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"Geomicrobiology: Low life"
June 10, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.770-773
the boundaries of biology reach farther below Earth's surface than scientists had thought possible
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"The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia"
June 18, 2009 Nature, v.459, p.910-911
fossil finds of early humans in southeast Asia may actually be the remains of an unknown ape ... many palaeoanthropologists have been mistaken
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"Rapid and Accurate Large-Scale Coestimation of Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees"
June 19, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5934, p.1561-1564
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"Is Quantum Mechanics Tried, True, Wildly Successful, and Wrong?"
June 19, 2009 Science, v.324, n.5934, p.1512-1513
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Extreme Mammals
June 19, 2009 American Museum of Natural History
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What Skepticism Reveals about Science
July 1, 2009 Scientific American
a skeptic's journey for truth in science
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"On the Origin of the Nervous System"
July 3, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5936, p.24-26
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "Still Seeking Peking Man"
July 3, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5936, p.22-23
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"When Earth greened over"
July 8, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.161
explosion of animal life could have been triggered by blanket of vegetation
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"Darwin's last laugh"
July 9, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.175
we must look for mental commonalities between humans and other animals to understand the minds of either
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: "Bringing Hominins Back to Life"
July 10, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5937, p.136-139
in the past paleoartists tended to represent early humans as half-chimp and half-human ... the interplay between art and science makes reconstruction a two-way street
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"Primate archaeology"
July 16, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.339-344
if tool use is such an advantage, why is it not evolved to the same degree in other species
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Th
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"Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates"
July 16, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.388-391
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Shared resistance to malaria
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"Global patterns of speciation and diversity"
July 16, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.384-387
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: The road to biodiversity
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"Questions About the Language of God"
July 17, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5938, p.250
a discussion about whether Collins's very public religious views will influence his leadership of NIH played out on blogs
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News Update/Commentary
Prehistoric land under the sea
July 30, 2008 BBC News
it's a landscape no human has even seen, and those who live right beside it had no idea it even existed
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Weak Link: Fossil Darwinius Has Its 15 Minutes
August 1, 2009 Scientific American
skepticism about a fossil cast as a missing link in human ancestry
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Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics
August 1, 2009 Scientific American
Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues?
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The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals
August 1, 2009 Scientific American
paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human, but their demise remains a mystery -- one that gets curiouser and curiouser
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"In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200"
August 6, 2009 Nature, v.460, p.688-689
fifty years before On the Origin of Species, a confusing, tiresome and prescient book laid the foundations of modern evolutionary theory
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"On the Origin of Eukaryotes"
August 7, 2009 Science, v.325, n.5941, p.666-668
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Thanks, Evolution, for Making the Great Building Material Called DNA
August 11, 2009 Discover Magazine
electronic computers are great at what they do, but to accomplish really complicated physical tasks--like building an insect--Erik Winfree says you have to grow them from DNA
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Anna Falling wants the Creation story at the Tulsa Zoo
August 20, 2009 Tulsa Beacon (Oklahoma)
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News Update/Commentary
A step closer to 'synthetic life'
August 20, 2009 BBC News
in what has been described as a step towards the creation of a synthetic cell, scientists have created a new "engineered" strain of bacteria
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Scientists devise new way to modify organisms
August 20, 2009 Nature News
yeast cell surrogate may help scientists to engineer synthetic life
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution of the Human Appendix: A Biological 'Remnant' No More
August 21, 2009 Science Daily
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The Evolution of the Appendix
August 21, 2009 softpedia
it has been around for longer than estimated
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Earliest Complex Organisms Fed by Absorbing Ocean Buffet, Geobiologists Propose
August 21, 2009 Science Daily
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A Grand Bargain Over Evolution
August 22, 2009 New York Times
an underestimation of natural selection’s creative power clouds the vision not just of the intensely religious but also of the militantly atheistic
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Bringing science back into America's sphere
August 22, 2009 Lori Kozlowski
Los Angeles Times — Chris Mooney, author of Unscientific America, talks about the significance of Pluto's demotion from planet, the belief that vaccines are linked to autism, and the role played by religion.
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Epigenetics: Evolutionarily Preserved Mechanism Governs Use of Genes
August 23, 2009 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
New Images Capture Cell's Ribosomes at Work
August 23, 2009 Science Daily
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Report of the Creation Study Committee
June 21, 2000 PCA Historical Center (Presbyterian Church)
report to the 28th General Assembly
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A kinder, gentler American atheism
June 21, 2000 Wofford College
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Book
Exemplar Creation: Credible Origins for the Next Millennium
February 1, 2009 Sunnybrooke Publications
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Book
The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
May 1, 2009 Little, Brown
see also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
'Junk' DNA Proves to Be Highly Valuable
June 12, 2009 Science Daily
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Book
Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe
August 1, 2009 St. Martin's Press (Macmillan)
see also Amazon
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Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
August 1, 2009 Princeton University Press
see also Amazon
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"Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution"
August 13, 2009 Trends in Ecology & Evolution, v.24, n.9, p.515-521
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Peer review changes nothing for intelligent design
August 21, 2009 New Scientist
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Functional Interdependencies Tighten the Noose on Darwinists' 'Received Wisdom'
August 23, 2009 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Naming Evolution's Winners and Losers
August 24, 2009 Science Daily
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On Reducing Irreducible Complexity
August 24, 2009 Science and the Sacred (BioLogos Foundation)
- How can evolution account for the complexity of life on earth today? / BioLogos Foundation
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Diving Deep for a Living Fossil
August 24, 2009 New York Times
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New biography of Francis Crick is released
August 25, 2009 EurekAlert!
book presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century
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Mars Canyon Formed When Plug Was Pulled
August 25, 2009 Yahoo! News
the mechanisms that carved Mars' great canyon complex that dwarfs Arizona's Grand Canyon have been a longstanding mystery, with explanations ranging from massive floods to tectonic processes
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Separating Darwin from Evolution
August 25, 2009 Oregon Faith Report
interview with Benjamin Wiker, author of The Darwin Myth: the Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
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Survival in a post-apocalypse blackout
August 25, 2009 New Scientist, n.2722, p.12
a study that replicated months of darkness after asteroid impacts and massive volcanic eruptions shows how scavenging organisms can help life survive
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Robert Wright’s “Grand Bargain” on Evolution? Maybe Not So Grand After All
August 26, 2009 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)