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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen
February 19, 2014 New Scientist, n.2957, p.12
simple sponges can live with 200 times less oxygen than present atmospheric levels, supporting the idea that animals evolved before oxygen-rich oceans
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The Dawn of Plate Tectonics
February 19, 2014 Science
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Just Say No! to Evolutionary Speculation
February 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“Prove it!” used to be the goal of science. With rampant speculation in the science news media, it’s time to demand accountability.
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For His Substance-Free Contribution to the Debate with Stephen Meyer, American Spectator Readers Pummel John Derbyshire
February 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Online Premiere: To Understand What's Really at Stake in the Evolution Debate, Watch The War on Humans Now
February 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Spin on Planets
February 18, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
as the orbs whirl around Sol, human understanding of our space neighborhood rises and falls
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution stuck in slime for a billion years
February 18, 2014 Science Daily
researchers are providing a new explanation as to why life remained as little more than slime for a billion years, before rapidly diversifying in the 'Cambrian explosion of life'
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Watching Tommy: Yes, Whether Scientific or Otherwise, a Culture Can Pull Back from the Brink
February 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Human Being Is a Valuable Design
February 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
There’s more amazing technology going on inside you than meets the eye. Should not human life be honored and protected?
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Can All the Numbers for Life's Origin Just Happen to Fall into Place?
February 17, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth
February 16, 2014 Yahoo! News
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News Update/Commentary
Volcanoes, including Mt. Hood, can go from dormant to active in a few months
February 16, 2014 Science Daily
a new study suggests that the magma sitting 4-5 kilometers beneath the surface of Oregon's Mount Hood has been stored in near-solid conditions for thousands of years, but that the time it takes to liquefy and potentially erupt is surprisin
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The War on Humans (documentary)
February 16, 2014 Discovery Institute
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Biomimetics Quiz
February 16, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
match the living thing with the technology being developed by imitating its design features
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Tree Crocodiles and Other Surprising Animals
February 15, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
scientists have a lot to learn about living animals before presuming to speak of long-lost extinct ones
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Ichthyosaur Fossilized Giving Birth
February 14, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
caught in the act: another fossil shows an extinct marine reptile giving birth to live young
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Ancient Infant Was Ancestor of Today's Native Americans
February 14, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6172, p.716-717
a child who lived nearly 13,000 years ago in what is today Montana was closely related to the ancestors of today's Native Americans
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A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History
February 14, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6172, p.747-751
evidence of human migrations over the past 4000 years is identified in existing genomes
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Suddenly, It's OK to Say that Owls Are Engineered
February 14, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Fossilized mammoth tusk removed from Seattle construction site
February 14, 2014 CNN
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New Craters Found on Mars
February 13, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Orbiters can count new craters forming on Mars, refining cratering rates. One spectacular new crater has appeared since 2010 with vivid rays.
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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome
February 13, 2014 New Scientist, n.2956, p.8-10
the genes of a boy who died 12,600 years ago show that all indigenous people in the Americas seem to be descended from the same group of ancestors
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Palaeogenomics: Genetic roots of the first Americans
February 13, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.162-163
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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
February 13, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.225-229
the first individual genome from the Clovis culture is presented; the origins and genetic legacy of the people who made Clovis tools have been under debate, and evidence here suggests that the individual is more closely
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News Update/Commentary
Mixed genes: Interactive world map of human genetic history reveals likely genetic impacts of historical events
February 13, 2014 Science Daily
Researchers have now produced a global map detailing the genetic histories of 95 different populations across the world, spanning the last four millennia.
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In the Canadian Rockies, a Major Fossil Find Intensifies the Object of Darwin's Doubt
February 13, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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S.C. Sen. Mike Fair drops opposition to evolution teaching standards
February 13, 2014 Charleston City Paper (South Carolina)
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Darwin Day Came and Went
February 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
except among certain special-interest groups, Darwin Day seems to have been a non-event, but one Darwinist won an award for Censor of the Year
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Shroud of Turin: Could ancient earthquake explain face of Jesus?
February 12, 2014 Live Science
Even if an earthquake shook up some neurons responsible for the Shroud's image, critics ask why other materials around it weren't effected?
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Treasure trove of fossils found in Canada will 'significantly' change understanding of evolution
February 12, 2014 Yahoo News
already, 50 animal species have been unearthed
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Jaw dropping: Scientists reveal how vertebrates came to have a face
February 12, 2014 Science Daily
Scientists present new fossil evidence for the origin of one of the most important and emotionally significant parts of our anatomy: the face. Scientists show how a series of fossils, with a 410 million year old armored fish called Romundi
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Ancient reptile birth preserved in fossil: Ichthyosaur fossil may show oldest live reptilian birth
February 12, 2014 Science Daily
Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that evolved from land reptiles and moved to the water. Scientists report a new fossil specimen that belongs to Chaohusaurus (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia), the oldest of Mesozoic marine reptiles that l
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Number crunch
February 12, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.131-132
the correct use of statistics is not just good for science -- it is essential
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Creationists turn to robot for ethical guidance
February 12, 2014 New Scientist, n.2956, p.24
What would Jesus do? An evangelical Christian group has bought a humanoid robot in order to study the dilemmas its brethren pose for humanity.
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Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Intelligent Design
February 12, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Ancient genome stirs ethics debate
February 12, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.142-143
sequencing of DNA from Native American ‘Clovis boy’ forces researchers to rethink handling of tribal remains
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Genome of American Clovis skeleton mapped: Ancestor of most present-day Native American populations
February 12, 2014 Science Daily
The Clovis people were not the first humans in America, but they represent the first humans with a wide expansion on the North American continent -- until the culture mysteriously disappeared only a few hundred years after its origin. Now
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Prehistoric Boy May Be Native American 'Missing Link'
February 12, 2014 Live Science
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Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition
February 12, 2014 New Scientist, n.2957, p.50-51
a groundbreaking display at London's Natural History Museum reveals the humans that occupied Britain for the past million years -- and tells their stories
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Book
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
February, 2014 Basic Books
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Is an earthquake behind the Shroud of Turin image? Radiation from earthquake could have led to 'wrong' 1988 dating
February 11, 2014 Science Daily
Neutron radiation caused by 33 A.D. earthquake could have led to "wrong" 1988 radiocarbon dating of Shroud, suggest researchers. An earthquake in Old Jerusalem might be behind the famous image of the Shroud of Turin, says a group of resear
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Is the Shroud of Turin in relation to the Old Jerusalem historical earthquake?
February 11, 2014 Meccanica: An International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanic
acoustic and other forms of energy emissions from fracture phenomena
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Researchers uncover ‘epic’ new fossil site in Canada -- and say it could hold more species than anywhere else in the world
February 11, 2014 Daily Mail (UK)
site close to Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil sites ... exact location being kept secret to avoid thieves targetting it ... researchers say they are finding fossils at an 'astonishing' rate
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils abound: 'Epic' new Burgess Shale site in Canada's Kootenay National Park
February 11, 2014 Science Daily
Yoho National Park’s 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale -- home to some of the planet’s earliest animals, including a very primitive human relative -- is one of the world’s most important fossil sites. Now, more than a century after its di
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New Cambrian Fossil Quarry Beats Burgess Shale
February 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a new outcrop of the Burgess Shale formation in Canada appears to be richer and more diverse than the original
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A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies
February 11, 2014 Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3210
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Right-wing pastor Mark Creech accuses Pat Robertson of “blasphemy” for rejecting young-earth creationism
February 10, 2014 salon.com
Pat Robertson's belief that the earth is more than 6,000 years old is losing him friends on the religious right
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Giant mass extinction quicker than previously thought: End-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years
February 10, 2014 Science Daily
The largest mass extinction in the history of animal life occurred some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of life on land -- including the largest insects known to have inhabited Earth.
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Censor of the Year: Why Jerry Coyne? It's the Power Differential That Makes the Difference
February 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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For Darwin Day 2014, Discovery Institute Will Name University of Chicago Biologist Jerry Coyne as "Censor of the Year"
February 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)