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DNA Testing Reveals Baffling Bird Is Three Species in One
November 9, 2018 Gizmodo
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Why Living Organisms Aren't Machines
November 9, 2018 Real Clear Science
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Seeking the Truth When the Consensus Is against You
November 9, 2018 Scientific American
You should always listen to the experts -- except when you shouldn’t
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3-D model of Neanderthal rib cage busts myth of ‘hunched-over cavemen’
November 9, 2018 The Times of Israel
High-tech visualization techniques on Israeli skeleton give new window into lives of our early human cousins, who survived extreme conditions but went extinct some 30,000 years ago
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Ancient DNA reveals complex migrations of the first Americans
November 8, 2018 National Geographic
Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Nature of Programmed Cell Death
November 8, 2018 Biological Theory, v.14, p.30-41
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Scientist gets the dirt on what could be the planet's oldest soil
November 8, 2018 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
Broad genome analysis shows yeasts evolving by subtraction
November 8, 2018 Science Daily
An unprecedented comparison of hundreds of species of yeasts has helped geneticists brew up an expansive picture of their evolution over the last hundreds of millions of years
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Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas
November 8, 2018 Gizmodo
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News Update/Commentary
Culture may explain why brains have become bigger
November 8, 2018 Science Daily
A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the last few million years, according to a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
Orangutans spontaneously bend straight wires into hooks to fish for food
November 8, 2018 Science Daily
Cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists have just studied hook tool making in a non-human primate species -- the orangutan.
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News Update/Commentary
Navigating our thoughts: Fundamental principles of thinking
November 8, 2018 Science Daily
Humans think using their brain's navigation system: Researchers combine individual threads of evidence to form a theory of human thinking.
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How Dad’s Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring
November 8, 2018 Scientific American
Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life
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The hunt for human nature
November 8, 2018 Aeon
We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence
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Cold Slabs Indicate Recent Global Flood
November 8, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Ancient Ape Was Just the Size of a House Cat
November 8, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine
12.5 million-year-old teeth found in Kenya belonged to a species that ate leaves, but was likely outcompeted by an explosion of monkeys
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Theorists Debate How ‘Neutral’ Evolution Really Is
November 8, 2018 Quanta Magazine
For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations over adaptive ones in DNA. Real genomic data challenge that assumption.
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The truth about the Galileo affair
November 8, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Theorists Debate How ‘Neutral’ Evolution Really Is
November 7, 2018 Quanta Magazine
For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations over adaptive ones in DNA. Real genomic data challenge that assumption.
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Earth’s First Amino Acids May Have Come From Oceanic Crust
November 7, 2018 Deep Carbon Observatory
A new study finds that when certain rocks below the seafloor interact with seawater and undergo serpentinization, they can create amino acids.
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This is the world's oldest known work of figurative art
November 7, 2018 CBC (Canada)
Scientists hike for days, climb a mountain and dodge snakes to reach cave with 40,000-year-old painting
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News Update/Commentary
How do babies laugh? Like chimps!
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby.
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News Update/Commentary
Machine-learning algorithm predicts how cells repair broken DNA
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Online tool can help researchers correct pathogenic mutations and restore genes to healthy state
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth's water
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery: Rare three-species hybrid warbler
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have shown that a bird found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and a warbler father from an entirely different genus
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News Update/Commentary
Goffin's cockatoos can create and manipulate novel tools
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Cockatoos adjust length, but not width, when making their cardboard tools
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News Update/Commentary
The teeth of Changchunsaurus: Rare insight into ornithopod dinosaur tooth evolution
November 7, 2018 Science Daily
Unexpected features in this dinosaur's teeth appear to represent early adaptations for herbivory
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Blog Post
Oldest Animal Cave Painting Baffles Evolutionary Anthropologists
November 7, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How did cave art of animals appear on opposite sides of the world at the same time?
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Fossil Grove and other Paleozoic Forests as Allochthonous Flood Deposits
November 7, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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How biologists are creating life-like cells from scratch
November 7, 2018 Nature
Built from the bottom up, synthetic cells and other creations are starting to come together and could soon test the boundaries of life.
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The rocky road to biomolecules
November 7, 2018 Nature
A natural chemical reaction that occurs below the sea floor makes the amino acid tryptophan without biological input. This finding reveals a process that might have helped life on Earth to begin.
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Could Life Be Floating in Venus’s Clouds?
November 7, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
If present, microbes could explain evolving patterns in the planet’s atmosphere when observed in ultraviolet light.
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News Update/Commentary
'Oldest animal painting' discovered in Borneo
November 7, 2018 BBC News
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Blog Post
God of the Gaps: Is there No End to the Foolishness?
November 7, 2018 The Times of Israel
When skeptics and non-believers are confronted with the tsunami-like wave of appearance of design in the so called “simplest” of bacterial cells…
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News Update/Commentary
Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved
November 6, 2018 Science Daily
Study identifies reasons for unsettled editing disagreements and offers predictive tools that could improve deliberation
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News Update/Commentary
Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity
November 6, 2018 Science Daily
Study of huge Ancestry.com pedigree set suggests similar life spans between spouses may have inflated previous estimates of life span heritability
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About Orphan Genes -- What’s the Big Problem for Evolution?
November 6, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Moths survive bat predation through acoustic camouflage fur
November 6, 2018 Science Daily
Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation to hunt their prey. Scientists are studying how moths have evolved passive defenses over millions of years to resist their primary predators.
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Unique Human Neuron Discovered
November 6, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Genetic Engineering: Are We Playing God?
November 6, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Blog Post
To my friend Roger W. Sanders
November 6, 2018 Core Academy of Science
Yesterday, on November 5, 2018, my dear, sweet friend Roger Sanders passed into eternity after suffering briefly with ALS.
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Where Did the Organic Matter on Mars Come From?
November 6, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine (Air & Space)
Biology may not be required to explain the chemicals we see in Martian rocks and meteorites.
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In the Nucleus, Genes’ Activity Might Depend on Their Location
November 6, 2018 Quanta Magazine
Using a new CRISPR-based technique, researchers are examining how the position of DNA within the nucleus affects gene expression and cell function.
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Huge numbers of deformities found in ancient human remains
November 6, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Analysis of late Pleistocene people finds a wide range of bone and dental problems.
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Scientists Resurrect Ancient Versions of Life's Molecular Machinery
November 6, 2018 Inside Science
Heat-tolerant prehistoric enzymes might help produce valuable chemicals and biofuels
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How ideas go viral in academia
November 6, 2018 University of Colorado, Boulder
How ideas move through academia may depend on where those ideas come from -- whether from big-name universities or less prestigious institutions -- as much as their quality,
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Blog Post
Darwin Given Credit for Non-Darwinian Observations
November 5, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinian evolution is one of the most curious scientific theories ever. Even un-Darwinian data can be twisted to support it.
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Why Evolution and Reproduction Are Unnatural
November 5, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nine Years Later, Meyer’s Signature in the Cell Still Stirs Readers’ Praise, Wrath
November 5, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Forgotten Civil Right
November 5, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today