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Regulating Earth's complex ecosystems
February 6, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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Charles Darwin zealots have made science a substitute religion
February 6, 2009 Telegraph (UK)
Booker is troubled by the fervour surrounding the 200-year anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth
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EVOLUTION: "The Overwhelming Evidence"
February 6, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5915, p.716-717
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REVIEW: 31 December 2008
February 6, 2009 New Scientist, n.2689
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Darwin at 200
February 6, 2009 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS)
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"Natural selection and the nation"
February 5, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.663-664
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Climate change: Snakes tell a torrid tale
February 5, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.669-671
The discovery in Colombia of a giant species of fossil snake is news in itself. But a wider, more controversial inference to be drawn is that tropical climate in the past was not buffered from global warming.
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"Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures"
February 5, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.715-717
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: It's a long story
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Biogeochemistry: Early animals out in the cold
February 5, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.672-673
the enduring controversy about the appearance of animals in the evolutionary record takes a fresh twist with an analysis of molecular fossils that places the rise of the sponge lineage before 635 million years ago
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Fossil Steroids Record the Advent of Earliest Known Animals
February 5, 2009 National Science Foundation
Demosponges appeared 635 million years ago in era of climatic extremes and evolutionary developments
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"Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period"
February 5, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.718-721
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The earliest metazoans
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Pygmies share a recent common ancestor
February 5, 2009 Nature News
the rise of farming may have caused formation of diverse groups
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Space telescope to boost hunt for alien Earths
February 5, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.8-9
the imminent launch of the new Kepler space telescope means we will be able to see Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone" of their stars for the first time
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US museum where dinosaurs roam Eden defies Darwin
February 5, 2009 AFP (Agence France-Presse)
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News Update/Commentary
New Class of Non-protein Coding Genes in Mammals with Key Functions Uncovered
February 5, 2009 Science Daily
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Charles Darwin and Evolution
February 5, 2009 Forbes
two hundred years of origins, struggles and survival
- Alfred Russel Wallace / Michael A. Flannery
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News Update/Commentary
'Nonsense' in Our Genes: One in 200 Human Genes Superfluous?
February 5, 2009 Science Daily
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Seeing and Believing
February 4, 2009 New Republic
the never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed to fail
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Primitive whales gave birth on land
February 4, 2009 New Scientist
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Darwin anniversary books: Pick of the crop
February 4, 2009 New Scientist
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A clock more accurate than time itself
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.39-41
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Born believers: How your brain creates God
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.30-33
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The hunt for alien Earths begins in earnest
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.8-9
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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design
February 4, 2009 Discovery Institute (Seattle, WA)
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International Conference on Science in Society
February 4, 2009 Cambridge University (UK)
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Ben Stein cancels Vermont speech in evolution row
February 4, 2009 Associated Press
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A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution?
February 4, 2009 Technology Review (MIT)
two new studies show that the effects of a mother's early environment can be passed on to the next generation
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Can we please forget about Charles Darwin?
February 4, 2009 Telegraph (UK)
as we celebrate Charles Darwin's anniversary, a leading geneticist argues that our understanding of evolution would be much improved if we removed Darwin's life -- and pointless references to religion -- from the equation
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient sponges leave their mark
February 4, 2009 BBC News
traces of animal life have been found in rocks dating back 635 million years
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What's the point of being warm-blooded?
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.42-45
the evolution of warm-bloodedness, or endothermy, is one of life's great mysteries
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The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.5
one thing that science can tell us about hard times is that religion will prosper
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Asteroid bound for Earth! Warn your grandchildren
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.12
an asteroid that had initially been thought harmless might just hit Earth 160 years from now
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Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.20-21
a robot with a brain that grows as its body develops could lead to more versatile humanoid robots and prosthetics
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"World's largest telescope under construction"
February 4, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.648
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"Neanderthal genome to be unveiled"
February 4, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.645
draft sequence opens window on human relatives
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Giant snake fossil hints at a hotter future
February 4, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.16
the discovery of a 1-tonne ancestor of the boa constrictor suggests that there may be no cap on temperatures in the tropics as global warming gathers pace
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Prehistoric Fossil Snake is Largest on Record
February 4, 2009 National Science Foundation
today's anacondas are mere shadows of 60-million-year old skeleton
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Book
Discover Does Darwin: Special Section on Evolution
February 4, 2009 Discover Magazine
the future of Homo sapiens, genetic proof of evolution, the next Galapagos, and more
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Darwin anniversary reignites ideological debates
February 3, 2009 Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma)
many disagree, while others search for middle
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Reason or faith? Darwin expert reflects
February 3, 2009 University of Wisconsin, Madison
on the top of many Darwin Day speakers lists is Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
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Pregnant fossil shows how early whales evolved
February 3, 2009 Reuters
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Fossil of pregnant whale found
February 3, 2009 Nature News
position of fetus suggests that early whales gave birth on land
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Creationism and Intelligent Design Should Be Kept Out of the Classroom
February 3, 2009 U. S. News & World Report
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Hybrid embryos fail to live up to stem-cell hopes
February 3, 2009 Nature News
strategy for creating pluripotent cells called into question
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Early Whales Gave Birth on Land
February 3, 2009 National Science Foundation
fossil discovery in Pakistan uncovers skeleton of extinct pregnant female whale
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Are You There, E.T.? It's Me, Maggie
February 3, 2009 Discover Magazine
astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull gets paid by NASA to search for alien life
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Point-Counterpoint: Darwin events are one-sided celebration
February 3, 2009 Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma)
one-sided celebration betrays university ideals of diversity, inclusiveness
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Point-Counterpoint: Darwin events are balanced and beneficial
February 3, 2009 Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma)
events to cover myriad aspects of evolution, span many academic fields
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Where faith meets fact
February 2, 2009 Union-Tribune (San Diego, CA)
physicist Karl Giberson's attempt to reconcile science and religion is met with attacks from both camps
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Animal-human clones don't work, U.S. company finds
February 2, 2009 Reuters