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Ancient DNA reveals origins of multiple sclerosis in Europe
January 10, 2024 Nature
A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
January 10, 2024 Nature, v.625, p.329-337
we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet, mobility and vegetation cover
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Why did the world’s biggest ape go extinct?
January 10, 2024 Nature
The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki
January 10, 2024 Nature
The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle Pleistocene when it became extinct.
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Book
How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives
January 8, 2024 Nature
REVIEW: The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality by Timothy Recuber (NYU Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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How I fuse Western science with Traditional Knowledge
January 8, 2024 Nature
Indigenous Canadian ecologist Jennifer Grenz abandons colonial restoration dogma to reshape land systems according to community needs.
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Observing mammalian cerebellum development through an evolutionary lens
January 10, 2024 Nature
Tracking the gene-expression profiles of individual cerebellar cells during development in humans, mice and opossums revealed evolutionarily conserved as well as species-specific cellular and molecular features.
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How to Strip Useless Darwinese from Science Articles
January 11, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s a bad habit that adds nothing. Time to acid-wash the Darwinese from science and get back to empirical rigor.
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery -- it’s empathy
January 10, 2024 ars technica
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies
January 10, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
A Report from CELS
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Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
January 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Another War of Words
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AI Will Disrupt Everything -- But Forget the Robot Apocalypse!
January 10, 2024 Mind Matters
It will be a slow, steady, measured disruption, like the one the printing press created
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A Biochemist Begins To Sense the Limits of Materialism
January 9, 2024 Mind Matters
William Reville seems both confident and uncertain at the same time that science can crack the problem of consciousness
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The Theory of Evolution in the context of the divine revelations
January 8, 2024 Australasian Muslim Times
the Darwin Theory was considered as an offence on human dignity by scholars of the monotheistic religions. As a counter-reaction the monotheistic religions developed an antagonistic approach to anything that represented any notion of “evolution”
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Permian marine mass extinction linked to volcanism-induced anoxia
December 29, 2023 phys.org
Mass extinctions are rapid global decreases in Earth's biodiversity, with five key events identified over the planet's history, arguably the most famous of which occurred ~66 million years ago, which brought the reign of dinosaurs to an end.
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The Evolution of Photosynthesis Documented by Thylakoids in Fossil Cyanobacteria
January 6, 2024 Astrobiology
Researchers at the University of Liège (ULiège) have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old. These structures, called thylakoid membranes, are the oldest ever discovered.
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Chaos theory and the end of physics
January 8, 2024 iai News
How disorder could unify our theories
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The UFO Movement Sees Otherworldly Growth
January 8, 2024 Wall Street Journal
Believers come out of the shadows after congressional hearings; ‘we’re not the people with the tinfoil hats anymore’
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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
January 8, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.
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News Update/Commentary
How did the bushpig cross the strait?
January 8, 2024 Science Daily
A great puzzle in African mammal biogeography solved by genomics
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Engineers Follow Inspiring Creatures
January 10, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
From tiny to mighty, living creatures inspire human technology
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Childhood in the Ice Age -- What Was It Like?
January 8, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Hidden Figure Behind Neo-Darwinism -- Hugo de Vries
January 9, 2024 Answers in Genesis
An examination of occult Marxist indoctrination in our schools
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Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem -- Explained
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price
January 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Logician Kurt Gödel Believed in Life After Death
January 8, 2024 Mind Matters
He saw human folly as an opportunity to reform and learn, because our souls are immortal whether we like it or not
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What Was It Like To Grow Up in the Paleolithic Era?
January 5, 2024 Mind Matters
We are learning much about our ancestors’ lives from the less highly publicized finds
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Why Don't We Hear So Much About “False Information" Any More?
January 6, 2024 Mind Matters
The new censorship target, “disinformation,” means something profoundly different, and the difference is scary
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Video
Atheist Scientist Defends James Tour and Debunks Lee Cronin's Assembly Theory
January 5, 2024 YouTube
Harvard Debate Review
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Video
Can Mathematics Explain Evolution?
January 8, 2024 YouTube
If life is a vast space of possibilities, then mathematics can engage with biology. Statistics analyze biological data, and mathematical models improve biological theories. But could the mathematics of biology touch fundamental realities?
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Video
Debating Design
January 6, 2024 YouTube
Subboor Ahmad
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The missing conversation
January 5, 2024 Aeon
To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin a new dialogue
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Convergence in carnivorous pitcher plants reveals a mechanism for composite trait evolution
January 4, 2024 Science v.383, n.6678, p.108-113
Traits are constantly changing in populations, but the emergence of a trait that provides a new function is a rarer occurrence. Two studies now examine how such traits arise.
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Evolutionary paths to new phenotypes
January 4, 2024 Science v.383, n.6678, p.27-28
Ecological model systems inform on innovative traits in plants and animals
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Blog Post
Bayes’ Theorem
January 5, 2024
A while back one of my students, “Frank,” a real smarty-pants, started babbling about something called Bayes’ theorem.
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Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins
January 4, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor -- a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth.
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What You Don’t Know About Sperm
January 3, 2024 nautil.us
A remarkable tale of evolution.
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After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?
January 2, 2024 Universe Today
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News Update/Commentary
The snail or the egg?
January 4, 2024 Science Daily
How marine snails switched from laying eggs to giving birth
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News Update/Commentary
The evolution of photosynthesis better documented thanks to fossil cyanobacteria
January 5, 2024 Science Daily
They push back the fossil record of thylakoids by 1.2 billion years and provide new information on the evolution of cyanobacteria which played a crucial role in the accumulation of oxygen on the early Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution is not as random as previously thought
January 8, 2024 Science Daily
the evolutionary trajectory of a genome may be influenced by its evolutionary history, rather than determined by numerous factors and historical accidents
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What does the center of a black hole look like?
January 3, 2024 Big Think
Here's why the answer may forever elude scientists.
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What scientists get wrong about black holes
January 3, 2024 iai News
The black hole singularity is misunderstood
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Can ChatGPT Reason?
January 4, 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Will science be able to explain consciousness?
January 4, 2024 Irish TImes
There is every reason to believe that consciousness will eventually yield to scientific analysis just as the general nature of life yielded
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There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct
January 4, 2024 New Scientist
In the largest survey yet of AI researchers, a majority say there is a non-trivial risk of human extinction due to the possible development of superhuman AI
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Blog Post
Scientific American proposes policing the language of astronomy
January 7, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
to make it “beautiful and elegant”, as well as “inclusive” and non-triggering
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Vast submerged area near Australia may once have hosted 500,000 people
January 2, 2024 New Scientist
An area of the seabed north of Australia has been mapped in detail for the first time, revealing that large numbers of people could have lived there until it was inundated by rising seas
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Supernova neutrinos could break physics -- if we can make sense of them
January 3, 2024 New Scientist
Neutrinos produced inside an exploding star could betray exotic particles that would lead to a deeper theory of physics. Will our detectors be ready in time for the next nearby supernova?
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New DNA Sequences of the Y Chromosome Refute Human-Ape Evolution
January 4, 2024 Institute for Creation Research