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News Update/Commentary
Monstrous galaxy from dawn of the universe accidentally discovered
October 22, 2019 Science Daily
The early universe is filled with monsters, a new study revealed. Researchers discovered a previously invisible galaxy, and perhaps a new galaxy population waiting to be discovered.
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News Update/Commentary
New species take longer to arise in the Amazon
October 22, 2019 Science Daily
Amazonia is home to the greatest number of species on earth, many now threatened, but a new study hammers home Amazonia's importance, showing that it is not only a place with many species,
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News Update/Commentary
Embryonic development: Earlier origin of neural crest cells
October 22, 2019 Science Daily
Research could aid regenerative stem cell therapies
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News Update/Commentary
Crabs can solve and remember their way around a maze
October 22, 2019 Science Daily
A new study has revealed how common shore crabs can navigate their way around a complex maze and can even remember the route in order to find food.
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News Update/Commentary
Are humans changing animal genetic diversity worldwide?
October 22, 2019 Science Daily
The loss of genetic diversity will hinder the ability of plant and animal populations to adapt to changing environments
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At The Atlantic: Textbook Evolution Story Is Said To Be WRONG
October 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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David Baddiel on God, gags and being trolled -- ‘It hurts and then I think: material!'
October 22, 2019 The Guardian
The comedian has written his first play -- on whether science can prove that the Almighty exists. But first, there are some hecklers to deal with ...
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Did the Mega Dinosaurs Grow So Big on a “Living Fossil” Grass?
October 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Aye-Aye Turns Out to Be a “Six-Fingered” Primate
October 22, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification
October 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the Butterfly Discovered Daylight
October 21, 2019 New York Times
Nocturnal moths evolved into daytime butterflies not to escape bats, as biologists once thought, but to enjoy an abundant new drink: the nectar of flowering plants.
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash
October 21, 2019 New York Times
The Chicxulub event was as damaging to life in the oceans as it was to creatures on land, a study shows.
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Stephen Meyer Gets Animated in New PragerU Video
October 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art
October 21, 2019 Journal of Human Evolution
Keywords -- Paleolithic cave art; Uranium-thorium dating; Open system; Age overestimation; Neanderthal art
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A Single-Couple Human Origin is Possible
October 21, 2019 BIO-Complexity 2019 (1): 1-20
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Video
Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven
October 21, 2019 YouTube
For a century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity. But science never stops asking questions. Or at least it’s not supposed to. Stephen Meyer at the Discovery Institute takes up the challenge
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Is this “one of the worst scientific scandals of all time”?
October 21, 2019 Cosmos Magazine
Hans Eysenck comes under fire -- again.
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A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong
October 21, 2019 The Atlantic
For 50 years, researchers have thought that moths evolved ears to detect the ultrasonic calls of attacking bats -- but a new study shows that ears came first.
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Neanderthal ‘glue' points to complex thinking
October 21, 2019 BBC News
Traces of ancient “glue" on a stone tool from 50,000 years ago points to complex thinking by Neanderthals, experts say.
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Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators
October 21, 2019 New Scientist
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The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics
October 21, 2019 Nature
Researchers are finding links between people’s genes and complex attributes such as socio-economic status and the time spent in school. The worry is that their results will be misconstrued.
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News Update/Commentary
Gimme six! Researchers discover aye-aye's extra finger
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
The world's weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a tiny extra digit. Aye-ayes possess small ‘pseudothumbs' that may help them grip objects and branches as they move through trees.
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News Update/Commentary
Catastrophic events carry forests of trees thousands of miles to a burial at sea
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
While studying sediments in the Bay of Bengal, an international team finds evidence dating back millions of years that catastrophic events likely toppled fresh trees from their mountain homes on a long journey to the deep sea.
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News Update/Commentary
Listening in to how proteins talk and learning their language
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
Machine learning accelerates the design of synthetic proteins with desired functions, facilitating future therapeutic, diagnostic and biotechnology applications
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News Update/Commentary
Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old street in Jerusalem built by Pontius Pilate
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
An ancient walkway most likely used by pilgrims as they made their way to worship at the Temple Mount has been uncovered in the ‘City of David' in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.
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News Update/Commentary
Butterflies and plants evolved in sync, but moth ‘ears' predated bats
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
The findings show flowering plants did drive much of these insects' diversity, but in a surprise twist, multiple moth lineages evolved ‘ears' millions of years before the existence of bats, previously credited with triggering moths' development of hearing
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News Update/Commentary
How the mouse X and Y chromosomes compete with each other to control offspring
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
New research presents the first demonstration of a specific difference in sperm function associated with sex ratio skewing.
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News Update/Commentary
The night gardeners: Immune cells rewire, repair brain while we sleep
October 21, 2019 Science Daily
New research shows for the first time that important immune cells called microglia -- which play an important role in reorganizing the connections between nerve cells, fighting infections, and repairing damage -- are also primarily active while we sleep.
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New Bio-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come From Two
October 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals
October 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can a Novelist Help Scientists Write Better Papers?
October 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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PragerU’s New Vid Explains Science-Based Doubts About Evolution
October 21, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Atheists Call for Establishing Atheism as the National Religion
October 20, 2019 American Thinker
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Consciousness Is Not Computable
October 20, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A key principle of materialism and physicalism is that all processes must be reducible to matter and energy.
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Listen: Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism
October 20, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Asked Seriously: What If Plants Are Smarter Than We Think?
October 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Hossenfelder, Did You Know That, for Some, the Search for Dark Matter Is an Act of Faith?
October 20, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Intolerance in Academia
October 19, 2019 Daily Wire
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There Are Two Hard Problems of Consciousness, Not One
October 19, 2019 Psychology Today
The hard problem of consciousness consists of two separate problems.
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Peppered Moths . . . Evidence for Evolution?
October 19, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Would a Simulated Universe Even Make Sense?
October 19, 2019 Mind Matters
A well-crafted short sci-fi film suggests, intentionally or otherwise, maybe not
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Is a Brain Really Needed for Thinking?
October 19, 2019 Mind Matters
The “blob,” now on display at the Paris Zoo, forces the question
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The Dead Leaf Butterfly Is Making the Rounds Again
October 19, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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“Evolution” Says: We Are Alone
October 19, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rare Insight into Trilobite Behavior 480 Mya
October 19, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Do you believe in rectangles?
October 18, 2019 Physics Today
An editor looks at history to explain why that’s not a silly question.
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Evolution tells us we might be the only intelligent life in the universe
October 18, 2019 The Conversation
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Sequences of African Genomes Highlights Long-Overlooked Diversity
October 18, 2019 The Scientist
An analysis of more than 400 human genomes from residents of 13 African countries presented at this week’s annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics greatly expands our species’ cataloged genetic diversity.
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Russian ‘CRISPR-baby’ scientist has started editing genes in human eggs with goal of altering deaf gene
October 18, 2019 Nature
Denis Rebrikov also told Nature that he does not plan to implant gene-edited embryos until he gets regulatory approval.
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Lee Berger’s New Hominid Is a Non-Starter
October 18, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Yet another new discovery shakes up the human family tree