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Cognitive Scientist: Earliest Humans, Home erectus, Had Language
May 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Homo erectus needed a language to enable such remarkable achievements over 100,000 years ago
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One Skeptic's Journey Back to Christianity
May 15, 2021 YouTube
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Darwin’s Garden
May 15, 2021 Answers in Genesis
How Darwinian evolution inspired new forms of racism in Western civilization, resulting in untold human suffering and destruction
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Platypus Origins: The Mystery Deepens
May 15, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A review of the New Scientist article, “The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins”
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New cyanobacteria species spotlights early life
May 15, 2021 Science Daily
Anthocerotibacter panamensis, a newly discovered species of cyanobacteria, can help researchers study the dawn of oxygenic photosynthesis
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Some Features of Bird Brains Are Remarkably Similar to Those of Mammal Brains
May 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Could Humans Have Contaminated Mars with Life?
May 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
worry of the month
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Were There Cephalopods in the Cambrian Era?
May 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Try To Understand How One-Celled Life Forms Learn
May 14, 2021 Mind Matters
Artificial intelligence may offer a model for learning without a brain
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Will AI Change -- or Eliminate -- the Mind-Body Problem?
May 14, 2021 Mind Matters
Can an artificial intelligence program that calculates really understand mathematics? Or is that a “hard ceiling” for AI?
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Herbivores developed powerful jaws to digest tougher plants after the mass extinctions
May 14, 2021 Science Daily
The evolution of herbivores is linked to the plants that survived and adapted after the ‘great dying', when over 90% of the world's species were wiped out 252 million years ago.
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Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System
May 14, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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China Lands Rover on Mars To Look for Water, Life
May 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Earth's oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
May 14, 2021 Science Daily
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the planet hospitable to life
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Did Earth’s Early Rise in Oxygen Support the Evolution of Multicellular Life -- or Suppress It?
May 14, 2021 Georgia Institute of Technology
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Paralyzed Man Writes, Using Only Imagination -- and an Algorithm
May 13, 2021 Mind Matters
With implanted electrodes, the volunteer, 65, achieved 90 characters per minute
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Fossilized tracks show earliest known evidence of mammals at the seashore
May 13, 2021 University of Utah
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Was the Coronavirus Intelligently Designed?
May 13, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A major controversy is arising in scientific communities about which is the correct origin story for SARS-CoV-2.
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Is the Bible's Definition of Faith Opposed to Logic and Evidence?
May 13, 2021 Wintery Knight
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58-million-year-old footprints show when mammals began paddling in sea
May 13, 2021 New Scientist
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Songbird neurons for advanced cognition mirror the physiology of mammalian counterparts
May 13, 2021 Science Daily
Neuroscientists examining genetically identified neurons in a songbird's forebrain discovered a remarkable landscape of physiology, auditory coding and network roles that mirrored those in the brains of mammals.
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Ankle and foot bone evolution gave prehistoric mammals a leg up
May 13, 2021 Science Daily
The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.
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A new approach to identify genetic boundaries of species could also impact policy
May 13, 2021 Science Daily
Evolutionary biologists model the process of speciation, which follows population formation, improving on current species delineation methods
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Ridiculous Science News -- Before We Get Started on the Real Stuff
May 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Axe: Why Darwinists Hope You Don’t Know Math
May 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Historian Offers Some Thoughts on the Drive to Deplatform Darwin
May 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Claim (Sort of) That Carb-Heavy Diet Fueled Neanderthal Brain Growth
May 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Science Writer John Horgan on Why the Multiverse Is a Fantasy
May 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Don’t be tricked!
May 13, 2021 Creation Ministries International
John Walton and Genesis scholarship
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Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?
May 13, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Challenge of Complex Adaptation for Evolution
May 13, 2021 YouTube
Molecular biologist Douglas Axe explains the challenging problem of complex adaptation for evolution. According to Axe, complex adaptation is a problem
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How Would Angus Menuge Resolve the Mind-Body Problem?
May 12, 2021 Mind Matters
From his background in computer science, he sees mind–body interaction as a transmission of information between two realms
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Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes
May 12, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Transcription factors that act throughout the genome can arise from mashups of transposable elements inserted into established genes.
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Scientists decode the ‘language’ of immune cells
May 12, 2021 University of California, Los Angeles
The advance, researchers say, is like the discovery of the Rosetta stone and could eventually lead to new treatments for diseases
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Is everything predetermined? Why physicists are reviving a taboo idea
May 12, 2021 New Scientist
Superdeterminism makes sense of the quantum world by suggesting it is not as random as it seems, but critics say it undermines the whole premise of science. Does the idea deserve its terrible reputation?
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Larry Moran’s New Book Sounds Like a Scorcher
May 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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“Professor Dave” Goes after Eminent Chemist James Tour
May 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree
May 12, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Francis Bacon and the alleged conflict between science and the Bible
May 11, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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The seduction of the multiverse
May 11, 2021 iai news
Why the multiverse is fantasy
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Meyer: When Stephen Hawking Spoke “From Beyond the Grave”
May 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Researchers Make a Trillion Aluminum Atoms Behave As Single Wave
May 11, 2021 Mind Matters
Such demonstrations show that quantum computers, which could solve much bigger problems much faster, are viable
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A Multipurpose Gene Facilitates the Evolution of an Animal Weapon
May 11, 2021 The Scientist
A single gene called BMP11 regulates not only the size and proportions of a water strider’s massively long third legs, but also how it uses the limbs in fights.
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Sex cells in parasites are doing their own thing
May 11, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce sex cells.
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Dinoflagellate Genome Structure Is Unique
May 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Study: Animals Do Not Usually Try To Avoid Mating with Their Own Kin
May 11, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Cephalopods Join the Cambrian Explosion? And Other Topics in ID
May 11, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Holy Water: Miracle Accounts and Proxy Data Tell a Climate Story
May 10, 2021 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
In 6th century Italy, saints were said to perform an unusual number of water miracles. Paleoclimatological data from a stalagmite may reveal why.
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Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?
May 10, 2021 BBC
Humanity has sent around 30 spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Now, we know which microbes might have survived the trip
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Turns out developing a taste for carbs wasn't a bad thing
May 10, 2021 Science Daily
Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, health