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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria convince their squid host to create a less hostile work environment
November 19, 2020 Science Daily
Bacteria living symbiotically within the Hawaiian bobtail squid can direct the host squid to change its normal gene-expression program to make a more inviting home, according to a new study.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists discover roles for a cellular motor in cancer
November 19, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered new functions of a key cellular machine that regulates gene packaging and is mutated in 20 percent of human cancers.
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Galápagos Finches -- A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?
November 20, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does Behe Ignore Critics? Find Out in a Live Webinar Saturday
November 20, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Bill Collector Comes. “Science” Candidates Did Poorly in the US Election
November 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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On Genetic and Biological Truth & Myth
November 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Bacterium Alters Its Genome to Adapt to New Conditions
November 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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“Genes Within Genes” May Contribute to COVID-19’s Pandemic Potential
November 21, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Giant Viruses Integrate into Hosts’ Genomes, Maybe Shaping Their Evolution at Some Points
November 20, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Keep science irrational
November 19, 2020 Aeon
Is hard data the only path to scientific truth? That’s an absurd, illogical and profoundly useful fiction
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Where Was the Birthplace of Modern Humans?
November 18, 2020 Discover magazine
As ancient remains are uncovered and dated, archeologists expand their search for the evolutionary birthplace of Homo sapiens, and debate whether such a place exists.
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Tiny liquid droplets are driving a cell biology rethink
November 18, 2020 Knowable magazine
A recently recognized biophysical feature in the fluid of living cells has biologists thinking afresh about how cells carve up their space
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Giant Viruses Can Integrate into the Genomes of Their Hosts
November 19, 2020 The Scientist
Rather than introducing small chunks of DNA as other viruses do, some giant viruses can contribute more than 1 million base pairs to a host’s genome, broadening the ways in which viruses may shape eukaryote evolution.
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Even Sherlock Holmes Can’t Explain African Dinosaurs
November 19, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Human Hands Are Designed, Not Evolved
November 18, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists finally admit Intelligent Design is valid! (Not exactly, but close)
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News Update/Commentary
The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats
November 19, 2020 Science Daily
The African crested rat is the only mammal known to sequester plant toxins for chemical defense. The researchers also discovered an unexpected social life -- the rats appear to be monogamous and may even form small family units with their offspring.
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News Update/Commentary
Giant aquatic bacterium is a master of adaptation
November 19, 2020 Science Daily
The largest freshwater bacterium lives in places that differ extremely in environmental conditions such as hot springs and ice water. The adaptation is probably achieved by a process which is unique to these bacteria
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Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion
November 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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We Are Urged: Keep Science Irrational
November 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder: The Black Hole Information Problem Is Not Solvable
November 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages
November 4, 2020 Nature
Resolving the early evolution of euarthropods is one of the most challenging problems in metazoan evolution. Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have contributed important palaeontological data to deciphering this evolutionary process
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The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period
November 13, 2020 Nature
New fossil finds and new techniques reveal evidence that early animals were more complex than previously thought.
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The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it’s unsolvable.
November 18, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
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The Bizarre Theories of the American School of Evolution
November 18, 2020 JSTOR Daily
The paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope condemned women’s suffrage and Black Americans through an evolutionary lens.
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Molecular Darwinism Ignores Information
November 17, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In an attempt to bring DNA under Darwin’s mechanism and thermodynamics, this theory ignores the elephant in the room.
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The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
November 18, 2020 MIT Technology Review
The process used to build most of the machine-learning models we use today can't tell if they will work in the real world or not -- and that’s a problem.
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Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
November 19, 2020 Creation Ministries International
a biblical and scientific approach to climate change
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The Ordovician: Life's second big bang
June 11, 2008 New Scientist
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Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs
November 18, 2020 New Scientist
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Capuchin monkeys spotted eating infant in rare act of cannibalism
November 19, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Lurking in genomic shadows: How giant viruses fuel the evolution of algae
November 18, 2020 Science Daily
Biologists have recently discovered that endogenous viral elements that originate from giant viruses are much more common in chlorophyte green algae than previously thought.
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News Update/Commentary
The bull Y chromosome has evolved to bully its way into gametes
November 18, 2020 Science Daily
The research, more than a decade in the making, suggests that bulls' Y chromosomes have evolved dozens of copies of the same genes in a selfish attempt to make more males -- a move that is countered in the female-determining X chromosome.
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News Update/Commentary
Teaching and complex tools ‘evolved together'
November 17, 2020 Science Daily
The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research.
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News Update/Commentary
New test reveals AI still lacks common sense
November 18, 2020 Science Daily
Natural language processing (NLP) has taken great strides recently -- but how much does AI understand of what it reads? Despite advances, AI still doesn't have the common sense needed to generate plausible sentences.
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News Update/Commentary
Unraveling a mystery surrounding embryonic cells
November 18, 2020 Science Daily
Neural crest study results could boost stem cell therapies
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News Update/Commentary
A Hox paradigm for studying protein evolution
November 17, 2020 Science Daily
In a new study, researchers have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Cichlid fishes from African Lake Tanganyika shed light on how organismal diversity arises
November 18, 2020 Science Daily
Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team has investigated this phenomenon of ‘explosive speciation' and provides new insights into the origins of biological diversity.
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Researchers: An Amino Acid Could Have Formed in Space Long Before Stars
November 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”
November 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Post-Modernism Can Strangle Research
November 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Preparing the Public for the Slow Demise of Darwinian Evolution Theory
November 18, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Book
When Doctors Refuse to Believe Evidence
November 17, 2020 Science-Based Medicine
Paul Offit’s new book covers the evidence for many surgeries, medications, and screening tests that have been proven ineffective and harmful yet are still being used by doctors who refuse to follow the science.
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Uh-Oh, Scientists Used Human Genes to Make Monkey Brains Bigger
November 16, 2020 Popular Mechanics
That can't be good.
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Designs on intelligence
October 25, 2005 Current Biology, v.15, n.20
A US court began last month considering whether ‘intelligent design’ has any case for being taught as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, while a new film about penguins is being lauded by the Christian right as evidence of just such a mechanism.
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Study: How saliva is made
November 17, 2020 University of Buffalo
Research reveals the details of how salivary glands collectively produce the constellation of proteins found in saliva, opening the door to important medical research
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The lonely universe: Is life on Earth just a lucky fluke?
November 16, 2020 Astronomy magazine
Life beyond might not exist -- or we just don't know how to find it.
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Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims
November 17, 2020 Symmetry magazine
Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?
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The Trials of Life
December 1, 2005 Scientific American
Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, we have to talk about intelligent design again
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Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard
November 16, 2020 Quanta Magazine
Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.
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Meanwhile: ‘March of the Penguins' through biblical glasses
October 13, 2005 New York Times