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EVOLUTION: "Time's Stamp on Modern Biogeography"
February 6, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5915, p.720-721
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: "Agreeing to Disagree"
February 6, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5915, p.706-708
two friends debate the relative importance of kinship in the evolution of complex social systems in insects
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"Evidence for Ecological Speciation and Its Alternative"
February 6, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5915, p.737-741
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"Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin"
February 6, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5915, p.727
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News Update/Commentary
Key Insights into How New Species Emerge
February 6, 2009 Science Daily
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Why the Catholic church can't ignore science
February 6, 2009 New Scientist, n.2694, p.25
the Vatican's latest report on bioethics demonstrates once more that a morality rooted in outdated, pre-scientific understanding is not appropriate to modern realities
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Fossil Reveals the Origins of Claws
February 6, 2009 softpedia
the find is a proverbial “missing link”
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Darwin, DNA and destiny
February 6, 2009 Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada)
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Debate: Should Schools Teach Creationism?
February 6, 2009 U.S. News & World Report
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Young-earth creationists value literal reading of Bible over human intellect
February 6, 2009 Associated Baptist Press
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Intelligent design renews debate between science and religion
February 6, 2009 Associated Baptist Press
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Darwin controversial in life and death
February 6, 2009 Associated Baptist Press
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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