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No, You Do Not Have a Lizard Brain Inside Your Human Brain
March 9, 2021 Mind Matters
The “lizard brain” is part of what science used to know about the brain that ain’t so
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An Emerging Consensus About Neandertal Extinction?
March 9, 2021 Psychology Today
Is this really the way the science works -- we vote?
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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa
March 9, 2021 New Scientist
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Sea Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads and Grow a New Body
March 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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We Are Similar to Ediacaran Animals?
March 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Well, that’s stasis for you!
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Amazing Starling Flight Formation
March 9, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient Earth was a water world
March 9, 2021 Science
Researchers believe land would have been scarce some 3 billion to 4 billion years ago.
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How to become a crab: Phenotypic constraints on a recurring body plan
March 9, 2021 BioEssays
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Why Atheism Is Not Unscientific
March 9, 2021 Real Clear Science
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One of our most basic assumptions about the universe may be wrong
March 9, 2021 New Scientist
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Neanderthal Man: Paleoanthropology Evolving from Racism to Brotherhood
March 9, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Racism everywhere: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens? A new 2021 study proves they were all just different people groups
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News Update/Commentary
Squids: Sophisticated skin
March 8, 2021 Science Daily
Squids' remarkable ability to tune both the color and brightness of their iridescence comes down to a subtle but powerful mechanism.
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What Is Science?
March 8, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Can you “follow” what you can’t define?
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Great Oxidation Myth Unravels, Saved by the Scenario
March 8, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinians never give up a useful myth. When it falls apart, they patch it up with imagination.
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News Update/Commentary
Research shows we're surprisingly similar to Earth's first animals
March 8, 2021 Science Daily
Today's humans share genes with ancient oceanic creatures missing heads
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News Update/Commentary
Rise of marine predators reshaped ocean life as dramatically as sudden mass extinctions
March 8, 2021 Science Daily
Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on scales similar to the mass extinctions triggered by global disasters, a new study shows.
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News Update/Commentary
‘Pompeii of prehistoric plants' unlocks evolutionary secret
March 8, 2021 Science Daily
Spectacular fossil plants preserved within a volcanic ash fall in China have shed light on an evolutionary race 300 million years ago, which was eventually won by the seed-bearing plants that dominate so much of the Earth today.
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Cuttlefish Can Delay Gratification, Suggesting Smarts Like Chimpanzees and Crows
March 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Surface Bubbles Could Have Somehow Become Earth’s First Cells
March 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
Hey, James Tour will LOVE this -- um, not!
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Tom Bethell (1936–2021), Remembered by His Editors
March 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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This Time, Human Evolution Was Shaped by a Quest for Tasty Food
March 8, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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How Kurt Gödel Destroyed a Popular Form of Atheism
March 7, 2021 Mind Matters
We don’t hear much about logical positivism now but it was very fashionable in the early twentieth century
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Tom Bethell, RIP
March 7, 2021 The American Spectator
Remembering the journalist and long-time American Spectator columnist, who died last month.
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How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution
March 7, 2021 The Guardian
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What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?
March 7, 2021 The Guardian
Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson has spent decades talking to people about near-death experiences. His work raises questions about what happens when we die, and how we ought to choose to live.
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Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust
March 7, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Cornelius Hunter Now Has a YouTube Channel, Darwin’s God
March 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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At The Conversation: Can the Laws of Physics Disprove God?
March 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Eric Metaxas Interviews Stephen Meyer on His New Book
March 7, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Gregory Chaitin's “Almost" Meeting with Kurt Gödel
March 6, 2021 Mind Matters
This hard-to-find anecdote gives some sense of the encouraging but eccentric math genius
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Slime Mold: An Earthbound “Alien" That Thinks Without a Brain
March 6, 2021 Mind Matters
Researchers are beginning to learn just how giant molds can remember things without a nervous system. What, exactly, is doing the computations?
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Homo sapiens: the water-saving ape
March 6, 2021 Cosmos Magazine
Humans evolved to run on less water than primate relatives.
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News Update/Commentary
Study reveals how egg cells get so big
March 6, 2021 Science Daily
Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell
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Could Earth Be in Quarantine from Space Aliens?
March 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder Asks, Do Complex Numbers Exist?
March 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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C. elegans (Roundworm) Perceives Color Without Eyes
March 6, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Gregory Chaitin on the Great Mathematicians, East and West
March 5, 2021 Mind Matters
Himself a “game-changer” in mathematics, Chaitin muses on what made the great thinkers stand out
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Octopuses Not Only Feel Pain Physically, But Emotionally Too, First Study Finds
March 5, 2021 Science Alert
An important new study suggests octopuses are likely to feel and respond to pain in a similar way to mammals -- the first strong evidence for this capacity in any invertebrate.
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Cuttlefish Delay Gratification, a Sign of Smarts
March 5, 2021 The Scientist
The cephalopods resisted temptation for up to 130 seconds to earn their favorite food, hinting at sophisticated cognitive abilities such as planning for the future.
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How Some Bacteria Have Achieved “Immortality”
March 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Did a Magnetic Field Reversal Doom the Neanderthals?
March 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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We Can Now Add Some Sharks to the List of Bioluminescent Animals
March 5, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Academic Article Correcting Misconceptions about Evolution Promotes Misconceptions about ID
March 4, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Was the Golden Rule Born in the Mind of a Monkey?
March 4, 2021 nautil.us
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Surface Bubbles Could Have Evolved into Earth's First Cells
March 4, 2021 Inside Science
Artificial “protocells" suggest the complex biochemical mechanisms used by living cells could have originated in simple bubbles.
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No Evidence T. rex Hatchlings Had Feathers
March 4, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Eyeless C. elegans Perceives Colors: Study
March 4, 2021 The Scientist
The roundworm uses cues from visible light to help avoid eating toxic bacteria with a distinguishing hue.
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‘Gravity portals' could morph dark matter into ordinary matter, astrophysicists propose
March 4, 2021 Live Science
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Big Bangers Are Making Things Up
March 4, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If you thought Darwinists were the storytellers while physicists do hard science, look at this.
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News Update/Commentary
Factoring in gravitomagnetism could do away with dark matter
March 4, 2021 Science Daily
Models of galactic rotation curves built of a general relativistic framework could use gravitomagnetism to explain the effects of dark matter