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Book
Nature's Editors Warn Pope Francis
March 21, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Animals Grieve
March, 2013 University of Chicago Press
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Evolutionary Origin of Biological Function and Complexity
March 20, 2013 Journal of Molecular Evolution, v.76, p.185–191
The identification of dynamic kinetic stability (DKS) as a stability kind that governs the evolutionary process for both chemical and biological replicators, opens up new avenues for uncovering the chemical basis of biological phenomena.
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Scientists Discover Layer of Liquified Molten Rock in Earth's Mantle
March 20, 2013 National Science Foundation
hidden magma layer could play role in shaping the geologic face of our planet
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Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads
March 20, 2013 New Scientist, n.2909, p.17
"vehicular selection" seems to be working on US cliff swallows: they have evolved shorter wings that help them take off quickly and dart away from cars
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Four wings bad, two wings better -- for early birds
March 20, 2013 New Scientist, n.2909, p.11
evidence is mounting that primitive birds initially evolved flight using four wings
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OOLishness: The Imaginary World of Origin-of-Life Studies
March 20, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why aren’t philosophers of science shaming origin-of-life researchers out of the science department? OOL theories depend on imagination, not empirical evidence, for their broad-brush conclusions.
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Curiosity's discoveries hint at life's cradle on Mars
March 20, 2013 New Scientist, n.2909, p.8
rover's latest scoop of clay suggests Red Planet once had water and holds the secret to the origins of life there and on Earth
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In The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson Offers the Best Explication Yet of Nagel's Book and the Nagel Affair
March 20, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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"God of the Gaps" Revisited
March 20, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Scientists Discover Layer of Liquified Molten Rock in Earth's Mantle
March 20, 2013 National Science Foundation
hidden magma layer could play role in shaping the geologic face of our planet
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A New Worm from the Cambrian Highlights Darwin's Dilemma
March 19, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Skeptics Can Break the Cycle of False Beliefs
March 19, 2013 Scientific American
pluralistic ignorance and the last best hope on Earth
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Book
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
March, 2013 W. W. Norton
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Could the Eye Have Evolved by Natural Selection in a Geological Blink?
March 18, 2013 Uncommon Descent
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Science Dismisses Nagel Book with Faint Praise
March 18, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Exquisite bird fossils reveal egg-producing ovary
March 17, 2013 Nature News
early avians lost one of two ovaries to take flight
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From His Word Ministries
March 17, 2013
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Gold, Earthquakes, and Time
March 17, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
how long does it take to form veins of gold in the rock? (a) millions of years; (b) less than a second
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News to Note
March 16, 2013 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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What Color Were Dinosaurs?
March 16, 2013 Scientific American
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Adaptive Evolution of Multiple Traits Through Multiple Mutations at a Single Gene
March 15, 2013 Science, v.339, n.6125, p.1312-1316
the light color of mice living in the Nebraska Sand Hills is not the result of a single large-effect mutation
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Dramatic Fossils Suggest Early Birds Were Biplanes
March 15, 2013 Science, v.339, n.6125, p.1261
eleven beautifully preserved skeletons of early birds provide evidence that having four wings--not two--was the ancestral condition for early birds
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Hind Wings in Basal Birds and the Evolution of Leg Feathers
March 15, 2013 Science, v.339, n.6125, p.1309-1312
fossils of basal birds have feathers on all four limbs, suggesting that the present two-winged condition is a derived state
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The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life Just Got Finer
March 15, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Evolutionary biology: Twisting the tale of human evolution
March 14, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.172
debunking of myths about our evolutionary fitness for the twenty-first century
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Botany: A tree for all time
March 14, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.170-171
a biography of the ginkgo, an arboreal survivor that has outlasted the dinosaurs
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Confirmed! Newfound Particle Is a Higgs Boson
March 14, 2013 Live Science
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Ancient camels in the Arctic
March 14, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.145
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Astrophysics: Quasars still defy explanation
March 14, 2013 Nature, v.495, p.165-167
fifty years after finding that these cosmic beacons lie far away, astronomers need to think harder about how they radiate so much energy
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Refuting old-earth church publication
March 14, 2013 Creation Ministries International
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News Update/Commentary
Five-Million-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat in Newly Discovered Genus
March 14, 2013 Science Daily
discovered in Florida
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Life Found Deep inside Earth's Oceanic Crust
March 14, 2013 Scientific American
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Early birds flew on four wings
March 14, 2013 Nature News
two-winged flight followed emergence of avian ancestors
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Magazine Article
First Birds Might Have Flown on 4 Wings
March 14, 2013 Scientific American
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Pope Francis, Evolution and the Curia
March 14, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Richard Dawkins Ranks Live Pig Above Human Fetus
March 14, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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When John Lennox Met C. S. Lewis
March 13, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Disputed finds put humans in South America 22,000 years ago
March 13, 2013 Science News
Brazilian site may have been home to people before the Clovis hunters
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The body: It takes all shapes and sizes
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.37-39
the human body has changed hugely over decades as well as over millennia, so why do we vary so much, and how will we evolve
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The father of all men is 340,000 years old
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.10
we had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years -- but one African American man has broken the mould
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Paleofantasy Runs Amok
March 13, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.8
our lost cousins had better eyesight than us, but they may have been less adept at socialising as a result
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Mystery bug found in Antarctica's Lake Vostok
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.5
water samples from subglacial lake may have revealed a bacterium that does not seem to belong to known families
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Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.5
synthetic genome pioneer says that his team is close to creating a living bacterium made completely from scratch
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Mystery boson earns Higgs status thanks to W particle
March 13, 2013 New Scientist, n.2908, p.9
new decay data confirms that the unsatisfyingly named "Higgs-like particle" announced at CERN last year really is a Higgs boson
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Neanderthals doomed by vision-centered brains
March 13, 2013 Fox News (Live Science)
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Evolutionary biology: Sex, lies and butterflies
March 13, 2013 Nature, v.507, p.172-173
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In the Planetary Science Journal Icarus, the "Wow!" Signal of Intelligent Design
March 12, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Arctic Camel Found
March 10, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
fossils from a large species of camel living in Canada’s high arctic contain soft tissue