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• News Update/Commentary

  Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere

  August 26, 2021 University of Washington Science Daily

  This would change existing stories of Earth's early atmosphere, which assumed that most changes in the early atmosphere were controlled by geologic or chemical processes.

• News Update/Commentary

  Female hummingbirds avoid harassment by looking as flashy as males

  August 26, 2021 Cell Press Science Daily

  By watching white-necked Jacobin hummingbirds in Panama, researchers discovered that over a quarter of females have the same brightly colored ornamentation as males, which helps them avoid aggressive male behaviors

• News Update/Commentary

  Research reveals how subtle changes in a microRNA may lead to ALS

  August 26, 2021 Salk Institute Science Daily

  Researchers find a tipping point in genetic changes, leading to the development of disease in an animal model

• Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

  August 26, 2021 Neil Thomas Evolution News & Science Today

• Claim: Poll Shows Americans Are More Accepting of Evolution Now

  August 26, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Science Sleuths Catch Authors Using AI Tool for Plagiarism

  August 26, 2021 Mind Matters

  Odd phrases like “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence” began appearing in computer science journals, triggering an investigation

• Video

  Mike Merzenich -- What Are Brains?

  August 26, 2021 Closer To Truth YouTube

  Brains are the fleshy masses of nerve cells and supporting systems in our skulls. All animals have brains of one kind or another. So what are brains? How do they function? How are they structured? How do they compare?

• Ideology Drives Theory at Grand Canyon

  August 26, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Geologists’ open textbook remains an enigma because new ideas must first bow to the consensus chronology

• Spectacular Video on Molecular Machines and Cell Replication

  August 26, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Farewell to Steven Weinberg’s “Purposeless Cosmos” Thesis in the Jerusalem Post

  August 26, 2021 Steve Meyer Uncommon Descent

• Is Einstein still right?

  August 25, 2021 Clifford Martin Will and Nicolás Yunes iai News

  The latest experimental tests of Einstein's theory of gravity

• Why is it so difficult to find a viable quantum theory of gravity?

  August 25, 2021 Anna Demming New Scientist

  The way we calculate the properties of subatomic particles with quantum theory goes haywire when it comes to hypothetical particles of gravity, but there may be a clever workaround

• News Update/Commentary

  New fossil species represents ancient forerunner of most modern reptiles

  August 25, 2021 Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Science Daily

  Taytalura is the first three-dimensionally preserved early lepidosaur fossil that allowed scientists to infer with great confidence it's placement in the evolutionary tree of reptiles

• How Did Dragonflies Come By an Intercept Capability?

  August 25, 2021 Henry Richter Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Dragonflies can track a prey, anticipate its future path, fly to a rendezvous point on that path and intercept it.

• The Return of Teleology to Biology

  August 25, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A new protocetid whale offers clues to biogeography and feeding ecology in early cetacean evolution

  August 25, 2021 Abdullah S. Gohar, et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

  Over about 10 million years, the ancestors of whales transformed from herbivorous, deer-like, terrestrial mammals into carnivorous and fully aquatic cetaceans.

• Walking whale ancestor named after Egyptian god of death

  August 25, 2021 Laura Geggel Live Science

  The semiaquatic whale walked on land and swam in water.

• Australia’s cane toads evolved as cannibals with frightening speed

  August 25, 2021 Max Kozlov Nature

  Study finds that the noxious pests have become so numerous, they’ve developed a taste for each other -- as well as defences to ward off such attacks.

• Is quantum theory really as random as it seems?

  August 25, 2021 Miriam Frankel New Scientist

  The maths suggests the reality we get from quantum probabilities is random, but there might be some hidden determinism at play -- or perhaps the present can influence the past

• Quantum Darwinism: Can evolutionary theory explain objective reality?

  August 25, 2021 Philip Ball New Scientist

  Quantum phenomena “wash out” as particles interact with the environment, but classical properties survive. Are they selected in a process analogous to evolution by natural selection?

• News Update/Commentary

  CT scan of an ancient reptile skull reveals little evolutionary change over 22 million years

  August 25, 2021 Southern Methodist University Science Daily

  3D imaging analysis shows skull is nearly identical to one much older

• Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”

  August 25, 2021 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Science Today

• Plant Roots from 400 Million Years Ago Used a Method That Is Now Extinct

  August 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• “Time To Assume That Health Research Is Fraudulent Until Proven Otherwise?”

  August 25, 2021 Medical Science Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Tetrapods Evolved Legs Very Rapidly

  August 25, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Do Brains Really Evolve? The Horseshoe Crab's Brain Didn't

  August 24, 2021 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  It’s very rare to find an intact fossil brain but a rare combination of minerals preserved one from 310 million years ago

• Epilepsy: If You Follow the Science, Materialism Is Dead

  August 24, 2021 Mind Matters

  Continuing a discussion with Arjuna Das at Theology Unleashed, Dr. Egnor talks about how neurosurgery shows that the mind is not the brain

• ‘Never skip leg day’ -- Tetrapods evolved superfast

  August 24, 2021 Deborah Devis Cosmos Magazine

  Sustained rapid rates of evolution explain how tetrapods evolved from fish.

• The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

  August 24, 2021 Jordana Cepelewicz Quanta Magazine

  Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging.

• The Astrobiological Potential of Rogue Planets

  August 24, 2021 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Air & Space (Smithsonian)

  Not only could they hold subsurface life, they may spread it throughout the galaxy.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolutionary ‘arms race’ may help keep cell division honest

  August 24, 2021 University of Pennsylvania Science Daily

  Certain proteins may have evolved to tamp down ‘cheating' during meiosis, the cell-division process that gives rise to eggs and sperm.

• Neil Thomas: Not at All THAT Sort of Person

  August 24, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today

• Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

  August 24, 2021 Rob Stadler Evolution News & Science Today

• Pluto Is Still Planet in the Eyes of Many

  August 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: “Junk DNA” Plays a Key Role in Speciation

  August 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• News Update/Commentary

  Researcher discovers ‘neck-like’ vertebral motion in fish

  August 24, 2021 University of Liverpool Science Daily

  A researcher has discovered that fish can bend their spines and heads upwards, despite having different anatomy from humans and other land-dwelling vertebrates.

• Is Covid-19 evolving?

  August 24, 2021 Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

  No, but it is changing rapidly

• How Things Have Changed! Even Darwin’s Finches’ Defenders Are Spooked

  August 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Fossil Spores on Land Pushed Back 20 Million Years

  August 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Jerry Coyne vs Ross Douthat on Science-Based Belief in God

  August 24, 2021 Uncommon Descent

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The why, what and how of predicting evolution across biology

  August 24, 2021 Meike T. Wortel, et al. EcoEvoRxiv Preprints

  from disease to biotechnology to biodiversity

• Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods

  August 23, 2021 Tiago R. Simões and Stephanie E. Pierce Nature Ecology & Evolution

  The fish-to-tetrapod transition is one of the most iconic events in vertebrate evolution, yet fundamental questions regarding the dynamics of this transition remain unresolved.

• So-called ‘junk' DNA plays a key role in speciation

  August 23, 2021 Eva Frederick, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research phys.org

• News Update/Commentary

  Delinked? Novel insights into evolutionary link between amphibian and mammalian peptides

  August 23, 2021 Okayama University Science Daily

  Recently, by analyzing certain protein-coding genes that were earlier considered orthologous among frogs and mammals, a team of researchers has unraveled fresh details of vertebrate evolution, giving new insights into the phylogenetic tree.

• News Update/Commentary

  Male Y chromosome facilitates the evolution of sex differences in body size

  August 23, 2021 Uppsala University Science Daily

  Using beetles as a study system, new research shows that despite the Y chromosome containing very few genes, it can dramatically change male body size and thus facilitate the evolution of sex differences.

• Volcanoes acted as a safety valve for Earth's long-term climate

  August 23, 2021 University of Southampton phys.org

• “Minimal metabolism”: A key concept to investigate the origins and nature of biological systems

  August 23, 2021 Nino Lauber, Christoph Flamm, and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo BioEssays

• Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades

  August 23, 2021 Matthew Sparkes New Scientist

• Darwinism Undermines Values

  August 23, 2021 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The Social Darwinists preached a dog-eat-dog society. What are Darwinists preaching today? The same thing.

• End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

  August 23, 2021 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today