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Paleoanthropology: Little Foot, Big Mystery
September 9, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6048, p.1374
after nearly 15 years of excavation, the most complete hominin skeleton ever discovered, dubbed "Little Foot," is expected to be out of the cave in which it was discovered within the next 2 months
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A Partial Pelvis of Australopithecus sediba
September 9, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6048, p.1407-1411
although it had a small brain and skull, Australopithecus sediba shows some human-like features in its reconstructed pelvis
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Australopithecus sediba Hand Demonstrates Mosaic Evolution of Locomotor and Manipulative Abilities
September 9, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6048, p.1411-1417
the hand of Australopithecus sediba, a rare example in the hominid fossil record, shows short fingers and a long thumb consistent with improved precision gripping while retaining strength for climbing
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Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo
September 9, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6048, p.1421-1423
further U-series dating and the magnetic stratigraphy of the hosting cave deposits show that Australopithecus sediba lived just under 2 million years ago, near or just before the emergence of Homo
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Paleoanthropology: Skeletons Present an Exquisite Paleo-Puzzle
September 9, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6048, p.1370-1372
partial skeletons of 2-million-year-old hominin Australopithecus sediba leave researchers impressed by their completeness but scratching their heads over the implications for our family tree
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Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution
September, 2011 Erasmus Press
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Perry’s Galileo Moment
September 8, 2011 Religion Dispatches
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The Creation-Evolution Debate Has No Place in Contemporary American Politics
September 8, 2011 Benzinga
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Geocataclysm
September 8, 2011 Istanbul
international congress and exhibition "Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization"
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Near-death experiences may be triggered by serotonin
September 8, 2011 New Scientist, n.2829, p.17
the bright light at the end of a tunnel which some people close to death describe may result from a neurotransmitter flood in the brain
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Scour Earth for traces of intelligent aliens
September 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2829, p.10
if aliens visited Earth long ago, they may have left signs of their technological prowess that would be cheap and easy for us to detect
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Science, faith, and life's origin
September 5, 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the many fascinating things about evolution is that it generates disputes that can help us all better understand what science is and how it differs from religion or other areas of human endeavor.
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A Misguided Attempt to Critique Intelligent Design
September 3, 2011 Evolution News & Science Today
A Response to John Walton’s The Lost World of Genesis One
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God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway?
September 1, 2011 Kregel Publishers
see also Amazo
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DNA from the Beginning
September 1, 2011 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
an animated primer of the 75 experiments that made modern genetics
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Earth's Magnetic Field Is Decaying Steadily -- with a Little Rhythm (pdf)
September 1, 2011 Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.47 , p.193-201
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Acts & Facts, v.40, n.9 (pdf)
September 1, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
September 1, 2011 Walker & Co
see also Amazon
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
September 1, 2011 Ecco (Harper Collins)
see also Amazon
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Does Questioning Evolution Make You Anti-Science?
September 1, 2011 Huffington Post
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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
September 1, 2011 Icon Books
see Amazon
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
September 1, 2011 Ecco (HarperCollins)
see also Amazon
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The Origins of Grammar: Language in the Light of Evolution, v.2
September 1, 2011 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
September 1, 2011 Free Press (Simon & Schuster)
see also Amazon
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Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will
August 31, 2011 Nature, v.477, p.23-25
scientists think they can prove that free will is an illusion ... philosophers are urging them to think again
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CA Science Center Pays $110,000 Over Canceled Film
August 30, 2011 ABC News (Associated Press)
a documentary on intelligent design can be shown at the California Science Center
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Christianity’s evolution problem
August 29, 2011 Washington Post (blog)
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Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
August, 2011 Zondervan
| See Also Amazon
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Imagining the Downside of Immortality
August 27, 2011 New York Times
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Defeating Darwin in Four Steps -- So Easy a Caveman Could Do It
August 26, 2011 Right Side News
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Oldest fossils show early life was a beach
August 26, 2011 New Scientist, n.2827, p.13
the oldest compelling fossil evidence for cellular life has been discovered on a 3.43-billion-year-old beach in western Australia
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A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
August 25, 2011 Nature, v.476, p.442-445
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Intelligent design has no place in Texas classrooms
August 24, 2011 Daily Cougar (University of Houston)
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Ancient Hinduism enlightens modern notions of evolution
August 24, 2011 Washington Post (blog)
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As the Tree of Life Tumbles: Now, the "Public Goods" Hypothesis
August 24, 2011 Evolution News & Views
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Evidence for Mars floods all dried up?
August 24, 2011 New Scientist, n.2827, p.15
lava, not water, carved the biggest channels on Mars, argues a new study that would overturn four decades of conventional wisdom
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Is Evolution a Crazy Idea?
August 23, 2011 Personal Liberty Digest
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The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth
August 23, 2011 Biology Direct, v. 6, p.41
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Black holes and pulsars could reveal extra dimensions
August 21, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.17
to test for extra dimensions, astronomers should hunt for pulsars that are distancing themselves from their black hole companions
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Exoplanetary Research: A Distant Glimpse of Alien Life?
August 19, 2011 Science, v.333, n.6045, p.930-932
as they verge on detecting worlds where organisms might thrive, some astronomers are preparing for the next big step: determining whether E.T. is really there
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Moon may be 200 million years younger than thought
August 17, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.13
a rock thought to date from the moon's formation turns out be much younger than previously supposed
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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past
August 17, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.3
Evolution has been rewound to create a "snouted" chicken. That means we might also be able to fast-forward it to create the animals of the future.
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No need to fear rewinding evolution
August 17, 2011 New Scientist, n.2826, p.3
experiments to manipulate a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within are in effect creating a "monster", but they can bring important advances too
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First life: The search for the first replicator
August 15, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.32-35
life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself -- and now we think we know how to make one
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Is the answer to the age-old question found in faith, science or both -- and what do we teach our children?
August 14, 2011 Avalanche-Journal (Lubbock, TX)
Are the windows to the soul the fearfully and wonderfully made creation of a sentient deity? Depends on whom you ask.
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Time need not end in the multiverse
August 11, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.8
last year, a group of cosmologists argued that time might end -- now others say they can save the fourth dimension
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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree
August 10, 2011 New Scientist, n.2825, p.10
the Siberian Denisova cave has surrendered a treasure that could shed light on early humans' promiscuous relations with their hominin cousins
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Evangelicals Question the Existence of Adam and Eve
August 9, 2011 National Public Radio
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Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history
August 9, 2011 Nature, v.476, p.136-137
modern humans may have picked up key genes from extinct relatives
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News Update/Commentary
'Amino Acid Time Capsule': New Way to Date the Past
August 8, 2011 Science Daily