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Dog Origins Disputed
December 17, 2015 The Scientist
a genomic study suggests that dogs diverged from wolves in Southeast Asia 33,000 years ago, contrary to reports placing their origins elsewhere on the continent
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New species of human may have shared our caves -- and beds
December 17, 2015 New Scientist
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Early Builders Were Intelligent Designers
December 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What do Stonehenge and Chaco Canyon have in common? On opposite sides of the globe, they illustrate human nature.
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How birds spread around the globe
December 17, 2015 Nature, v.528, p.311
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Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems
December 17, 2015 Nature, v.528, p.345-351
The fossil record provides a nuanced view of ecosystem collapse over intervals of mass extinction, with abundant, biomineralizing and widespread species preferentially preserved; here the authors collate evidence for ‘m
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365 days: The science events that shaped 2015
December 17, 2015 Nature, v.528, p.448-451
gene-editing, climate change, and Pluto are among the year’s top stories
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The latest! Chitchat “evolved” Did you know?
December 16, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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The media today are actually Warsaw 1982
December 16, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Sean Carroll and the Time with Two Heads
December 16, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Ten Myths About Dover: #5, "Discovery Institute Supported Dover School Board Policy"
December 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Predators key to helping prey evolve with climate change
December 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Geologists focus on extraterrestrial mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on Earth
December 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Plants crawled onto land earlier than we give them credit, genetic evidence suggests
December 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Fossils enrich our understanding of evolution
December 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Preserved embryos illustrate seed dormancy in early angiosperms
December 16, 2015 Science Daily
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The science myths that will not die
December 16, 2015 Nature, v.528, p.322-325
False beliefs and wishful thinking about the human experience are common. They are hurting people -- and holding back science.
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A Fight for the Soul of Science
December 16, 2015 Natalie Wolchover / Quanta Magazine
String theory, the multiverse and other ideas of modern physics are potentially untestable. At a historic meeting in Munich, scientists and philosophers asked: should we trust them anyway?
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Parrots use pebble tools to grind up own mineral supplements
December 16, 2015 New Scientist
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Many animals can give birth without mating
December 16, 2015 BBC
we think of virgin births as a miracle and for humans they would be, but for many animals virgin births are a choice
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Constant Evolution
December 16, 2015 The Scientist
bacteria growing in an unchanging environment continue to adapt indefinitely
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Could Evolution Ever Yield a ‘Perfect’ Organism?
December 16, 2015 Discover Magazine
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3 billion-year-old fossils show early microbes lived in cavities
December 16, 2015 New Scientist
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The Farce Awakens: More Just-So Stories for the Darwin Crowd
December 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are more examples of farcical Just-So Stories from evolutionary biologists and psychologists. Pick your winner!
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Not 'junk' anymore: Obscure DNA has key role in stroke damage
December 15, 2015 Science Daily
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Scientist unravels the mysteries of a beetle that lived nearly 100 million years ago
December 15, 2015 Science Daily
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Fossil Discovery Adds Another Phylum to the Cambrian Explosion
December 15, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Ten Myths About Dover: #6, "Judge Jones, No Activist, Stayed Strictly Within His Authority"
December 15, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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DNA Dates Dog Domestication Back 33,000 Years
December 15, 2015 discovery.com
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Elite scientists can hold back science
December 15, 2015 Vox
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God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war
December 15, 2015 New Scientist, n.3052
An infinite universe and many worlds leave no room for a creator -- and that’s been true for millennia. Time to rethink what’s sacred.
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Just-So Stories for the Darwin Crowd
December 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
for the scientifically illiterate, bedtime stories of how things evolved bring contentment
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CRISPR will make 2016 the year of gene-edited organisms
December 15, 2015 New Scientist, n.3052
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Scientists say face mites evolved alongside humans since the dawn of human origins
December 14, 2015 Science Daily
We all have them: New study reveals that people from different regions host different mite lineages.
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Small fish species evolved rapidly following 1964 Alaska earthquake
December 14, 2015 Science Daily
genomic technology has helped document rapid evolutionary transformation of threespine stickleback in less than 50 years
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Is methodological naturalism a defining feature of science? (Part One)
December 14, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Math problems unanswerable due to physics paradox?
December 14, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Humans Evolved for Better Sleep in Less Time
December 14, 2015 Duke Today
humans sleep shorter, deeper than our closest animal relatives
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Top 2015 News: Science Confronts Big Bang
December 14, 2015 Institute for Creation Research
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Fleming's discovery of penicillin couldn't get published today. That's a huge problem.
December 14, 2015 vox.com
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Cheetahs Prospered in North America
December 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If evolutionists can say cheetahs migrated over continents, why can’t Biblical creationists say the same?
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Science faith differs from religious faith? Hmmm. If only…
December 13, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Outsmarting our “irrational brain” -- or ourselves?
December 13, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Methodological naturalism: Darwin’s sucker punch
December 13, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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How did consciousness become a problem?
December 12, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Converting carnivores to herbivores
December 12, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Science Will Never Know Some Things
December 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
working against scientists’ ambitions are hurdles of reality
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Why do naturalists grudgingly use the word “design”? Part I
December 11, 2015 Uncommon Descent
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Ten Myths About Dover: #10, "The Intelligent Design Movement Died After the Dover Decision"
December 11, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Influence of Earth's history on the dawn of modern birds
December 11, 2015 Science Daily
new time tree indicates that avian evolution was molded by climate change and plate tectonics
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Can You Perceive a Star That's No Longer There?
December 11, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)