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Çatalhöyük, a window on life 9,500 years ago
October 9, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Reproductive Longevity Predicts Mutation Rates in Primates
October 8, 2018 Current Biology, v.28. n.19, p.3193-3197
The mutation rate observed in owl monkeys is 30% lower than that observed in apes.
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The 8-dimensional space that must be searched for alien life
October 8, 2018 MIT Technology Review
A new mathematical model suggests that signs of extraterrestrial intelligence could be common, for all we know -- we’ve barely begun investigating the vastness where they might lie.
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Stars in their eyes
October 8, 2018 Chemistry World
Meet the astrochemists exploring our universe through the Earth’s most powerful radio telescopes
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Intelligent Design Wins Another Nobel Prize
October 8, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
There's a better way to decipher DNA's epigenetic code to identify disease
October 8, 2018 Science Daily
A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving the way for better detection of cancer and other diseases in the blood.
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News Update/Commentary
Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharks
October 8, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have decoded the whole genomes of two shark species for the first time and improved the whale shark genome sequences released previously.
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News Update/Commentary
Genes responsible for difference in flower color of snapdragons identified
October 8, 2018 Science Daily
Two colors of snapdragons separated by sweeps and barriers
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Offbeat tales from the science vs. religion market: Fake Islamic science miniatures
October 8, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers claim to have discovered genes re the “meaning of life”
October 8, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Fewer galaxies have formed since the Big Bang than should have
October 8, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?
October 7, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Devolution of Social Science
October 7, 2018 Quillette
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A homicide detective looks at ID and God’s crime scene
October 7, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Are there not enough “anti-evolution” biologists?
October 7, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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One Nobel Reason for Believing that Artificial Selection is more Powerful than Natural Selection
October 7, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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J. P. Moreland on claims we know better than we know science truths
October 7, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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J.R. Miller on Darwinism, racism, and human zoos
October 7, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists condemn professor's 'morally reprehensible' talk
October 6, 2018 BBC news
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Do these skulls prove common ancestry between apes and humans?
October 6, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Today’s feedback is from David B. who wrote in to us about transitional forms and human evolution.
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How Darwin Storytelling Permeates Society
October 6, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Everywhere you go, you get Darwin Just-So Stories. You can’t travel or read the newspaper without them.
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The Case of Tim Peake Shows the Perils of “Awe”
October 6, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Michael Egnor: Is free will a dangerous myth?
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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From Barren Planet to Civilization in Four Easy Steps
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Evolution is “under attack” again -- in a neuroscientist’s imagination
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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At Forbes: The real reason we haven’t found dark matter
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Why genetic determinism can’t simply be disproven
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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SETI finds more creative ways to keep looking
October 6, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
One small step: A review of Plio-Pleistocene hominin foot evolution
October 5, 2018 American Journal of Physical Anthropology, v.168, n.S67, p.63-140
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A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought
October 5, 2018 knowable magazine
The thalamus has traditionally been viewed just as the brain’s sensory relay station. But it may also play an important role in higher-level cognition, MIT’s Michael Halassa explains in a Q&A.
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What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
October 5, 2018 The Atlantic
Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.
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This Is The Real Reason We Haven't Directly Detected Dark Matter
October 5, 2018 Forbes
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A Genius Academic Hoax Exposed That Liberal Arts Colleges Don't Care About Truth
October 5, 2018 Newsweek
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The Origin of Life Circus Adds Old and New Acts
October 5, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New and old miracle acts for the origin of life are added continually, to see if people will keep coming with money.
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News Update/Commentary
Living organisms find a critical balance
October 5, 2018 Science Daily
Interdisciplinary study finds cell networks seek optimal point between stability and adaptiveness
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News Update/Commentary
Protein dynamics: Molecular machines at work
October 5, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have used a special fluorescence-based imaging technique to track the shape changes that occur when pore proteins in the cell membrane export molecules into the extracellular medium.
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Rob Sheldon: What if the “building blocks from space” are really degraded life?
October 5, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Matti Leisola on evolution and the recent Nobel Chemistry prize
October 5, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Bone tools from Africa dated to 90,000 years ago
October 5, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Who Built AI? You did, mostly!
October 5, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Evolution Under Attack
October 4, 2018 neurologica blog
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Neanderthal healthcare practices crucial to survival
October 4, 2018 University of York
New research has suggested that Neanderthals embraced healthcare practices, such as assisting in cases of serious injury and the challenges of childbirth.
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News Update/Commentary
Viruses influenced gene sharing between Neanderthals and humans
October 4, 2018 Science Daily
Human evolution used to be depicted as a straight line, gradually progressing from an ape-like ancestor to modern Homo sapiens. But thanks to next-generation sequencing, findings in recent years have shown that it wasn't quite so orderly.
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Are Liquid Crystals Responsible for the Origins of Life on Earth?
October 4, 2018 Discover magazine
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Liquid crystals of RNA could explain how life started on Earth
October 4, 2018 Astronomy magazine
Your computer monitor, television, or cell phone might hold the key to the origin of life.
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Neanderthal Genes Likely Helped Homo sapiens Resist Illness
October 4, 2018 The Scientist
Modern humans retain DNA sequences from Neanderthals related to fighting off RNA-based viruses.
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You say theoretical physicists are doing their job all wrong. Don’t you doubt yourself?
October 4, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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News Update/Commentary
Malaria parasites adapt to mosquito feeding times, study shows
October 4, 2018 Science Daily
Malaria parasites have evolved to be most infectious at the time of day when mosquitoes feed, to maximize their chances of being spread.
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News Update/Commentary
Observations challenge cosmological theories
October 4, 2018 Science Daily
Study examines how well current measurements match the predictions of the standard model of cosmology
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News Update/Commentary
Common genetic toolkit shapes horns in scarab beetles
October 4, 2018 Science Daily
Rhinoceros beetles and dung beetles use the same genes to form their elaborate horns