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Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought
March 6, 2019 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Elegant interplay of coloration strategies is discovered in squid's smart skin
March 6, 2019 Science Daily
In the blink of an eye, the squid's skin changes color and pattern for the purpose of camouflage or sexual signaling, a virtuosic display that has long fascinated scientists.
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Scientists Still Stumped by the Evolution of Human Breasts
March 6, 2019 Discover magazine
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Brain Wars: Return of the Sex Deniers
March 5, 2019 American Council on Science and Health
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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious
March 5, 2019 nautil.us
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Do antidepressants work?
March 5, 2019 Aeon
Depression is a very complex disorder and we simply have no good evidence that antidepressants help sufferers to improve
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic 'usual suspects' identified in researchers' new list
March 5, 2019 Science Daily
After analyzing tens of thousands of data samples, researchers have created a list of genes that ranks them based on how frequently they are implicated in specific diseases.
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News Update/Commentary
Australian dingo is a unique Australian species in its own right
March 5, 2019 Science Daily
Since the arrival of British settlers over 230 years ago, most Australians have assumed dingoes are a breed of wild dog.
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Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
March 5, 2019 Scientific American
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique
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Biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation
March 5, 2019 Science Daily
Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescales
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A Debate in California; A Piece of Business
March 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rare Earth Elements and Intelligent Design
March 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Debate in California; a Piece of Business
March 5, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved
March 5, 2019 New Scientist
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Two genomes can be better than one for evolutionary adaptation, study finds
March 4, 2019 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
When it comes to hearing words, it's a division of labor between our brain's two hemispheres
March 4, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have uncovered a new 'division of labor' between our brain's two hemispheres in how we comprehend the words and other sounds we hear
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Did a Fish Just Show Self-Awareness?
March 4, 2019 Mind Matters
What if the whole question is founded on a mistake about the nature of the mirror test?
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How Did We Miss This? An Upper Atmospheric Discovery Named STEVE
March 4, 2019 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Captured unknowingly by scientific instruments for years, a sky phenomenon is finally brought to the attention of researchers by eagle-eyed citizen scientists.
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The Real Reason Why Only Human Beings Speak
March 4, 2019 Mind Matters
Language is a tool for abstract thinking -- a necessary tool for abstraction -- and humans are the only animals who think abstractly
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In South Dakota, More Groundless Alarm about Academic Freedom
March 4, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How new species arise in the sea
March 4, 2019 Science Daily
Study sheds new light on a fundamental question in evolutionary biology
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic factors influence human brain expansion
March 4, 2019 Science Daily
Results provide new insight into evolution and development of the human brain
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The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson
March 4, 2019 Quanta Magazine
No new particles have been found at the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs boson in 2012, but physicists say there’s much we can still learn from the Higgs itself.
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Brain Surface Area Reveals Overlap in Genes, Intelligence, Evolution
March 4, 2019 The Scientist
An analysis of the contours of more than 600 kids’ brains points to links between cerebral surface area and heritability in regions of the brain important in cognition.
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Blog Post
Fun: Scooby Doo and the Silly Skeptics
March 3, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Complex Life Might Require a Very Narrow Habitable Zone
March 3, 2019 Universe Today
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How To Tell If Scientists Are Bluffing
March 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Theorizing Information Out of a Black Hole
March 2, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life
March 2, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking
March 2, 2019 The Spectator
Pseudoscience is on the rise -- and the media is completely hooked
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Lies, Damned Lies, and STEM Statistics
March 2, 2019 Quillette
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Neutral Theory of Evolution Debunked
March 2, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Elaborating on Michael Behe’s refutation of “neutral evolution”
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Where Are All the 'Sparticles' That Could Explain What's Wrong with the Universe?
March 1, 2019 Live Science
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What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective
March 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millennia
March 1, 2019 Scientific American
Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, one of the founders of evolutionary medicine, explains why natural selection did not rid our species of onerous psychiatric disorders
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Are We Headed for a New Era of Malaria Drug Resistance?
March 1, 2019 The Scientist
Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.
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Magazine Article
A Journey Into the Animal Mind
March 1, 2019 The Atlantic
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world
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A Bombshell for Replacing Darwin?
March 1, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Recent Studies of Cosmological (Cosmic?) Importance
March 1, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Cells use sugars to communicate at the molecular level
March 1, 2019 Science Daily
Research reveals how cells communicate at the molecular level. They found that sugar molecules play a key role in cellular communication, serving as the 'channels' that cells and proteins use to talk to one another.
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Listen: Behe, McDiarmid Continue a Discussion of the Lents Review
March 1, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
March 1, 2019 The Atlantic
REVIEW: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham, Pantheon
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Venus Flytrap: How an Excitable, Carnivorous Plant Works
March 1, 2019 Trends in Plant Science
Best known from the animal kingdom, carnivory in the green branch of the tree of life at a first glance seems to be a peculiar trait. Thanks to recent advances, we now know that plant carnivory evolved at least six times independently.
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Humans Made Tools Atop the Tibetan Plateau More than 30,000 Years Ago
March 1, 2019 The Scientist
A finding pushes back the timeline on humankind’s conquest of one of Earth’s harshest environments, and may provide clues about interactions with their hominin relatives.
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Book
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
March, 2019 Penguin (Random House)
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First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
March 1, 2019 sapiens
Fragments of a hominin skull add to the sparse collection from our obscure cousins.
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Do Humans and Chimps Share a Common Ancestor?
March 1, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Sentience and Consciousness in Single Cells
March, 2019 BioEssays, v.41, n.3
How the First Minds Emerged in Unicellular Species
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Does the Toast Model Explain Fossil Protein Persistence?
February 28, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Big Changes in Science Publishing Underway
February 28, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
People are so used to peer-reviewed scientific journals behind paywalls, it’s hard to think of any other way. Till now.