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News Update/Commentary
Researchers unravel mechanisms that control cell size
May 17, 2019 Science Daily
Team of biologists, engineers and physicists uncover origins of precise cellular reproduction
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch
May 17, 2019 Science Daily
New discoveries at the Klasies River Cave in South Africa provide the first archaeological evidence that anatomically modern humans were roasting and eating plant starches as early as 120,000 years ago.
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So It’s Come to This: Turmoil Over What Genes Really Do
May 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Theoretical Physicist Reassures Public, They’re Not Just Making It Up
May 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Darwinian Jerry Coyne Vents His Spleen at Darwin-Doubting Yale Computer Scientist
May 17, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Two threats to U.S. science
May 17, 2019 Science, v.364, n.6441, p.613
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Marcos Eberlin: Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Intelligent Design
May 17, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Artificial life form given ‘synthetic DNA'
May 16, 2019 BBC
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Science would be well advised to avoid picking fights with religion
May 16, 2019 The Irish TImes
Promoting science to replace religion often has the opposite effect, and scientists would be well-advised to stop picking futile fights
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News Update/Commentary
How we make complex decisions
May 16, 2019 Science Daily
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that helps break decisions down into smaller pieces
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Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will
May 16, 2019 nautil.us
You make choices even if your atoms don’t.
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Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA
May 16, 2019 (The Guardian)
The lab-made microbe, a strain of bacteria that is normally found in soil and the human gut, is similar to its natural cousins but survives on a smaller set of genetic instructions.
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“Conservative” news site publishes pro-evolution misinformation piece
May 16, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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Big Bang Hubble Contradiction Confirmed
May 16, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Key step in cell protein production
May 16, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered how genes create proteins in research which could aid the development of treatments for human diseases.
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News Update/Commentary
Bedbugs evolved more than 100 million years ago
May 16, 2019 Science Daily
Bedbugs -- some of the most unwanted human bed-mates -- have been parasitic companions with other species aside from humans for more than 100 million years, walking the earth at the same time as dinosaurs.
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Talk About Stasis! Bedbugs Are 100 Million Years Old
May 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Tooth Studies Show That Neanderthals “Split” from Modern Humans 800 Kya, Not 300-500 Kya
May 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Purebred Dogs Are Not “Biological Species”
May 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Amber -- A Moment in Time 100 Mya
May 16, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
May 15, 2019 Quanta Magazine
For more than six decades, the influential biologist Edward O. Wilson has drawn connections between evolution, ecology and behavior, often sparking controversies inside and outside of science.
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Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?
May 15, 2019 New Scientist
Efforts to group us by our genes are arbitrary and encourage the subtle return of race within mainstream science
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Axions may or may not exist -- but we're not just making things up
May 15, 2019 New Scientist
Are we just making things up? ... Everything theoretical physicists do is speculative, and likely wrong, except for the things we get right
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Blog Post
Unusual Fossils Call for Unusual Explanations
May 15, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Some recent fossil finds require creative storytelling, but the science is the data -- not the story.
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An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight
May 15, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Logic & First Principles, 20: What Is Law?
May 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder: “We Know That Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong.”
May 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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At Nature: Carl Woese’s Archaea Are “Shaking Up the Tree of Life”
May 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Disproof of God’s Existence
May 15, 2019 Skeptic
British philosopher avers that it is wrong to say that God is by definition all powerful; he is only powerful within the limits of his nature.
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Neanderthals and Modern Humans Diverged Earlier than Thought: Study
May 15, 2019 The Scientist
Fossil records show that the most recent shared ancestor with modern humans may have lived at least 800,000 years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago, research on teeth shows
May 15, 2019 Science Daily
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago, substantially earlier than indicated by most DNA-based estimates, according to new research.
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News Update/Commentary
Captive chimpanzees spontaneously use tools to excavate underground food
May 15, 2019 Science Daily
Chimpanzees in captivity can successfully work out how to use tools to excavate underground food, even if they've never been presented with an underground food scenario before, according to a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
Dolphin ancestor's hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today's sea creatures
May 15, 2019 Science Daily
CT scan of 30-million-year-old fossil indicates echolocation evolved more than once
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Historian: Evolution Means That Human Equality Is a Myth
May 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Ernst Haeckel Studied Sponges to Demonstrate “A Universe Devoid of Supernatural Beings or Purpose”
May 15, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The destructive role of Trofim Lysenko in Russian Science
May 14, 2019 European Journal of Human Genetics, v.27, p.1324-1325
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Tooth Fossils Fill 6-Million-Year-Old Gap in Primate Evolution
May 14, 2019 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV geoscientist, student among international research team behind discovery of ancient monkey species that lived in Africa 22 million years ago.
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The trickster microbes that are shaking up the tree of life
May 14, 2019 Nature
Mysterious groups of archaea -- named after Loki and other Norse myths -- are stirring debate about the origin of complex creatures, including humans.
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Blog Post
Quantum Mechanics is wrong. There, I’ve said it.
May 14, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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News Update/Commentary
First birds: Archaeopteryx gets company
May 14, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers describe a hitherto unknown bird from the late Jurassic period. It is the second bird capable of flight, after the famous Archaeopteryx, to be identified from this era.
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A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence
May 14, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Science Philosopher Attempts to Repair Split Between Science and Philosophy
May 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Déjà Vu at National Review
May 14, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Bill Nye As “A Terrible Spokesman for Science”
May 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The “Fearing Evolution” Trope
May 14, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Future of Particle Physics Discussed in Granada
May 13, 2019 science2.0
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The Denisovan Mandible and Human Diversity
May 13, 2019 Core Academy of Science
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Conservatives Shouldn’t Fear Evolutionary Theory
May 13, 2019 National Review
It is a crowning achievement of Western civilization and a rejoinder to the modern myths of the Left.
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Catapulting spider winds up web to launch itself at prey: study
May 13, 2019 phys.org
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Coastal organisms trapped in 99-million-year-old amber
May 13, 2019 EurekAlert!