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Scientists irate after top education official questions evolution
February 21, 2010 Haaretz
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Junk DNA holds clues to heart disease
February 21, 2010 Nature News
deleting a non-coding region leads to narrowing of arteries in mice
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NAS President in damage control over climategate
February 20, 2010 Biblical Geology (blog)
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Laryngeal echolocation in bats
February 19, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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Water-dwelling dinosaur breaks the mould
February 19, 2010 Nature News
spinosaurs' semi-aquatic habits helped them coexist with tyrannosaurs
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Great divide separates creationists, evolutionists
February 19, 2010 Decatur Daily (Tennessee Valley)
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News Update/Commentary
Viruses Helped Shape Human Genetic Variability
February 19, 2010 Science Daily
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Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales
February 19, 2010 Science, v.327, n.5968, p.993-996
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News Update/Commentary
New Type of Genetic Variation Could Strengthen Natural Selection
February 18, 2010 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Random Fluctuations Give Rise to Odd Genetic Phenomenon
February 18, 2010 Science Daily
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"The Establishment of Geohistory"
February 18, 2010 Isis, v.100, p.872-880
review of Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Martin J. S. Rudwick (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
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Darwinism's Tragic Genius: Psychology and Reputation
February 18, 2010 Isis, v.100, p.863-867
REVIEW: The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
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Darwin's Emotions: The Scientific Self and the Sentiment of Objectivity
February 18, 2010 Isis, v.100, p.811-826
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On Darwin's palaeontology in The Origin of Species
February 18, 2010 Comptes Rendus Biologies
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Testability
February 18, 2010 Apologetics Press: Sensible Science
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"The unfolding of time"
February 18, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.881
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"Early life: Ancient acritarchs"
February 18, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.885-886
Big and beautiful microfossils have been extracted from rocks that are more than 3 billion years old. They offer tantalizing hints about the antiquity of the eukaryote lineage of organisms that includes ourselves.
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"Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits"
February 18, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.934-938
Claims that life existed on Earth 3.2 billion years ago are often controversial, as non-biological processes can produce life-like microstructures and chemical signatures that mimic those of the remains of living organi
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Drake wants off-world listening post for alien messages
February 18, 2010 New Scientist, n.2748, p.5
the founder of SETI speaks of his wish for a spacecraft parked 82 million kilometres from the sun to listen for ET
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"Numerical Simulation of Precipitation in Yosemite National Park with a Warm Ocean: A Pineapple Express Case Study"
February 17, 2010 Answers Research Journal, v.3, p.23-36
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"Evolution: Revenge of the hopeful monster"
February 17, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.864-867
experiments have revealed how single mutations can have huge effects that drive evolution, but small steps pave the way
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"World view: Calling science to account"
February 17, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.875
Scientists and the media are trapped in a cosy relationship that benefits neither. They should challenge each other more.
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Dispelling the myths about Intelligent Design
February 17, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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"Pharaoh puzzle"
February 17, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.859
What really killed Tutankhamun?
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'Climategate' scientist speaks out
February 17, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.860
embattled climatologist Phil Jones faces his critics
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'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers
February 17, 2010 New Scientist, n.2748, p.5
the scientist at the heart of the "climategate" affair has broken his silence, attacking bloggers and other critics
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The scary business of tinkering with life
February 17, 2010 New Scientist, n.2748, p.3
an artificially "extended" genetic code is bound to raise public concerns -- and they must be dealt with openly and honestly
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Jane Goodall: 'There is no problem in having empathy'
February 17, 2010 New Scientist, n.2748, p.28-29
fifty years after she began studying chimps, the conservationist explains why emotional involvement helped her understand them -- and could save them
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"Three biologists slain on campus"
February 16, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.856
professor's arrest sends shock waves around the University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Evolution, design: both right?
February 16, 2010 Dallas Morning News
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Primordial giant: The star that time forgot
February 15, 2010 New Scientist, n.2747, p.28-31
the colossal explosion of an "impossible" star may open a window onto the earliest days of the cosmos
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The BAND plays "some dinosaurs may have descended from birds"
February 15, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design
February 14, 2010 Uncommon Descent
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World may not be warming
February 14, 2010 Times Online (UK)
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News Update/Commentary
New Picture of Ancient Ocean Chemistry Argues for Chemically Layered Water
February 13, 2010 Science Daily
a three-dimensional model of Earth's early ocean chemistry that can significantly advance our understanding of how early animal life evolved on the planet
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Kentucky's "Intellectural Freedom" Act
February 12, 2010 Science and Religion Today
would let teachers promote “objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories”
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General Synod says religion and science not mutually exclusive
February 12, 2010 Guardian (UK)
rejecting science 'weakens Christian voice' but churchgoers 'should not take Bible as a modern textbook'
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Creationism Vs. Evolution: An American Problem, An American Opportunity
February 12, 2010 National Public Radio (blog)
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Neoproterozoic signs of life
February 12, 2010 Highly Allochthonous
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News Update/Commentary
Tigers evolved with snow leopards, gene study reveals
February 12, 2010 BBC News
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Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
February 11, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.757-762
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"Evolutionary biology: Face of the past reconstructed"
February 11, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.739-740
DNA is particularly well preserved in hair enabling the genome of a human to be sequenced, and his ancestry and appearance to be determined, from 4000-year-old remains
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"Evolution: All thumbs and toes"
February 11, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.712
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"Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation"
February 11, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.797-800
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Mass Extinctions: 'Giant' Fossils Are Revolutionizing Current Thinking
February 11, 2010 Science Daily
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New book examines the flawed human body
February 11, 2010 physorg.com
in his new book, UCI evolutionary biologist John Avise examines why flaws exist in the biological world
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Stephen Barr’s Unreasonable Reasonableness
February 10, 2010 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Surprising New Branches on Arthropod Family Tree
February 10, 2010 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around?
February 10, 2010 Science Daily
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"Palaeogenetics: Icy resolve"
February 10, 2010 Nature, v.463, p.724-725
Eske Willerslev combines Arctic escapades with meticulous lab work in his quest to pull ancient DNA from the ice ... extracting the first ancient human genome