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Did Neanderthals bury their dead?
May 29, 2014 Nature, v.509, p.536
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News Update/Commentary
Four-billion-year-old rocks yield clues about Earth's earliest crust
May 29, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Huge tooth fossil shows marine predator had plenty to chew on
May 29, 2014 Science Daily
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First It Was the Genome, Now the Proteome: Another Information-Rich Library
May 29, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times
May 28, 2014 New Scientist, n.2971, p.18
big ground birds like emus and moas may look alike, but they are only distantly related, and flightlessness evolved six times within 10 million years
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The Early Hummingbird Gets the Evolutionary Nectar
May 28, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a three-inch fossil bird is said to be the earliest nectar-feeder, meaning pollination by birds is older and more complex than thought
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News Update/Commentary
A habitable environment on Martian volcano?
May 27, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Intertwined evolution of human brain and brawn
May 27, 2014 Science Daily
the cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious
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Age-old relationship between birds and flowers: World’s oldest fossil of a nectarivorous bird
May 27, 2014 Science Daily
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Media Swarm to Latest Human Evolution Tale
May 27, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
we had to lose muscle to grow bigger brains, some evolutionists said, and the media went ape
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Human Origins: The War of Trivial Explanations
May 27, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Where Have All the Craters Gone?
May 27, 2014 GSA Press Release 14-36
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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin
May 26, 2014 New Scientist, n.2970, p.48-49
we are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans -- and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios
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Code Busting: Genomes Where a "Stop" Sign Means "Go"
May 26, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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SETI Advocates Try to Persuade Congress for Funds
May 26, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in hopes of keeping funding flowing, the SETI Institute promised US congresspersons that scientists will find extraterrestrial life in our lifetime
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Atheists Usually Prosper Over Creationists in the Media
May 25, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Creationists Claim Dinosaur Skeleton in Creation Museum Debunks Evolution
May 25, 2014 Fashion Times
evidence contrary to young earth dogma, scientists say
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Galileo and Medieval Science
May 25, 2014 YouTube
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How Big Bird Evolved into Little Kiwi
May 24, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the latest story about flightless birds is so counter-intuitive, maybe it belongs on Sesame Street instead of textbooks
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Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution
May 23, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6186, p.898-900
elephant bird mitochondrial sequences suggest that flightless bird ancestors were able to fly and dispersed through flight
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Lamarck was partially right -- and that is good for corals
May 23, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6186, p.798-799
tabletop corals can adapt to changing temperature conditions on shorter time scales than previously thought
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If Brain Determines Politics, It Also Determines Science
May 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
recognizing a self-refuting position is a shortcut through the paralysis of scientific analysis
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The Myth of Human "Tails": A Physician and Surgeon's Perspective
May 23, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Psychology Struggling to Regain Scientific Image
May 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in the wake of scandals and replication failures, psychiatry and social psychology are enduring scrutiny some practitioners call an “inquisition” or “bullying”
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Siberian origin for Native Americans
May 22, 2014 Nature, v.509, p.403
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Oldest sperm found in fossil
May 22, 2014 Nature, v.509, p.402
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient DNA ends Australia's claim to kiwi origins
May 22, 2014 Science Daily
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Where have all the craters gone? Earth's bombardment history and the expected terrestrial cratering record
May 22, 2014 Geological Society of American Bulletin
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A Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur graveyard in deep marine slope channel deposits at Torres del Paine National Park, southern Chile
May 22, 2014 Geological Society of American Bulletin
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Darwin-Defending Historians Debate Whether It's Justified for Cosmos "to Lie" for the Sake of Science
May 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Jelly genome mystery
May 21, 2014 Nature, v.509, p.411
publication of the draft genetic sequence of a comb jelly reveals a nervous system like no other
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Skinny wormholes could send messages through time
May 21, 2014 New Scientist, n.2970, p.11
a wormhole with a long, thin throat could prop itself open long enough to let through pulses of light, offering a way to talk across time
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Earth's backup: Sending religious texts to the moon
May 21, 2014 New Scientist, n.2970, p.8-9
sending a sacred Jewish scroll to the moon could be just the beginning of an apocalypse-proof off-world backup of all culture and life on Earth
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Wonderful Lives
May 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
biologists continue to find unexpected wonders in living things
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Bacteria and fungi from 1,500-year-old feces support archeological theories of Caribbean cultures
May 20, 2014 Science Daily
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Judge Jones Is Back: 2005 Anti-ID, 2014 Anti-Marriage
May 20, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the judge who ruled against intelligent design in the Dover case has just overturned Pennsylvania’s defense of marriage law
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Bryan College Is Torn: Can Darwin and Eden Coexist?
May 20, 2014 New York Times
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Panspermia, Environmental Alarmism, Socialism, Gaia, Nazi-Comparisons, and More: Cosmos's Endgame Is Becoming Clear
May 20, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How the Darwinian View of Human "Tails" Leads to Harmful Medical Practices
May 19, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Adult Stem Cells Continue to Offer Hope
May 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
advances with adult stem cells continue to promise new cures without violating ethical concerns over embryo research
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Earth organisms survive under Martian conditions: Methanogens stay alive in extreme heat and cold
May 19, 2014 Science Daily
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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already
May 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2969, p.40-41
We know our ancestors cosied up to our Neanderthal cousins, but did their liaisons leave an imprint on today's languages?
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Evolution Is Rapid Except When It Is Static
May 18, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a new living fossil and others that must have changed rapidly or not at all are described in recent news
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Cosmology Goes Off the Reservation
May 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If science were ever restricted to observation, experimental demonstration, and evidence, some cosmologists left that reservation far behind long ago. Being smart does not preclude going nutty.
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Researchers Discover Fossils of Largest Dino Believed to Ever Walk the Earth
May 17, 2014 Good Morning America (Yahoo! News)
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Alien DNA Found? Yes, and It Was Intelligently Designed
May 17, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Hidden Life of the Cell
May 16, 2014 BBC
2012 --- Ebola virus is threatening to spread out of Africa. Zika virus is evolving and circulating in more than 50 countries. At this stage we must inform ourselves and others about viruses.
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Even the Plants Have Eyes
May 16, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How do plants steer toward the light? They have eyes the size of molecules.
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Bones From a Watery 'Black Hole' Confirm First American Origins
May 16, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6185, p.680-681
the bones of a teenage girl who lived as early as 13,000 years ago, found in a deep underwater cave in Mexico, confirm other recent evidence that today's Native Americans have deep roots in the Americas
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Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans
May 16, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6185, p.750-754
the differences between Paleoamericans and Native Americans likely resulted from local evolution