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Grand delusions: Why we're determined to be free
April 19, 2011 New Scientist, n.2808, p.32-35
neuroscience says we don't make our own decisions -- but if we believed that, the world would be full of liars, cheats and losers
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Scientist imam: Muslims need to talk about evolution
April 19, 2011 New Scientist, n.2808, p.29
we need devout Muslim scientists to speak out, says Usama Hasan, who has had death threats for saying evolution is compatible with the Koran
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The earliest pterobranch reveals stasis
April 18, 2011 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Long-Sought Fossil Mammal with Transitional Middle Ear
April 17, 2011 Science Daily
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Where does good come from?
April 17, 2011 Boston Globe
Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again
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Book
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
April, 2011 Belknap (Harvard University Press)
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Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
April 15, 2011 Popular Science
like Schrödinger's cat, teleported light is both dead and alive
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Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species’ Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics
April 15, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6027, p.349-351
fossil records show that speciation and extinction are influenced by interaction with other species and with the environment
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Make It Quantum and Continuous
April 15, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6027, p.313-314
robust teleportation of a fragile Schrödinger's-cat state was achieved with nonclassical wave-like states of light
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Asteroid Model Shows Early Life Suffered a Billion-Year Battering
April 15, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6027, p.302-303
evidence of a prolonged pummeling by huge asteroids several billion years ago would have dwarfed the one that killed off the dinosaurs
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Tennessee House Bill Opens Door to Challenges to Evolution, Climate Change
April 15, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6027, p.295
U.S. science educators are wringing their hands over what they characterize as a significant legislative victory for those who oppose the teaching of evolution
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News Update/Commentary
Weak Evidence for Word-Order Universals
April 14, 2011 Science Daily
language not as 'innate' as thought
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Language universality idea tested with biology method
April 14, 2011 BBC News
a long-standing idea that human languages share universal features that are dictated by human brain structure has been cast into doubt
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Evolutionary Babel was in southern Africa
April 14, 2011 New Scientist
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The peppered moth's dark genetic past revealed
April 14, 2011 Nature News
researchers find that a single ancestor is responsible for the 'best example' of natural selection
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Dark matter no-show at sensitive underground lab
April 14, 2011 New Scientist
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Mammalian evolution: A jaw-dropping ear
April 14, 2011 Nature, v.472, p.174-176
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Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont
April 14, 2011 Nature, v.472, p.181-185
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News Update/Commentary
Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Rapidly Between Bacteria
April 13, 2011 Science Daily
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Complex life left the oceans earlier than thought
April 13, 2011 MSNBC (Live Science)
the eukaryotes spent more time evolving on land
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Ancient lakes show when eukaryotic life left the sea
April 13, 2011 New Scientist
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Old open air voyagers
April 13, 2011 The Scientist
freshwater eukaryotes may have ventured onto land nearly 500 million years earlier than fossil evidence previously suggested
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Hear my chewin': how jawbones evolved into ear bones
April 13, 2011 New Scientist, n.2808, p.16
the bones of your middle ear were once part of a mammalian ancestor's jaw -- a remarkable Cretaceous fossil provides a snapshot of how this happened
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British boy born with extra DNA strand
April 12, 2011 Yahoo! News
a British toddler born with an extra strand in his DNA is the first and only case known in the world
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Sharp-toothed fossil links old, new dinosaurs
April 12, 2011 MSNBC (Associated Press)
'it looks to be a mean character,' paleontologist says of find in western U.S.
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News Update/Commentary
First Galaxies Were Born Much Earlier Than Expected
April 12, 2011 Science Daily
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New Images Show Far Side of the Moon Looks Young
April 11, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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Leading atheist publishes secular Bible
April 11, 2011 CNN
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Fossil data enter the web period
April 11, 2011 Nature, v.472, p.150
palaeontologists call for more sharing of raw information
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Jesus would believe in evolution and so should you
April 10, 2011 CNN (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
New Genetic Study Helps Solve Darwin's Mystery About Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants
April 10, 2011 Science Daily
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Longtime community activist publishes books
April 9, 2011 San Bernardino Sun (California)
Before entering medical school to become an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Edmund Dombrowski was an evolutionist and atheist. Somewhere along the way, his views changed, and now, he has written a book refuting evolution
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Exo-evolution: Aliens who hide, survive
April 8, 2011 New Scientist
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Rapid Insect Evolution by Symbiont Transfer
April 8, 2011 Science, v.332, n.6026, p.185-186
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Neanderthals: Bad luck and its part in their downfall
April 7, 2011 New Scientist, n.2807, p.11
our long-lost cousins may have simply been unlucky and wiped out by the random genetic lottery of sexual reproduction
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Bill Allowing Teachers to Challenge Evolution Passes Tennessee House
April 7, 2011 Science
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Instant evolution
April 7, 2011 The Scientist
bacteria infect an invasive pest species, rapidly transforming the bugs' development and reproduction
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Palaeoanthropology: Remains in ancient cave get younger
April 7, 2011 Nature, v.472, p.8
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‘Critical Thinking’ or Creationism in Tennessee Classrooms?
April 6, 2011 MetroPulse (Knoxville, TN)
supporters of new education legislation say it promotes objective discussion, but who’s really behind it
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Martin Rees takes Templeton Prize
April 6, 2011 Nature News
controversial 'spirituality' award goes to a scientist for fourth year in a row
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'Tree of lice' suggests mammals did OK under dinos
April 6, 2011 New Scientist, n.2807, p.15
fossil lice reveal that the pests split into many species before the dinosaurs went extinct -- with implications for the evolution of mammals and birds
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The Inflation Debate
April 6, 2011 Scientific American
Is the theory at the heart of modern cosmology deeply flawed?
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A buttercup cousin from the Age of Dinosaurs
April 4, 2011 Access Research Network (blog)
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Did deadly formaldehyde give life to Earth?
April 4, 2011 MSNBC (Live Science)
scientists test the theory in their lab, and say the answer is most likely 'yes'
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The first stars, as seen by supercomputers
April 1, 2011 Physics Today
Today’s telescopes cannot look far enough into the cosmic past to observe the formation of primordial stars. If you want to see that process, you need sophisticated numerical simulations.
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Book
On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
April 1, 2011 Oxford University Press
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.40, n.4 (pdf)
April 1, 2011 Institute for Creation Research
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
April 1, 2011 University of Toronto
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News Update/Commentary
Searching for alien life? Check out failed stars
April 1, 2011 MSNBC
potential exists on free-floating planets and sub-brown dwarfs
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Creation-Evolution Headlines
April 1, 2011 Master Plan Productions