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• Narwhal -- Unicorn of the Sea

  December 16, 2018 Joe Francis Answers in Genesis

  The narwhal’s unusual tusk clearly didn’t grow by accident -- but what is it there for?

• Blog Post

  New Utopian Vision Requires Drastic Demotion of Humans

  December 16, 2018 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Humans must be re-imagined, then re-made to fit the new global utopia, according to an environmental evolutionist.

• Watch: Mouse Embryo Development -- Axe: “Appreciate It in Silence”

  December 15, 2018 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Geneticists make new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined

  December 15, 2018 University of Melbourne Science Daily

  Medical researchers have made a new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined: it's not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves a 'regulator' that increases or decreases the activity of genes which decide if we become male or female.

• Book

  Charles Darwin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

  December 15, 2018 J. David Archibald Rowman & Littlefield

  an important new compendium presenting a detailed chronology of all aspects of Darwin’s life

• Journals Retract 13 Papers from Heart Stem Cell Lab

  December 14, 2018 Kerry Grens The Scientist

  It’s the latest fallout from an investigation by Harvard and Brigham and Women’s into work overseen by Piero Anversa.

• We Still Don’t Know Why the Reign of the Dinosaurs Ended

  December 14, 2018 Brian Switek Smithsonian Magazine

  The asteroid strike on the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago is only part of the story

• Blog Post

  Slimy Evolution Reporting Continues

  December 14, 2018 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Darwin gets credit for more things than his theory deserves, which is very little to begin with.

• Gecko, Fairyfly, Manta Ray: Animals Push the Limits of the Possible

  December 14, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today

• Meyer, Axe: “Five Major Problems with Macro-Evolution”

  December 14, 2018 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Mammalian keratin genes and adaptation to living on land or sea

  December 14, 2018 Molecular Biology and Evolution (Oxford University Press) Science Daily

  Scientists have performed one of the largest comparative genomic studies to help determine the key molecular and evolutionary origins of mammalian adaptations seen in skin proteins.

• Computing the origin of life

  December 14, 2018 Keith Cooper phys.org

• Computing the Origin of Life

  December 13, 2018 Keith Cooper Astrobiology magazine

• Little Foot update

  December 13, 2018 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

• Ebola-fighting protein discovered in human cells

  December 13, 2018 Northwestern University

  Drug that mimics function of protein could one day become an effective therapy to fight Ebola virus

• How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus

  December 13, 2018 Leora Smith ProPublica

  From his basement in upstate New York, Herbert MacDonell launched modern bloodstain-pattern analysis, persuading judge after judge of its reliability. Then he trained hundreds of others. But what if they’re getting it wrong?

• Newspaper Article

  Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us

  December 13, 2018 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  Two genes inherited from our evolutionary cousins may affect skull shape and brain size even today. What that means for human behavior is a mystery.

• Apollo 8 and Intelligent Design, Then and Now

  December 13, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today

• Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers

  December 13, 2018 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

  December 13, 2018 Geological Society of America Science Daily

  Our understanding of when the very first animals started living on land is helped by identifying trace fossils -- the tracks and trails left by ancient animals -- in sedimentary rocks that were deposited on the continents.

• News Update/Commentary

  Noncoding mutations contribute to autism risk

  December 13, 2018 Simons Foundation Science Daily

  A whole-genome sequencing study of nearly 2,000 families has implicated mutations in 'promoter regions' of the genome -- regions that precede the start of a gene -- in autism.

• News Update/Commentary

  Septin proteins act as cellular police to identify, imprison and kill 'superbug' Shigella

  December 13, 2018 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Science Daily

  Ground-breaking discovery reveals new clues to stop the spread of deadly infections

• News Update/Commentary

  To repair DNA damage, plants need good contractors

  December 13, 2018 Salk Institute Science Daily

  Scientists reveal a complex network of genes that helps plants cope with DNA damage

• News Update/Commentary

  Tale of two trees: New web tool estimates gene trees with ease

  December 13, 2018 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Science Daily

  Scientists introduce ORTHOSCOPE, a new web-based tool capable of inferring gene function, estimating gene trees and identifying sets of ancestral genes in just minutes.

• News Update/Commentary

  New techniques better determine how ancient viral DNA influences human genes

  December 13, 2018 NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine Science Daily

  New laboratory techniques can identify which of our genes are influenced by DNA snippets that are left behind in our genetic code by viruses.

• News Update/Commentary

  Neanderthal genes give clues to human brain evolution

  December 13, 2018 Cell Press Science Daily

  Researchers report that present-day humans who carry particular Neanderthal DNA fragments have heads that are slightly less rounded, revealing genetic clues to the evolution of modern brain shape and function.

• Can Genes Predict Which Birds Can Learn to Talk?

  December 13, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

• Opinion: The Central Dogma of Mitochondrial Genetics Needs Rewriting

  December 12, 2018 John D. Loike The Scientist

  The recent discovery of 17 people who have inherited maternal and paternal lines of mitochondrial DNA has major ramifications for medical and ancestry research.

• A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test

  December 12, 2018 Elizabeth Preston Quanta Magazine

  A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality.

• Martian methane -- spotted in 2004 -- has mysteriously vanished

  December 12, 2018 Paul Voosen Science

• Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for palaeontology

  December 12, 2018 Julien Benoit The Conversation

• Debate ethics of embryo models from stem cells

  December 12, 2018 Nicolas Rivron, et al. Nature

  International discussion must guide research, urge Nicolas Rivron, Martin Pera and colleagues.

• Baby gene edits could affect a range of traits

  December 12, 2018 David Cyranoski Nature

  Gene targeted for its role in HIV is linked to increased severity of other infectious diseases -- and has implications for learning in mice.

• Why the Conclusion that Life Is Designed Really Is Inescapable

  December 12, 2018 Douglas Axe Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Biologists shed new light on an old question

  December 12, 2018 Uppsala University Science Daily

  For nearly 100 years biologists have argued about how exactly natural selection can possibly work. If nature selects the individuals with the best genes then why aren't all organisms the same?

• News Update/Commentary

  Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms

  December 12, 2018 Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences Science Daily

  Why did the first big, complex organisms spring to life in deep, dark oceans where food was scarce? A new study finds great depths provided a stable, life-sustaining refuge from wild temperature swings in the shallows.

• News Update/Commentary

  First-ever look at complete skeleton of Thylacoleo, Australia's extinct 'marsupial lion'

  December 12, 2018 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  New fossil finds provide insight into biology and behavior of this ancient apex predator

• Extinct Megatoothed Shark May Have Been Warm-Blooded

  December 11, 2018 Kimberly M. S. Cartier Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Preliminary results from a recent study may begin to shed light on why megalodons died out before the most recent ice age.

• God, Unicorns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster

  December 11, 2018 Scott Youngren God Evidence

• Gene editing babies? A dangerous, pointless experiment

  December 11, 2018 Lita Cosner and Robert Carter Creation Ministries International

• What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

  December 11, 2018 Jonathan Lambert Quanta Magazine

  Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.

• These ‘useless’ quirks of evolution are actually evidence for the theory

  December 11, 2018 Ben Garrod The Conversation

• Blog Post

  Cosmologists Cling to Ghosts

  December 11, 2018 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Dark matter has never been found, but their pet theory needs it. What will secular cosmologists do next?

• Blog Post

  Earth’s Magnetic Field Decaying at an Alarming Rate

  December 11, 2018 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The biosphere depends on earth’s magnetic field, but it has been decaying rapidly for at least 1500 years.

• J.P. Moreland: Comparing Scientific to Moral Knowledge

  December 11, 2018 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• For Transhumanists, a Dawning Realization

  December 11, 2018 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Did supernovae kill off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene?

  December 11, 2018 University of Kansas Science Daily

  The effects of a supernova -- and possibly more than one -- on large ocean life like school-bus-sized Megalodon 2.6 million years ago are detailed in a new article.

• Neanderthals Likely Ate Rotten Meat

  December 10, 2018 Jenessa Duncombe Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union

  Neanderthals have long been painted as meat-eating machines. But could a new look at a dietary proxy and how it changes when meat rots uncover insights into what these extinct hominids really ate?

• Indian Academics Confront the Threat of Nationalistic Pseudoscience

  December 10, 2018 Ruchi Kumar undark.org

  Advocates for scientific rationalism in India are pushing back against a wave of conspiracies and superstitions being promoted as legitimate science.

• Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

  December 10, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today