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Peer-reviewed Paper
Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion
February 19, 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1819366116
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News Update/Commentary
Earth's magnetic north pole is hurtling toward Russia
February 5, 2019 CNN
The north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast that it could be a problem for smartphone maps and navigation systems.
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Land Ho! Visiting a Young Island
January 30, 2019 NASA Earth Expeditions
report of first landing on a volcanic island formed in January 2015
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News Update/Commentary
Bird beaks did not adapt to food types as previously thought
January 22, 2019 Science Daily
the connection between beak shapes and feeding ecology in birds is found much weaker and more complex than expected
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Bizarre deep-sea fish living in Gulf of California with 'virtually no oxygen' puzzles biologists
January 21, 2019 Fox News
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
January 18, 2019 Nature
crustaceans and a tardigrade emerged from a rare mission to drill into a lake sealed off by a kilometre of ice
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Saturn's rings are surprisingly young
January 17, 2019 Astronomy
According to a new study, scientists have found that Saturn’s rings are actually much younger than the planet itself
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Gaps in our genes are more important than we thought
January 16, 2019 Nature
Introns, the bits of non-coding DNA scattered through our genes, may play an important role in cell survival
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Carbonate mud deposited below storm wave base: A critical review
January 16, 2019 The Sedimentary Record
Going beyond the “settling from suspension" models
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News Update/Commentary
Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism
January 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates
January 7, 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813775116
Common descent or common design?
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%
January 3, 2019 Science Daily
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Stunning fossils show pterosaurs had primitive feathers like dinosaurs
December 17, 2018 New Scientist
Two spectacular fossils found in China show that the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs had primitive feathers to help keep them warm, just like many dinosaurs.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur
December 5, 2018 Nature
a new example of exceptional preservation of soft tissue from fossil material
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Bracketing phenogenotypic limits of mammalian hybridization
November 30, 2018 Royal Society Open Science
There is considerable potential for mammalian hybridization between phenotypically disparate taxa.
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Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes
November 14, 2018 Nature
Phylogenomic analyses place Hemimastigophora outside of all established eukaryote supergroups.
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The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals
November 14, 2018 Nature
In spite of what its title suggests, the actual point of this study is that the lives of Neanderthals were at least AS dangerous as those of other populations.
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DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one
November 9, 2018 Gizmodo
warblers appear to be reproductively compatible in spite of alleged millions of years of independent evolution
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Blog Post
Extinction: When evolution is suddenly found to have a purpose
October 17, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Should scientists take a “Hippocratic”-style oath, to reduce dishonesty?
October 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Life forms display an “optimal tradeoff between stability and instability”
October 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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The quantum world remains weird: Remembering the doomed “pilot wave”
October 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Oldest evidence for animals found at 635 mya
October 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Nuclear physicist: True quantum magic only starts with multiple particles
October 15, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Science writer: Academia is in meltdown
October 15, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Cell behaviour can show “purposeful inefficiency”? What next?
October 15, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Co-author: Hawking’s last paper left the information paradox unresolved
October 15, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Jonathan Bartlett: The spiritual side of a digital society
October 14, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Museum director: “Darwin’s theory of evolution not only underpins all biological science, it has an immense predictive power.”
October 14, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Science as tourist studies among the hunter-gatherers
October 14, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Move over Mother Theresa! Wild chimps sometimes share food with others
October 14, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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ID-related posts deleted from friendly Facebook pages as spam
October 13, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Fossil Discontinuities: A Refutation of Darwinism and Confirmation of Intelligent Design
October 13, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Jay Richards: A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
October 13, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Egnor: Does brain stimulation research challenge free will?
October 13, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Michael Egnor: Does your brain construct your conscious reality?
October 13, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Social sciences: The war on empirical fact and objectivity
October 12, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon on why so many sciences seem to be devolving -- not just social sciences
October 12, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Cosmologist: String theory is incompatible with dark energy
October 12, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Organisms found that hover indefinitely between life and death
October 12, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: The selfish gene does not drive cooperation after all
October 11, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon on the failure of selfish gene theory and peacocks, as well as bees
October 11, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Stephen Hawking’s final paper, just released, tackled the “information paradox”
October 11, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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New Scientist: Monkeys “look like” they are domesticating wolves
October 11, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Light-loving cyanobacteria found, improbably, nearly 2,000 feet underground
October 10, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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“Undeniable” author Doug Axe on the recent “directed evolution” Nobel for chemistry
October 10, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Pheromone-sensing gene evolved over 400 million years ago
October 10, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Podcast: Winston Ewert on the Dependency Graph vs. Darwin’s Tree of Life, Part 1
October 10, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Why does more gender equality lead to fewer women in science?
October 10, 2018
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Zircons are back, as a possible source of information re early Earth and origin of life
October 9, 2018 Uncommon Descent
