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How planets form controls elements essential for life
May 10, 2021 phys.org
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Consensus Gives Us Information Only If We Are Free to Doubt
May 10, 2021 Mind Matters
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DNA’s Histone Spools Hint at How Complex Cells Evolved
May 10, 2021 Quanta Magazine
New work shows that histones, long treated as boring spools for DNA, sit at the center of the origin story of eukaryotes and continue to play important roles in evolution and disease.
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Control Loops in Humans and Nature
May 10, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021)
May 10, 2021 Nature
Polymath of cellular evolution who shaped understanding of the tree of life.
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Dinoflagellate Genome Structure Unlike Any Other Known
May 10, 2021 The Scientist
The transcription of DNA drives the remarkably tidy organization of chromosomes in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium microadriaticum.
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Complex Design Seen in Human Skin
May 10, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Skin: an organ once thought to be simple is now shown to be far more complex; two new discoveries illustrate intelligent design
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São Tomé island has two species of caecilians found nowhere else on Earth
May 10, 2021 Science Daily
Research adds evidence to century-long scientific debate and reveals how volcanic activity may have driven divergence of the limbless amphibians
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News Update/Commentary
Reaching your life goals as a single-celled organism
May 10, 2021 Science Daily
How is it possible to move in the desired direction without a brain or nervous system? Single-celled organisms apparently manage this feat without any problems: for example, they can swim towards food with the help of small flagellar tails.
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News Update/Commentary
How planets form controls elements essential for life
May 10, 2021 Science Daily
Rice scientists attribute Earth's nitrogen to rapid growth of moon- to Mars-sized bodies
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Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess
May 10, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Richard Dawkins Goes After People with Down Syndrome … Again
May 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Ethan Siegel Asks Why So Few Challenge The Big Bang
May 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Why “Follow the Science” Is Showing Its Age As a Slogan
May 10, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How a Materialist Philosopher Argued His Way to Panpsychism
May 9, 2021 Mind Matters
Galen Strawson starts with the one fact of which we are most certain -- our own consciousness
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Why Do Some Famous Materialist Scientists Hate Philosophy?
May 9, 2021 Mind Matters
Philosopher of biology Massimo Pigliucci takes Richard Dawkins to task for dismissing philosophy but he might have said the same of Stephen Hawking
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‘Extraordinary Discovery': Archaeologists Find Neanderthal Remains in Cave Near Rome
May 9, 2021 National Public Radio
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Darwin Ruled “Problematic” Figure Due to Racism
May 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Most Human Origin Stories Incompatible with the Fossils?
May 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome
May 8, 2021 The Guardian
Italian archaeologists believe most of Neanderthals were killed by hyenas then dragged back to den
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News Update/Commentary
The legume family tree
May 8, 2021 Science Daily
Massive molecular study uncovers clues to the evolution and diversification of essential plant family
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There Is No Escape from Human Exceptionalism
May 8, 2021 Mind Matters
Author Melanie Challenger thinks we should embrace our true animal nature. But that’s impossible
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No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry
May 8, 2021 cnet.com
Despite what you might have read, the claims about life on Mars are shoddy and unscientific.
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“Anti-Hagiography”: A Critical Look at Stephen Hawking
May 8, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Giraffe Genome Points to Maybe Four Species But It Is “Not Evolutionary”
May 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Forget What You Thought You Knew About Eukaryote Evolution…
May 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution
May 7, 2021 Science
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Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies
May 7, 2021 New Scientist
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Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
May 7, 2021 Science Daily
New genetic analyses of cichlids in Lake Victoria highlight several candidate genes that may drive adaptive radiation and provide evidence for decisive selective events that cause particular genetic variants to quickly gain dominance within populations.
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Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary
May 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Return of the God Hypothesis
May 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
BioLogos Hosts Stephen Meyer for a Podcast Discussion
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Response to James Tour: 700 Papers and Still Clueless
May 7, 2021 YouTube
Last year I made a video about James Tour, a chemist and creationist who speaks out against origin of life research. He didn't like it much, so he decided to make a 14-part series about how dumb I am. He really pulled out all the stops,
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Improbable Rafting Is Central to Darwinism
May 7, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary theory requires rare improbable events, but stuff happens in millions of years, they say.
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Researchers Ponder Why Animals Adopt Other Species' Orphans
May 7, 2021 Mind Matters
Beliefs about what animals “should do” are often hampered by a lack of common sense reasoning and an outdated evolution theory
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Researchers: The Last Bacterial Common Ancestor Had a Flagellum
May 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At Gizmodo, of All Places: A Convergent Evolution Slide Show
May 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Do We Know We Are Not Just Physical Bodies?
May 6, 2021 Mind Matters
The mind-body problem is one of the most difficult issues in modern philosophy
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Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?
May 6, 2021 Forbes
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Plants Help Each Other. Are They Self-Aware? Can They Suffer?
May 6, 2021 Mind Matters
Recent discoveries that plants can do many things that we used to think only animals could do raise some interesting questions
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Is there a pattern to the universe?
May 6, 2021 space.com
Astronomers are getting some answers to an age-old question.
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Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
May 6, 2021 EurekAlert!
Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor
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Whole-Genome Data Point to Four Species of Giraffe
May 6, 2021 The Scientist
The genome sequences of 51 giraffes from all over Africa contribute to the latest attempt in an ongoing pursuit to pin down a species number.
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Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA
May 6, 2021 Science
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The cerebellum may have played an important role in the evolution of the human brain
May 6, 2021 Science Daily
Study compares epigenetic modifications to DNA in the cerebellum of humans, chimpanzees and monkeys
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Engineers and biologists join forces to reveal how seals evolved to swim
May 6, 2021 Science Daily
Seals and sea lions are fast swimming ocean predators that use their flippers to literally fly through the water. But not all seals are the same: some swim with their front flippers while others propel themselves with their back feet.
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Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a map
May 6, 2021 Science Daily
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields
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Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?
May 6, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Bats Are Born Knowing How To Measure Speed in Time, Not Distance
May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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According to Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, The Universe Has Never Truly Been Empty
May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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National Academy of Sciences Attempts To Grapple with “Misinformation” and “Disinformation”
May 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent