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A mash-up of yeast and E. coli shows how mitochondria might have evolved
November 5, 2018 Science News
Forcing the two organisms to cooperate hints at origins of cells’ energy factories
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Could Neanderthals Speak? The Ongoing Debate Over Neanderthal Language
November 5, 2018 Discover magazine
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Bechly: Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of the Collector’s Curve
November 4, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Can Life Have Meaning in a Random Universe?
November 4, 2018 Psychology Today
Our sense of purpose is not dependent on the universe having a purpose.
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Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
November 3, 2018 Science Alert
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“The Scopes Trial Settled the Question of Evolution”
November 3, 2018 Answers in Genesis
Argument 11
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Blog Post
SETI: A Fact-Free Occult Cult with Money
November 2, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The science behind SETI is just window dressing. Believers obsess on space aliens with religious zeal, not evidence.
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Ants, Wildebeest, Penguins, and More: A Zoo of Animal Designs
November 2, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Little Foot at last?
November 2, 2018 Core Academy of Science
Looks like we'll soon have a good look at Little Foot, the Australopithecus skeleton that Ron Clarke and colleagues have been working on for twenty years.
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News Update/Commentary
How cancer-causing papillomaviruses evolved
November 2, 2018 Science Daily
Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a million years ago
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DNA Project to Decode All Complex Life on Earth
November 2, 2018 Real Clear Science
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Physicists explain how large spherical viruses form
November 2, 2018 University of California, Riverside
study deciphers key elements for the assembly of a large virus; understanding its formation could contain viruses’ spread
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In America’s Science Classrooms, the Creep of Climate Skepticism
November 2, 2018 undark.org
Conservative groups are working hard to challenge the teaching of mainstream climate science in schools. In Florida, they’ve found a winning strategy.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Preservation of feather fibers from the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti raises concern about immunohistochemical analyses on fossils
November 1, 2018 Organic Geochemistry, v.125, p.142-151
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Video
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change
November, 2018 TED talk
talk about it
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Intelligent Design and Common Descent
November 1, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
How chimpanzees reveal the roots of human behaviour
November 1, 2018 BBC
Chimpanzees show empathy and altruism just like humans do -- so could we learn from them?
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Machine learning spots natural selection at work in human genome
November 1, 2018 Nature
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to identify genetic sequences molded by evolutionary pressures.
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How Did Life Recover After Earth’s Worst-Ever Mass Extinction?
November 1, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Ocean animals at the top of the food chain recovered first after a cataclysm at the end of the Permian period. The extinction was triggered by events resembling the changes brewing in today’s oceans.
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News Update/Commentary
Unique immunity genes in one widespread coral species
November 1, 2018 Science Daily
Study may help explain how corals deal with stress under future climate change scenarios
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The Biological Roots of Intelligence
November 1, 2018 The Scientist
Imaging, behavioral, and genetic data yield clues to what’s behind effective thinking.
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Examining Randy Isaac’s Critique of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
October 31, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Separate Studies Converge on Human-Chimp DNA Dissimilarity
October 31, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Baryon Conservation and the Antimatter Mystery
October 31, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Engineered Adaptability: Logic Mechanisms Direct Creatures' Innate Adaptability
October 31, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself
October 31, 2018 New Scientist
How did water survive Earth's searingly hot birth? A radical new answer turns planetary history on its head -- and could revolutionise the search for alien life
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Neanderthals may have breastfed their young for more than two years
October 31, 2018 New Scientist
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Birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for their colourful eggs
October 31, 2018 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict: Humanity is not naturally violent
October 31, 2018 Science Daily
Artificial intelligence can help us to better understand the causes of religious violence and to potentially control it, according to new research.
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News Update/Commentary
Dinosaurs put all colored birds' eggs in one basket, evolutionarily speaking
October 31, 2018 Science Daily
A new study says the colors found in modern birds' eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
A comprehensive 'parts list' of the brain built from its components, the cells
October 31, 2018 Science Daily
In-depth analysis sorts cells from the cerebral cortex into 133 types, lays groundwork to explore function
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Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves
October 31, 2018 ars technica
LIGO responds: "There is absolutely no validity to their claims."
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Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology
October 31, 2018 Market Watch
In tumultuous political times, the 18-30 demographic is reaching for the stars
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Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” -- Wait, What?
October 30, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication
October 30, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Neanderthals may have powered their bigger bodies by breathing deeper
October 30, 2018 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Single protein controls thousands of genes essential for sperm development
October 30, 2018 Science Daily
New regulatory mechanism could underlie male infertility
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News Update/Commentary
How the world's fastest muscle created four unique bird species
October 30, 2018 Science Daily
When the male bearded manakin snaps its wings at lightning speed, it's more than part of an elaborate, acrobatic mating ritual.
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthal ribcage reconstructed, offering new clues to ancient human anatomy
October 30, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have completed the first 3D virtual reconstruction of the ribcage of the most complete Neanderthal skeleton unearthed to date.
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Blog Post
Warmists and Skeptics Should Agree That This is The Real Scandal in Climate Science
October 30, 2018 Coyote Blog
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Comets and Asteroids Bearing Life?
October 30, 2018 San Francisco Gate
we all might be immigrants from deep space, brought to Earth via a mechanism called panspermia
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Peer-reviewed Paper
3D virtual reconstruction of the Kebara 2 Neandertal thorax
October 30, 2018 Nature Communications
The size and shape of the Neandertal thorax has been debated since the first discovery of Neandertal ribs more than 150 years ago
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How is directed evolution changing the world?
October 30, 2018 Chemical & Engineering News
Newly minted Nobelist Frances Arnold talks about the past and future of evolved enzymes
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Sierra Club's Ignorance of Chemistry Reaches New Heights
October 30, 2018 American Council on Science and Health
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Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers
October 30, 2018 The Guardian
A group of scientists has been challenging everything we know about cholesterol, saying we should eat fat and stop taking statins. This is not just bad science -- it will cost lives, say experts
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Richard Dawkins is releasing an atheist children’s book
October 30, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Debate Really Is Good for Science Education
October 29, 2018 Discovery Institute
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Blog Post
Science’s Got Troubles, cont.
October 29, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The “credibility crisis” in science is not solved. It may be getting worse. We continue with more evidence.
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The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution
October 29, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Richard Dawkins as Reluctant Darwinian
October 29, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today