Feryal Özel on what the first two pictures of black holes tell us
June 21, 2022 New Scientist
Astronomer Feryal Özel is one of the pioneers of black hole photography. With two pictures in the album, she explains what we have learned about these gravitational monsters -- and what comes next
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There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution
June 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
New Book from Computer Engineer
June 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
REVIEW: Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will by Robert J. Marks II (Discovery Institute, 2022) | See Also Discovery Institute
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Mutations Are Not the Main Source of Genetic Variety for Evolution
June 21, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New research study has created more problems for neo-Darwinism
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Traced and the Critics
June 21, 2022 Answers in Genesis
The First (Unplanned) Debate Already Happened
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Italian Center on Intelligent Design Holds Launch Event
June 21, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chinese Fossils Show Human Middle Ear Evolved from Fish Gills
June 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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No Signs (Yet) of Life on Venus
June 20, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Why Science News Sucks -- A Response to a Disgusted Physicist
June 20, 2022 Mind Matters
There are reasons why science journalists can't usually be skeptical in the way that other journalists can. Here are some of them
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Blog Post
Most Journalists are Scientifically Unqualified
June 20, 2022
Why does anyone rely on reporters to interpret scientific articles?
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How humans evolved to get along (to extent that we do)
June 20, 2022 The Harvard Gazette
Research looks at social structures, behaviors of bonobos compared to more hostile, territorial chimpanzees
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Did Carl Sagan Think the Universe Shows No Design?
June 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Like Fred Hoyle, he seems to have thought it showed design -- until that view became politically associated with religion
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Our Blood Could Be Coming from a Previously Unknown Source, Mouse Study Suggests
June 19, 2022 Science Alert
Our bodies are so complicated that even the most vital and well-studied systems are still throwing up surprises.
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Can the Future Reach Back and Affect the Past?
June 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Researchers say that only elementary particles can really time travel but there is another way…
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New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus
June 18, 2022 Mind Matters
The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life.
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Review: Transcendence -- The Soul Meets the Singularity
June 18, 2022 Mind Matters
In Part 1 of my review of the 2014 classic, we start with the question: Can a human mind be completely transferred to a computer?
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ET? China Claims To Have Picked Up Unusual Radio Signals ...
June 18, 2022 Mind Matters
Most expert sources are skeptical that it is ET but the signals are unusual and warrant investigation
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Survey Shows Fewer Americans Believe in God Than Ever Before
June 18, 2022 Daily Wire
A new survey released Friday from Gallup revealed that a record low number of Americans report a belief in God.
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A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues.
June 18, 2022 New York Times
China’s astronomers have been initiated into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the kind of false alarm that others in the field have experienced for decades.
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The universe is surprisingly lopsided and we don't know why
June 18, 2022 New Scientist
Two analyses of a million galaxies show that their distribution may not be symmetrical, which may mean that our understandings of gravity and the early universe are incorrect
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Exodus evidence revisited
June 18, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Blog Post
Why does science news suck so much?
June 18, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Military Cannot Rely on AI for Strategy or Judgment
June 18, 2022 Uncommon Descent