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News Update/Commentary
Scientists quantify the vast and valuable finds stored on museum shelves
September 20, 2018 Science Daily
Quantifying 'dark data' in fossil collections is a call to arms; heralds a digital revolution
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Is It Time to Get Rid of Time?
September 20, 2018 nautil.us
The crisis inside the physics of time.
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News Update/Commentary
Kiwifruit duplicated its vitamin C genes twice, 50 million and 20 million years ago
September 20, 2018 Science Daily
Today's kiwifruit contains about as much vitamin C as an orange -- the result of the kiwifruit's ancestors' spontaneously duplicating their DNA in two separate evolutionary events approximately 50-57 million and 18-20 million years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
September 20, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.
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More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution
September 20, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists
September 20, 2018 Science Daily
Study of fossil bones leads to new conclusions about spine's importance
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Is the Octopus a "Second Genesis of Intelligence"?
September 20, 2018 Mind Matters
Can its strange powers provide insights for robotics or the human mind?
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Maybe iGen Really Is Fragile
September 20, 2018 Mind Matters
Did social media's troll frenzies trigger the campus war on ideas?
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News Update/Commentary
Cholesterol’s molecular fossil identifies Earth’s oldest large animals
September 20, 2018 Chemical & Engineering News
Researchers use chemical analysis to solve one of paleontology’s big mysteries (Dickinsonia)
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World’s first animal was a pancake-shaped prehistoric ocean dweller
September 20, 2018 Nature
Fossils of ancient sea creatures answer a long-standing question about how animals became bigger and more complex.
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Fossilized Lipids Confirm Dickinsonia as One of the Earliest Animals
September 20, 2018 The Scientist
An analysis of organic material from 500-million-year-old fossils upholds the theory that the mysterious creatures were early forms of animal life.
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This Enigmatic Blob Was One of Earth's Earliest Animals
September 20, 2018 National Geographic
The strange life-form has long perplexed scientists. So a team of researchers used modern analyses to take a fresh look at its ancient remains.
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Blog Post
Plants as “revolutionary geniuses”?
September 20, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Did a broken gene improve running and help humans conquer the planet?
September 20, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
The cat is back: Is quantum theory dead, alive, AND contradicting itself?
September 20, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Researchers: Primate relationships more complex than thought
September 20, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Play Favorites with Studying Human Genes. Here’s Why.
September 19, 2018 The Scientist
Despite the Human Genome Project having heralded the exploration of previously unknown human genes, the focus of genetic studies remains narrow.
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Denton’s Children of Light Forthcoming; Join Us at Seattle Book Launch!
September 19, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Oldest-known aquatic reptiles probably spent time on land
September 19, 2018 Science Daily
A comprehensive analysis of Mesosaurus fossils shows that bones from adults share similarities with land-dwelling animals -- suggesting older Mesosaurus were semi-aquatic, whereas the juveniles spent their time in the water.
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Blog Post
Is the Human Body Poorly Designed?
September 19, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
For starters, three claims of poor design in the body are refuted by a college teacher of human anatomy.
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End-Permian extinction, which wiped out most of Earth's species, was instantaneous in geological time
September 19, 2018 phys.org
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A Light and Electron Microscopic Study of the Palo Verde Tree of the Desert Southwest
September 19, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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The mystery of the dinosaur with crocodile jaws, bear claws and a sail
September 19, 2018 New Scientist
No one knows why dinosaurs never conquered the seas. But giant semi-aquatic predator Spinosaurus is revealing some teasing hints
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JAMA Journals Retract Six Papers by Cornell Researcher
September 19, 2018 The Scientist
Problems with Brian Wansink’s research articles surfaced in 2017 and have now resulted in 13 retractions total.
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Blog Post
Researchers: Genes cannot “be read like tea leaves”
September 19, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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J. Scott Turner and the “Giant Crawling Brain”
September 19, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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WSJ publishes Laszlo Bencze’s thoughts on evo psych and who pays on the first date
September 19, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA
September 18, 2018 New Scientist
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Primate Relationships Are Messier Than We Thought, New Research Suggests
September 18, 2018 Gizmodo
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Humanism: neither healthy, nor humane
September 18, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Britain’s National Health Service appoints first humanist head chaplain
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Newspaper Article
Why Your DNA Is Still Uncharted Territory
September 18, 2018 New York Times
Scientists are focusing on a relatively small number of human genes and neglecting thousands of others. The reasons have more to do with professional survival than genetics.
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Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New
September 18, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Reimagining of Schrödinger’s cat breaks quantum mechanics -- and stumps physicists
September 18, 2018 Nature
In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim.
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Blog Post
New goal: 66k animal genomes mapped
September 18, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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How Darwinism played a role in misreading emotions
September 18, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: As soon as macroscopic life evolved, it formed communities
September 18, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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New book: Darwin, unlike some of his followers, was an “evolutionary pluralist”
September 18, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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How the octopus got its smarts
September 17, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Did the octopus evolve its unique intelligence by playing fast and free with the genetic code?
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News Update/Commentary
Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution
September 17, 2018 Science Daily
A new study shows that getting smaller was a key factor contributing to the exceptional evolution of mammals over the last 200 million years.
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News Update/Commentary
How dragonfly wings get their patterns
September 17, 2018 Science Daily
New model sheds light on how nature generates diverse patterns
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Blog Post
Darwinism Makes Human Ancestors Out to Be Morons
September 17, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s impossible to believe our ancestors were as dumb as evolutionists make them out to be. But Darwinians must believe it.
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communities
September 17, 2018 Science Daily
Ediacara biota were forming complex communities tens of millions of years before the Cambrian explosion.
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic mutations thwart scientific efforts to fully predict our future
September 17, 2018 Science Daily
Effects from genetic mutations can vary dramatically from individual to individual
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How Did Life Learn to Breathe?
September 17, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists unravel the conditions under which life evolved to breathe oxygen -- and the findings have some stellar implications.
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How Did Life Learn to Breathe?
September 17, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists unravel the conditions under which life evolved to breathe oxygen -- and the findings have some stellar implications.
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Blog Post
Why computer programs that mimic the human brain will continue to underperform
September 17, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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AAAS to introduce new policy for expelling members
September 17, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Fossil record “dramatically distorted”
September 17, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Plants use flashes of fluorescent light to warn leaves against insects
September 17, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Update on the ASC Model and the One-Way Speed of Light
September 16, 2018 Bible Science Forum