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News Update/Commentary
Scientists repeat century-old study to reveal evidence of evolutionary rescue in the wild
October 1, 2020 Science Daily
Repeating a study conducted in 1914, scientists have shown that species may be able to evolve and adapt to rapid climate change.
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Book
The Miracle of the Cell
October, 2020 Amazon
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Why we're in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens
September 30, 2020 New Scientist
Hints of bacteria on Venus are encouraging, but finding life beyond Earth is the easy part. A new analysis suggests the evolution of human-like intelligence on another planet is more improbable than we like to imagine
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The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers
September 30, 2020 New Scientist
The world's fresh waters used to teem with enormous fish. Their numbers are dwindling, but it is not too late to save the river monsters from extinction
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The Mesopotamian Deluge Accounts: Neither History Nor Revelation
September 30, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Conservative unease with science is global, but extreme in the US
September 30, 2020 ars technica
A new Pew project looks at the perception of scientists in 20 countries.
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Lemurs with Brains 1/200 the Size of Chimps' Pass Same IQ Test
September 30, 2020 Mind Matters
This new finding about mouse lemurs also makes human exceptionalism more exceptional
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News Update/Commentary
Rodent ancestors combined portions of blood and venom genes to make pheromones
September 30, 2020 Science Daily
Over 100 genomes searched to find origin of pheromone gene family
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Why Something Instead of Nothing? November 19, Oxford’s John Lennox Goes “Against the Tide”
September 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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At Real Clear Science: Replace Juries with Scientists!
September 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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(Reformed) New Scientist 5: Species Don’t Really EXIST?
September 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Stellar explosion in Earth's proximity, eons ago
September 30, 2020 Science Daily
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years ago
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Algorithm discovers how six simple molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks
September 30, 2020 Chemistry World
Program shows how micelles, catalysts and self-replicating chemical systems emerge from abiotic precursors
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The Human Error Darwin Inspired
September 30, 2020 nautil.us
How the demotion of Homo sapiens led to environmental destruction.
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Nearly blind mole rats use their eyes to detect magnetic fields
September 30, 2020 New Scientist
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Why we're in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens
September 30, 2020 New Scientist
Hints of bacteria on Venus are encouraging, but finding life beyond Earth is the easy part. A new analysis suggests the evolution of human-like intelligence on another planet is more improbable than we like to imagine
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Juries' Scientific Guesswork Has No Place in Courts
September 30, 2020 Real Clear Science
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Evolutionary and ontogenetic changes of the anatomical organization and modularity in the skull of archosaurs
September 30, 2020 Scientific Reports, v.10
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Why Mosquitoes Attack: Mystery Solved
September 30, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Why Does Science Embrace the “Talking Animals" Myth?
September 29, 2020 Mind Matters
Many birds are quite smart but why do some researchers imply that they think like people?
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New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized
September 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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(Reformed) New Scientist 4: There Is More to Inheritance Than Just Genes
September 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Book by Classical Philosopher of Design in Nature Is Now Available after 200 Years
September 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Lack of evidence for plasticity-led evolution in lizards
September 29, 2020 Science Daily
Recent findings suggest the repeated evolution of similar traits in island lizards was not channelled by developmental responses to the environment, as commonly thought
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Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings from the Big Bang
September 29, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from the birth of the universe.
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Why Are Scientists So Cruel to New Ideas?
September 29, 2020 Forbes
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News Update/Commentary
Genomes of two millipede species shed light on their evolution, development and physiology
September 29, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have sequenced and analyzed complete genomes from two very different millipede species. The study provides important insights into arthropod evolution, and highlights the genetic underpinnings of unique features of millipede physiology.
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Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study
September 29, 2020 Big Think
Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
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Thomas Reid -- Recovering Another ID Ancestor
September 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known
September 28, 2020 Science Daily
Discovery may indicate modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the area concurrently
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Denton “Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level”
September 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Study traces the evolution of gill covers
September 28, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have identified a key modification to the genome that led to the evolution of gill covers more than 430 million years ago.
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Naked Prehistoric Monsters!
September 28, 2020 University of Portsmouth
Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted
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Wokeness Comes for Dawkins
September 28, 2020 The American Conservative
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Was a Franken-Fish “Created”?
September 28, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years
September 28, 2020 Science Daily
A new study has identified four new species of parasitic, cockroach-killing ensign wasps that became encased in tree resin 25 million years ago and were preserved as the resin fossilized into amber.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolutionary and heritable axes shape our brain
September 28, 2020 Science Daily
Every region has its place in the brain. However, it has been unclear why brain regions are located where they are. Now, scientists have defined two main axes along which brain regions are genetically organized
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New Edition of Inference Review Features Richard Buggs, James Shapiro, and Larry Krauss
September 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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John D. Barrow (1952–2020)
September 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Richard Dawkins Is Getting Canceled Again
September 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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How Does Science Really Work?
September 28, 2020 New Yorker
Science is objective. Scientists are not. Can an “iron rule" explain how they've changed the world anyway?
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On the Origins of Life
September 28, 2020 Inference Review, v.5, n.3
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News Update/Commentary
Complex interplay among cells guides them to where they need to go
September 28, 2020 Science Daily
Many cells in our bodies are on the move and somehow seem to “know" where to go. But how do they learn the location of their destination? This question is key to understanding phenomena such as the renewal of cells in our body,
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Newton, The Last Magician
September 28, 2020 iai news
On the nature of Newton's apple
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Believers in God Detect Patterns More Easily
September 27, 2020 Mind Matters
Psychologists found that both devout Christians and Muslims unconsciously detected patterns in a test more quickly
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Christian Scientific Society’s Upcoming Online Seminar: “Is the Natural World Good or Bad?”
September 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Video
Evidence for God's Existence Apart from the Bible
September 27, 2020 YouTube
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Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion
September 26, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Elon Musk Tweet Shows Why Many Doubt Origin of Life Studies
September 26, 2020 Mind Matters
Musk was talking about the origin of machines, not life, but the principle is, perhaps surprisingly, the same
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The “Synergistic Core" of the Human Brain?
September 26, 2020 Discover magazine
Are synergistic interactions the fundamental drivers of complex cognition?