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• Blog Post

  Do Big Brains Matter to Human Intelligence?

  August 24, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  We don’t know. Brain research readily dissolves into confusion at that point

• Exaptation Shows That Evolution Is Not Intelligent

  August 23, 2018 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

• The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains

  August 23, 2018 Cathleen O'Grady ars technica

  There’s a lot to know about primate brains -- in fact, we’ve barely scratched the surface.

• Earth's Magnetic Field Can Reverse Poles Ridiculously Quickly, Study Suggests

  August 23, 2018 Brandon Specktor Live Science

• Neanderthals and Denisovans mated, new hybrid bone reveals

  August 23, 2018 Charles Q. Choi Fox News (Live Science)

• Scientists Have Uncovered the 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid of Two Extinct Human Species

  August 23, 2018 Caroline Redmond All That's Interesting

  The bone came from an ancient girl who was believed to be around 13-years-old when she died -- approximately 90,000 years ago.

• Ancient Girl's Parents Were Two Different Human Species

  August 23, 2018 Maya Wei-Haas National Geographic

  Born 90,000 years ago, the child is the first direct evidence of interbreeding among Neanderthals and their cousins the Denisovans.

• Meet Denisova 11: First Known Hybrid Hominin

  August 23, 2018 Meilan Solly Smithsonian Magazine

  The 13-year-old girl’s mother was a Neanderthal while her father was a Denisovan

• Geneticists Studying Ancient DNA Discovered a Girl Whose Parents Were Two Different Species

  August, 2018 Suzi Marsh Boredom Therapy

• Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think

  August 23, 2018 Peter Ward nautil.us

  A primer on the epigenome.

• A challenge to Darwin’s branching view of evolution

  August 23, 2018 Jerry A. Coyne Washington Post

• The unexpected upside of E. coli

  August 22, 2018 Lisa Marshall University of Colorado, Boulder

• Laughing Gas May Have Helped Warm Early Earth and Given Breath to Life

  August 22, 2018 Ben Brumfield Georgia Institute of Technology

• Is Solid Land Necessary for Biology?

  August 22, 2018 Dirk Schulze-Makuch Air & Space (Smithsonian)

  And if life could arise on an ocean world, how far could it evolve?

• DNA shows girl had one Neanderthal, one Denisovan parent

  August 22, 2018 John Timmer ars technica

  She's the first-generation offspring of a mating between two types of archaic humans.

• Richard Dawkins, 77, hopes his new atheism book for children will stop the 'religious indoctrination of youngsters' by schools and family members

  August 22, 2018 Alisha Rouse Daily Mail

• A Preliminary Cephalopod Baraminology Study Based on the Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes and Morphological Characteristics

  August 22, 2018 Jean O’Micks Answers in Genesis

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

  August 22, 2018 Viviane Slon, et al. Nature, v.561

  Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. Here we present the genome of ‘Denisova 11’, a bone fragment from Denisova Cave (Russia)

• The Girl from Denisova Cave

  August 22, 2018 Todd Charles Wood Core Academy of Science

  Neandertal Mother & Denisovan Father

• Don’t believe the mice

  August 22, 2018 Anthony King Cosmos magazine

  Experiments using mice are often heavily publicised -- but very, very few of them translate into humans. Report on why animal models are of questionable value.

• Newspaper Article

  A Blended Family: Her Mother Was Neanderthal, Her Father Something Else Entirely

  August 22, 2018 Carl Zimmer New York Times

  Genetic analysis of bones discovered in a Siberian cave hints that the prehistoric world may have been filled with “hybrid” humans.

• Newspaper Article

  We Are Not Born Human

  August 22, 2018 Bernard-Henri Lévy New York Times

  Our humanity is a process that begins with negation.

• Blog Post

  Hell Is a "Parasocial" Place

  August 22, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Where your "friends" may not even exist

• Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of universal rebirth

  August 21, 2018 Sabine Hossenfelder backreaction.blogspot

• Creationism and Conspiracy Theories Arise From an Error in Thinking

  August 21, 2018 Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science

• Why it’s only science that can answer all the big questions

  August 21, 2018 Peter Atkins Aeon

• Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly

  August 21, 2018 Sean Pitman Detecting Design

• Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly

  August 21, 2018 Sean Pitman Detecting Design

• News Update/Commentary

  Water ice 'detected on Moon's surface'

  August 21, 2018 Paul Rincon BBC News

• Ice found on moon surface, raising prospect of lunar colony

  August 20, 2018 Ian Sample The Guardian

  Patches of frost around moon’s north and south poles could provide a source of water for humans, say astronomers

• Reports of Homo erectus' laziness are 'moronic'

  August 20, 2018 Anna Brooks Popular Science

  What bad headlines call lazy is what early humans called survival.

• Human and reptile brains aren’t so different after all

  August 20, 2018 James R. Howe VI Massive Science

  Reports of our brains’ differences seem greatly exaggerated, according to recent neuroscience

• Ancestor of all life on Earth evolved earlier than we thought, according to our new timescale

  August 20, 2018 Holly Betts The Conversation

• Alive and ticking

  August 20, 2018 Jessica Riskin Aeon

  The idea that nature is a humming, complex, clockwork machine has been around for centuries. Is it due for a revival?

• 30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber

  August 20, 2018 Jessica Stewart My Modern Met

• Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?

  August 20, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology

• Blog Post

  Sometimes the "Bots Turn Out to Be Humans

  August 20, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  That “lifelike” effect was easier to come by than some might think

• Blog Post

  Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?

  August 20, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology

• Intelligent design? How come He made so many blunders?

  August 19, 2018 Robin McKie The Guardian

  Whatever Tim Peake thinks, human bodies are so flawed we’re lucky to be here at all

• Blog Post

  Science’s Bullying Problem

  August 19, 2018 Neuroskeptic Discover magazine

• The Earth Invented Nuclear Reactors Before We Did

  August 17, 2018 Science Friday

  the Oklo natural nuclear reactor

• Early Development of the Fruit Fly as Evidence of Design

  August 17, 2018 Ross Anderson Answers in Genesis

• Study confirms truth behind ‘Darwin’s moth’

  August 17, 2018 University of Exeter

  Scientists have revisited -- and confirmed -- one of the most famous textbook examples of evolution in action.

• If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently?

  August 17, 2018 Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon

• Blog Post

  Do Children Trust Robots Too Much?

  August 17, 2018 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Maybe, but more study is needed, say researchers

• New Findings Challenge Secular Dating Models

  August 16, 2018 Vernon R. Cupps Institute for Creation Research

• The Controversy Around the First Museum Dinosaurs

  August 16, 2018 Livia Gershon Daily JSTOR

  Dinosaur bones on display at the American Museum of Natural History always balanced conveying objective truth with promoting science to the public.

• The Greatest Mistake in the History of Physics

  August 16, 2018 Ethan Siegel Forbes

• Blog Post

  From the People Who Brought you the Hydrogen Bomb…..

  August 16, 2018 Moshe Averick Times of Israel

• News Update/Commentary

  Earliest galaxies found 'on our cosmic doorstep'

  August 16, 2018 Paul Rincon BBC News