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News Update/Commentary
Birds May Have Used Brainpower to Survive Mass Extinction
January 20, 2009 Fox News
superior brainpower enabled them to survive when 85 percent of animals around them were being wiped out
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News Update/Commentary
Rethinking the Genetic Theory of Inheritance: Heritability May Not Be Limited to DNA
January 20, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Adaptation Plays Significant Role in Human Evolution
January 20, 2009 Science Daily
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'We ought to be exterminated'
January 19, 2009 The Guardian (UK) the obscure chapters of Charles Darwin's life are fascinating -- such as his marriage to his cousin Emma, and his fears that inbreeding was the cause of their children's chronic ill health
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Dinosaur fossils suggest speedy extinction
January 19, 2009 Nature News
arctic find challenges the idea that the massive reptiles declined slowly
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Darwin's originality and his understanding of species
January 19, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil illuminates jaw evolution
January 19, 2009 BBC News
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The human brain: Not perfect, but good enough
January 18, 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer
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In defence of Darwin and reason
January 17, 2009 Financial Times (UK)
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Did dark energy give us our cosmos?
January 17, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.8
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Hybrid stem cells -- A step too far
January 17, 2009 Christian Today
with hybrid technologies we are not simply using 'parts' from one life form to help another, we are essentially trying to create, in the test tube, the basic material for a new life form -- and one which is part human
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Discovery of Global Warming
January 17, 2009 Center for History of Physics
support from the American Institute of Physics, the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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The Sins of the Fathers, Take 2
January 17, 2009 Newsweek
at tributes to Darwin, Lamarckism -- inheritance of acquired traits -- will be the skunk at the party
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Everyday choices: One's views might or might not mesh evolution and creation
January 16, 2009 Wausau Daily Herald (Wisconsin)
readers respond to a weekly question about the role of faith and values in their lives
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GENETICS: "Origin of Species in Overdrive"
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.350-351
the genes that cause the sterility of hybrids between species should reveal the molecular genetic and evolutionary mechanisms that drive speciation
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PALEONTOLOGY: "New and Ancient Trace Makers"
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.346-347
trace fossils that are older than known animal fossils may have been formed by large unicellular organisms such as amoebas
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INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: "Astronomy Hits the Big Time"
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.332-335
four hundred years after the invention of the telescope, astronomy is flourishing
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INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: "Astronomy's Greatest Hits"
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.326-329
a timeline showing what we've learned in the 400 years since the invention of the telescope
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A Human Trigger for the Great Quake of Sichuan?
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.322
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"Pondering Astronomy in 2009"
January 16, 2009 Science, v.323, n.5912, p.309
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Martian methane proves Mars is not a dead planet
January 16, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Man refuses to drive 'No God' bus
January 16, 2009 BBC News
a Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God"
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'Fishapod' reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals
January 16, 2009 exduco
a new study published this week in Nature provides a detailed look at the internal head skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae and reveals a key intermediate step in the transformation of the skull that accompanied the shift to life on land by our dis
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What Makes You Uniquely "You"?
January 16, 2009 Discover Magazine
Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe
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Nasa reveals life on Mars
January 15, 2009 The Sun (UK) alien bugs are responsible for strong plumes of methane gas detected on Mars
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Bacteria or Boulders? Methane and Life on Mars
January 15, 2009 Reasons to Believe
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The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet
January 15, 2009 NASA
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God and Science: An Inner Conflict
January 15, 2009 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins
January 15, 2009 Nature, v.457, p.305-308
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Our world may be a giant hologram
January 15, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.24-27
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Humans' prey species evolving dangerously fast
January 14, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.12
a wide range of species are changing faster then they otherwise would to escape human hunters
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Did life begin in a pool of acidic gloop?
January 14, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.28-32
a man playing God in a volcanic mud pool
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Artificial molecule evolves in the lab
January 14, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.9
a new molecule that performs the essential function of life -- self-replication -- could shed light on the origin of all living things
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Editorial: What were the neuroscientists thinking?
January 14, 2009 New Scientist, n.2691, p.3
neuroscience has produced some wonderful science, but now it seems that a good chunk of the papers in this field contain exaggerated claims
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Science Policy Shifts: State decision rekindles creationism vs. evolution debate
January 14, 2009 Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)
the state's top school board has approved rules implementing a new law that's intended to give teachers more freedom in discussing controversial issues in science classes
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Big Bang Evidence for God
January 14, 2009 townhall.com
when I debated atheist Christopher Hitchens recently, one of the eight arguments I offered for Gods existence was the creation of this supremely fine-tuned universe out of nothing
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest bird 'heard like an emu'
January 14, 2009 BBC News
the earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx lithographica, was able to hear like a modern emu
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Genetic 'clock' made in lab
January 14, 2009 Nature News
synthetic metronome keeps time inside mammalian cells
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News Update/Commentary
Dino feathers 'were for display'
January 13, 2009 BBC News
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Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts?
January 13, 2009 Discover Magazine
science's weirdest realm may be responsible for photosynthesis, our sense of smell, and even consciousness itself
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News Update/Commentary
'Reverse Evolution' in Real Time Provides Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Evolution
January 12, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Microscopic Morphology Adds to Scorpion Family Tree
January 12, 2009 Science Daily
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The blurry line between life, nonlife
January 12, 2009 Boston Globe
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What Charles Darwin Owes to Adam Smith
January 12, 2009 Reason Magazine (blog)
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Buddhists welcome science into monasteries
January 12, 2009 New Scientist (blog)
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Research Ties Human Acts to Harmful Rates of Species Evolution
January 12, 2009 New York Times
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Professor denies global warming theory
January 12, 2009 Daily Princetonian
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Christianity and the Round Planet
January 11, 2009 American Thinker
many people grew up believing that when Columbus sailed to America in 1492, Christians at the time thought that he would fall off the edge of the world
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Science is losing to religion
January 11, 2009 Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
interview with Richard Dawkins -- "Darwin's Rottweiler"
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Reverse evolution in real-time
January 11, 2009 EurekAlert!
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia scientists turn back clock on evolution in fruit fly to provide key insights into basic mechanisms of evolution