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News Update/Commentary
Genome duplication drives evolution of species
September 25, 2018 Science Daily
Polyploid plants have a duplicate set of chromosomes. As a result, large-scale genetic changes are therefore possible in the new species, making it more adaptable in comparison with the parental species, as has now been demonstrated by researchers
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News Update/Commentary
Some female termites can reproduce without males
September 25, 2018 Science Daily
Populations of the termite species Glyptotermes nakajimai can form successful, reproducing colonies in absence of males, according to a new study.
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Machines Really Can Learn!
September 25, 2018 Mind Matters
A computer scientist responds to my parable
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Book
Replacing Darwin on the Debate Stage: A Report on an Unusual, but Promising, Beginning for a Provocative Book
September 25, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Is the Septuagint a superior text for the Genesis genealogies?
September 25, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution
September 25, 2018 BBC News
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Genetic determinism rides again
September 25, 2018 Nature
questioning a psychologist’s troubling claims about genes and behaviour
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New Exoplanet Telescope Detects Its First Two Planets
September 25, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The two possible planets, each larger than Earth and too hot to be habitable, are the first of hundreds of Earth-sized exoplanets expected to be discovered by a recently launched telescope.
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Blog Post
World’s simplest animals as different from each other as humans and mice
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: How we know the 558 mya animal Dickinsonia remains really contained fats
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Jerry Coyne continues to be unhappy over David Quammen’s book on Carl Woese
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Neutron scattering to help with study of cell membranes
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Computer engineer Eric Holloway: Artificial intelligence is impossible
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Jeffrey Shallit takes on Mike Egnor: Machines really CAN learn!
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Is the octopus a “second genesis of intelligence”?
September 25, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Using Non-Evolution to Preach Evolution
September 24, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinists are adept and commandeering evidence contrary to their theory to make it look like support for their theory.
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News Update/Commentary
Birds' voiceboxes are odd ducks
September 24, 2018 Science Daily
Nothing has a voicebox quite like a bird's, but cats, mice, and crocs show some similarities
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News Update/Commentary
Evidence that addictive behaviors have strong links with ancient retroviral infection
September 24, 2018 Science Daily
New research shows that an ancient retrovirus -- HK2 -- is more frequently found in drug addicts and thus is significantly associated with addiction.
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News Update/Commentary
How fruits got their eye-catching colors
September 24, 2018 Science Daily
New evidence supports the idea that plants owe their rainbow of fruit colors to the different animals that eat them. Researchers first had to get past the fact that most animals don't see colors quite the way humans do.
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News Update/Commentary
DNA islands effective as 'anti-bacterial drones'
September 24, 2018 Science Daily
Genomic 'islands' that evolved from viruses can be converted into 'drones' that disable Staphylococcus aureus, bacteria that are often resistant to antibiotics, a new study finds.
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News Update/Commentary
Burst of morning gene activity tells plants when to flower
September 24, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that the gene FT -- the primary driver of the transition to flowering in plants each spring -- does something unexpected in Arabidopsis thaliana plants grown in natural environments
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Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution
September 24, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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So Lifelike ...
September 24, 2018 Mind Matters
Another firm caught using humans to fake AI
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How Well Can the Webb Telescope Detect Signs of Exoplanet Life?
September 24, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Recent research suggests that NASA’s next-generation space telescope will be good -- but not the best -- at finding life-sustaining levels of oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.
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4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Offer Clues to the Origins of Life
September 24, 2018 National Geographic
Unlike diamonds, zircons are forever. These crystalline time capsules can give us a window into the life-sparking conditions of early Earth.
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Blog Post
Hawking temperature of black holes measured in fluid analogue
September 24, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
September 24, 2018 The Atlantic
The fall of a prominent behavioral scientist tells of a system where research is judged not on merit, but on the attention it gets.
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Principia
September 24, 2018 Aeon
Is it possible that, in the new millennium, the mathematical method is no longer fundamental to philosophy?
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For great Italian geology, go to church
September 24, 2018 American Geophysical Union
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Are atheists less tolerant than others?
September 24, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Darwin’s vigilantes: Fred Reed on why Darwinism persists
September 24, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Is there an atheist value system, at odds with traditional ones?
September 24, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Evolutionary psychologist slams the fine-tuning of the universe
September 24, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design
September 23, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does Digitization Threaten Science?
September 23, 2018 Mind Matters
It enables new abuses, according to a Cambridge nanoscientist
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RadioLab distorts some science
September 23, 2018 Why Evolution Is True
There’s been a lot of publicity about David Quammen’s new book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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Early Sun's 'Goldilocks' Rotation Rate May Be Why We're Here
September 23, 2018 Forbes
Our early Sun’s rate of rotation may be one reason we’re here to talk about it, astrobiologists now say.
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At the Guardian: Why are UFO sightings on the decline?
September 23, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Britain appoints first Humanist as head chaplain
September 23, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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J. P. Moreland’s new book on scientism is out
September 23, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Are people today more religious than in the past?
September 23, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Fat Chance: Evolutionists Push Date of Soft Tissue Back 558 Million Years
September 22, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The latest find of original molecules in a fossil should falsify long ages, but the discoverers use it to celebrate Darwinian evolution.
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“Mutations Drive Evolution.” -- Argument 10
September 22, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Still More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution
September 21, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution
September 21, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: “Bad Design” Arguments Don’t Work
September 21, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Apes Can Be Generous
September 21, 2018 Mind Matters
Are they just like humans then?
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5 Myths about Science
September 21, 2018 Crossway
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What Darwin Didn't Know About Evolution
September 21, 2018 National Geographic
New aspects of evolution have come to light with the introduction of advanced technologies that didn't exist during Darwin's era.
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News Update/Commentary
The way hunter-gatherers share food shows how cooperation evolved
September 21, 2018 Science News
As the Hadza move between camps, group rules trump individual selfishness or generosity